About Trident Park
A green business hub in the Central Business District
From brewery to business campus
The journey to Trident Park
In the 1950s, under the guidance of architect and managing director Lewis V. Farrugia, the newly-formed Simonds-Farsons Cisk Limited inaugurated a new brewery site in Mriehel. The same attention to detail and quality that made Farsons beer legendary now ensures every Trident Park office meets the highest standards.
Through the clever strategy of Mr Anthony Miceli-Farrugia, Simonds-Farsons Cisk Limited branched out into the catering and importation industries, pushing the boundaries of business beyond the Mriehel brewery. In 1984, work started on a fresh brewery development master plan, and in 1990, a fully automated brewing process plant took the place of the old Farsons Brewery, allowing it to age gracefully into shutdown.
However, the old Farsons Brewery had plenty of work left to do, and in 2018, Trident Estates PLC undertook the mammoth task of rejuvenating and restoring the old Farsons brewery into a BREEAM-certified green business hub.
Achievements and highlights
22,000m²
Total gross floor area
Approximate area across seven low-rise, mixed-use buildings
15,747m²
Office space
Total area designated for office use upon completion
83%
Occupancy rate
As of April 2024, 83% of available office space has been leased
55%
Carbon footprint reduction
Reduction in operational carbon emissions compared to Malta’s prevailing standards
43%
Site area developed
The remaining area comprises landscaped gardens and open public spaces
10
International awards
For excellence in design, heritage restoration, sustainability, and innovation
From the 1950s to the future
From the concrete fins shading the windows to the landscaped courtyards, Trident Park’s redevelopment continues the site’s history, and builds upon its design as one of the earliest examples of concrete-reinforced Art Deco industrial buildings of the twentieth century.
This emphasis on preserving Trident Park, and respecting the 70 years of industrial operation that is its heritage, has created a unique opportunity within the Central Business District to work within a historical site that has retained its context and built a future around its past.
Work from the future
Focus on work, leave the rest behind
80% of your business success depends on location and environment. Make both work for you.
Our goal is to provide rental offices in a premium business location, and take landlord-level care of our tenants, leaving them to focus on what they do best while we focus on all the other details. Our offices are move-in ready, equipped with everything a business needs to thrive, and in an environment developed for a better way of working
- On-call maintenance
- Guaranteed parking
- Move in support
- Central Business District
Built on responsibility
Trident Park was developed around a clear commitment to environmental performance, social wellbeing, and sound governance. Every part of the project reflects an effort to preserve heritage while meeting modern standards for efficiency and transparency.
Environmental
Designed to BREEAM Excellent standards, achieving significant reductions in carbon footprint and energy use through natural ventilation, daylighting, and efficient building systems.
Social
Created as a healthy, balanced place to work, with open green spaces, an on-site gym, and childcare facilities that support daily life.
Governance
Managed with integrity and long-term vision by Trident Estates plc, ensuring consistent quality and accountability across the development.
Awards
Local and international recognition
Over the years, Trident Park has received multiple local and international awards recognising its architectural excellence, sustainable design, and sensitive restoration of a Maltese landmark.
