{"id":82665,"date":"2026-02-05T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/architect-proposes-alternative-to-portelli-plans-for-former-balzan-pasta-factory\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:56:00","slug":"architect-proposes-alternative-to-portelli-plans-for-former-balzan-pasta-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/architect-proposes-alternative-to-portelli-plans-for-former-balzan-pasta-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Architect proposes alternative to Portelli plans for former Balzan pasta factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Architect proposes alternative to Portelli plans for former Balzan pasta factory<br \/>\nAn architect has put forward an alternative vision for the former Balzan pasta factory after it emerged that developer Joseph Portelli had filed an application to demolish the landmark building.Theo Cachia, a Malta Architect Awards winner, shared his proposed design for the Macaroni Premier factory on Triq in-Naxxar, Balzan, in a social media post earlier&#8230;<br \/>\nRSS Feed Source: Times of Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/article\/architect-propose-alternative-portelli-plan-balzan-pasta-factory.1123649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Architect proposes alternative to Portelli plans for former Balzan pasta factory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architect proposes alternative to Portelli plans for former Balzan pasta factory An architect has put forward an alternative vision for the former Balzan pasta factory after it emerged that developer Joseph Portelli had filed an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}