The Tigné Point project is Malta’s largest mixed-use development and spearheads the regeneration of this area, which is opposite Valletta across Marsamxett Harbour. It provides apartments, offices, retail and community facilities in a vibrant mix of traditional and contemporary architecture and includes the restoration of the historic Fort Tigné and its barracks.

Client MIDI plc appointed GMW, together with agents Colliers CRE, as consultants for the internal layout and design of the retail mall with the brief of ensuring that it met the highest international standards.

The three-storey retail mall is arranged around a spacious atrium that focuses activity, creating buzz and excitement.

The atrium is stepped and elliptical in form, providing good sight lines between floors and has escalators and lifts to encourage movement between levels.

A planning condition for the development was the retention on site of the football pitch of local team, Sliema Wanderers. This pitch is now sited on top of the retail mall and, as it effectively occupies the whole roof and two of the three retail levels are below ground, there is little opportunity to bring daylight into the building. To engender a more natural feel to the retail environment, a computer-controlled lighting programme simulates changing levels of daylight in the atrium.