Winners
2024
- Building Awards – International Project of the Year : Winner
- The Chicago Athenaeum/The European Centre: International Architecture Award: Winner
- Swiss BLT Built Design Awards – Architectural Design – Mixed-Use Building: Winner
- World Architecture Festival Awards – Best Use of Colour prize: Winner
2023
- MASP (Malta Architectural and Spatial Planning) Rehabilitation & Conservation Award: Winner – The Brewhouse
- XVII Din l-Art Ħelwa Architectural Heritage Awards: esteemed Judge Maurice Caruana Curran Award recognizing its exceptional quality, historical significance, and community impact
- XVII Din l-Art Ħelwa Architectural Heritage Awards: Prix d’Honneur for the Regeneration of an Area
- Architecture Photography Masterprize – Industrial Exteriors: Winner
- The Green Apple Environment Award for Beautiful Buildings: Silver Winner, for its commitment to environmental sustainability
2022
- World Architecture Festival X Award – Future Projects – Re-Use: Winner
Commendation / Special Mention
2024
- International Civic Trust Award: Highly Commended
- Architizer A+ Award – Commercial Adaptive Reuse Projects: Special Mention
2023
- MASP (Malta Architectural and Spatial Planning) Commercial and Public Buildings Award: Special Mention – Trident Park
- Architecture Photography Masterprize – Industrial Interiors: Honourable Mention
- Architecture MasterPrize – Mixed Use: Honourable Mention
Finalist / Shortlisted
2024
- Premju Galizia Heritage Preservation Award: Finalist
- World Architecture Festival Awards – Completed Buildings: Creative Reuse: Shortlist
2023
- The PLAN Award – Completed Projects – Office & Business: Shortlist
2022
- World Architecture Festival Awards – Future Projects – Commercial Mixed-Use: Shortlist
In collaboration with ritchie*studio
The architectural vision for Trident Park was developed with Ritchie Studio (formerly Ian Ritchie Architects), whose role was to turn a complex brief into a clear plan for adaptive reuse and contemporary workplace design. Working with the site’s listed fabric, the team retained and refined the original Art Deco frontage and re-planned the interiors to create functional, light-filled spaces fit for today’s tenants.
Behind the historic façade, Ritchie Studio set out the campus as a series of seven office buildings around six landscaped courtyards. This arrangement brings daylight deep into the plan, creates natural wayfinding, and gives every building a direct relationship with green space. Key industrial elements were carefully preserved and re-purposed, while new components such as solar-control fins, opening windows and thermally active floor slabs were integrated as part of the architecture rather than added on.
In collaboration with ritchie*studio
“Farsons have acted as both pioneers and guardians of Malta’s heritage and their significant investment in the architectural and landscape thinking behind this ambitious project should certainly enhance Malta’s burgeoning reputation as a centre for international business.”
Ritchie Studio’s contribution is visible in the clarity of the masterplan, the craft of the detailing, and the quiet efficiency of the building systems. The result is a workplace that respects the original brewery’s character while delivering a calm, high-performing environment for modern business.
Our history
before Trident Park
In the late 1920s, L. Farrugia and Sons, colloquially known as Farsons, built a brewery in Hamrun. Lewis Victor Farrugia, an architect by profession, was looking for further business diversification from the industrial gas business.
A new chapter
He found it in the first locally-brewed beer: Farsons Pale Ale, launched only a few months after the final stone at the Hamrun brewery was placed, opening the business book to a new chapter. Building on this success, a year later L. Farrugia and Sons merged with H & G Simonds, legendary brewers who’d been importing beer into the Maltese islands since 1880.
This was Simonds Farsons Limited, a new step towards a grand industrial adventure.
From competition to collaboration
However, they had competition – a year after the successful launch of Farsons Pale Ale, a competing local brewery, the Malta Export Brewery, launched Cisk Pilsner.
For years, Cisk and Farsons Pale Ale competed heavily against each other, until a post-war merger united them into one formidable entity: Simonds-Farsons Cisk Limited, whose first order of business was building and inaugurating a new brewery in Mriehel.
From innovation to legacy
Designed and developed by the then-managing director, Lewis V. Farrugia, and with an eye on the market demand at the time, Farsons Brewery opened in 1950 as the first of its kind – a concrete-reinforced Art Deco building that spanned several metres of prime Mriehel real estate.
It continued to meet and exceed brewing standards until Simonds-Farsons opened their second, fully-automated brewery in Hamrun, allowing the old brewery to age into retirement.
From brewery to business hub
However, its story was far from over, and after a long period of rest, Trident Estates, a premium property investment company, put into motion the plans that would reimagine the old Farsons brewery into a modern, standard-setting business hub.
And the rest is history yet to be written.
About Trident Estates plc
Trident Park is the flagship development by Trident Estates, a premium property investment company specialising in high-yield portfolio assets and long-term vision planning. Trident Estates develops new commercial enterprises out of unique, existing architecture, and count among their portfolio items the Fortizza eatery and 18th century battery in Sliema, Trident House in Qormi, and several franchised restaurant operations in some of Malta’s key locations.