Villa Castro in Naxxar has been shortlisted in this year’s World Architecture Festival Awards, the largest architectural award ceremony in the world. The Palazzo is a collaboration between Architecture Project and Jens Bruenslow, and has been nominated for the New & Old – Completed Buildings category. 

As the name implies, the villa combines classic Maltese Palazzo characteristics with a generous helping of modern architecture, and the result is absolutely gorgeous. The 700 square metre, 9-bedroomed Palazzo comes with under-floor heating, library and games room (to name but a few features). Villa Castro went up for sale last September, and it can be yours for a cool €2.7 million. Definitely #HouseGoals material right here.

Villa Castro is up against 16 other architectural projects from around the world in the World Architecture Festival Awards’ New & Old category, and here’s what the competition looks like.

1. The University Hospital of Montreal, Canada

2. Institute of Civil Engineering, Belgium

3. Abdullah Gül Presidential Museum and Library, Turkey

4. Wake Space Up Office Space, Vietnam

5. Kauri Timber Building, New Zealand

6. Spreehalle, Berlin

7. Royal Shakespeare Company – The Other Place, Stratford Upon Avon, UK

8. Esselen Clinic, Johannesburg, South Africa

9. KL Sports City Stadium, Stage 1, Malaysia

10. Grand Pera, Istanbul

11. Le Carreau du Temple Cultural Centre, Paris

12. Guangming Village, Zhaotong, China

13. The Glasshouse at Goonoo Goonoo Station, Australia

14. Printemps Haussmann, Paris

15. Market Hall, Malmö, Sweden

16. Magdalen College Library, Oxford, UK

Tag a friend who’d love to live in Villa Castro… even if they probably can’t afford it.

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David Grech Urpani

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