架构师提供的文本描述。经过多年的佛朗哥独裁统治和英国半岛直布罗陀多年的孤立，与西班牙的边界变得更加温和。直布罗陀政府开始开垦和解放用于公共和商业用途的军事财产。

Text description provided by the architects. After years of Franco’s dictatorship and difficult years of isolations of British peninsula Gibraltar, the border with Spain became softer. The government of Gibraltar started the reclamation and liberating military property for public and commercial use.

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(C)菲利普·德里森

里岑建筑师受克里多和蒙塔古集团的委托，设计了中城区，他们自己将堡垒的国王堡垒部分封闭起来。首席部长被这个想法迷住了，这就是国王的堡垒最终被解放的贫民窟，废弃的，被毁的建筑，重新获得骄傲的新面孔的方式。

Ritzen Architects were commissioned by Credo and Montagu Group to design Mid Town District to which they enclosed, on their own, the King’s Bastion part of the fortress. The Chief Minister was charmed by this idea and that’s the way King’s Bastion was finally liberated of slum, abandoned, ruined buildings and got back new face of proud.

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(C)菲利普·德里森

国王城堡的重建是一个清晰的建筑理念：对带围护结构的堡垒进行了彻底的清理和翻新，并将新结构作为一个由不锈钢制成的银色珠宝盒，由复合混凝土制成，长而优雅的腿，被放置在空置的内场中。新旧建筑之间的空间被玻璃化的橘红色覆盖着，这使得日光沿着美丽的石墙落下，并将光线分散到整个建筑中。

The reconstruction of the King’s Bastion is realized as a clear architectural concept: the bastion with casemates has been completely cleaned and renovated and the new structure has been placed in emptied inner court as a silver jewelry box of stainless steel with long, elegant legs made of composite concrete. The space between new and old structure is covered with glazed orangery which allows daylight to fall in along beautiful stone walls and spread the light throughout the building.

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(C)菲利普·德里森

这座复杂的住宅休闲中心内有两家电影院和溜冰环，在银盒里，在内庭下面有一个保龄球中心。此外，还有其他娱乐活动，如迪斯科舞厅、餐厅和咖啡厅，都放在一楼和一楼的地下室里。自开业以来，当地居民和游客也对它进行了密集的参观。

The complex houses leisure center which contains two cinemas and ice skating ring in the silver box, and underneath, in the inner court a bowling center takes place.  Additional entertainment functions, disco, restaurant and café are placed in the Bastion on the ground and first  floor. Since it is opened it has been intensively visited by locals and tourists too.