Editing Renzo Piano (section)

===Valletta City Gate and Parliament House, Malta (2011–2015)===
The 'City Gate' project in [[Valletta]], Malta was the complete reorganization of the principal entrance to the Maltese capital of Valletta. It included a massive [[City Gate (Valletta)|City Gate]] through the [[Fortifications of Valletta|16th-century city walls]], an open-air theatre 'machine' within the ruins of the former [[Royal Opera House, Valletta|Royal Opera House]], and the construction of a new Parliament building. The gate project was controversial, though the old gate it replaced was only built in the 1960s, in the Italian rationalist style. The "theater machine" is particularly unusual; the original idea was that in summertime a steel portable theater with stage and wings and a thousand seats can be installed inside the ruins of the 19th century opera house, which had been destroyed in [[World War II]]. It has its own stage equipment and technology for reproducing the acoustics of a traditional opera house. When performances are not taking place, the "machine" was meant to turn back into a public square and gathering place. The [[Parliament House (Malta)|Parliament House]] (2011–2015) is a mixture of modern technique and technology with the massive stone look of the city's old walls.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rpbw.com/project/86/la-valletta-city-gate/ |title=Renzo Piano Building Workshop Site |access-date=17 February 2017}}</ref>