Articles by Pilar Caballero

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Re-Tale Store / Metropolitan Studio of Architecture

April 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Metropolitan studio of Architecture (MSA) collaborated with WARDA, a clothing brand, on designing their new stores, which are planned in various cities of Pakistan. ‘Re-tale’ is the second flagship store in this series. The first store was designed in  Peshawar, Pakistan named ‘Crafting a Retail’. Each flagship store is designed keeping in mind the idea that it will serve as a rejuvenating device for the brand. MSA has taken this collaboration as an opportunity to look closely at the retail culture of Pakistan in general and WARDA retail strategies in specific. These explorations helped in developing an overall thematic of the brand, where context becomes the central focus of the aesthetics of the flagships.

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Ibiuna House MP / DT Estúdio

April 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Located in Ibiuna, 90Km away from São Paulo, Brazil, the design for this house represented a big challenge.  The client´s desire to have a house integrated with the surrounding nature led to a plot with several native grown trees. Another important factor was the downhill inclination of the original landscape from the access lane to the end of the plot, giving access to the existing lake.

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Germina Foundation / b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

April 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Germina Foundation is an organization that works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion, caring for them, monitoring and reinforcing their education, and providing educational support for their training and future entry into the labor market. This monitoring process, which aims to build a bond by engaging participants through complementary programs from the moment they arrive as young children up until their entry into the workforce, needed to have a space where it could accommodate its three key age groups in three areas that could be either connected or independent. The program for the building also had to house the organization’s administrative staff. Improving the neighborhood’s social fabric, community action, and collaboration with local organizations through workshops, courses, and other social activities are also among the foundation’s aims. 

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Elancourt Music School / Opus 5 architectes

April 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

The new Élancourt Music School has taken up residence in the former ecumenical center of the Sept Mares neighborhood, one of the focal points founding the new town of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines. The building was originally a house of worship, a simple, without ornament and inward-looking construction owing to the peace and quiet required by its function. Philippe Deslandes built it between 1974 and 1977, with the desire that it embody the qualities of simplicity, modularity and anonymity.

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Private Residence in Garðabær / Trípólí

March 31, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

This project entailed a complete renovation and expansion of a family home in Garðabær, a suburb of Reykjavík. The house was built in 1966 as a simple modernist unit with a flat roof and was extended a decade later. In 1994, a pitched roof was added on top of the original flat roof and the exterior walls were clad with Steni façade panels, leaving not much of the original architecture visible.

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Teaching and Learning Building / Make Architects

March 30, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

New Make building indicates step change in building design for the University of Nottingham

The new 6,200m2 Teaching and Learning Building (TLB) was designed for the University of Nottingham by Make Architects to help meet its 2020 vision, raise its international profile and provide a step change in the way education is delivered by creating an flexible space that deliberately blurs the boundaries between study, socialising and work.

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Modern Urban Apartment in Tel Aviv / Studio Perri Interior Design

March 29, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

A young couple moved from central tel aviv to a bigger and quieter apartment in north tel aviv and invited Studio PERRI to plan and design their new home.  The apartment is 135 m² in size and includes a living room, kitchen, dining area, balcony, 4 rooms, 2 bathrooms, storage room and a small room foe the cats.  Before the renovation The apartment was divided into two units – a large apartment and a separate small unit. The building is old from the 70’s and the apartment had never been renovated before. The tenants dreamt of a spacious and full of light apartment that would provide an accurate response to their needs.  The guidelines were to create a modern and minimalist design that balances beauty and functionality. 

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Paddock House / Archterra Architects

March 29, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Paddock house sits exposed cross-slope, in a field of rye grass amongst grazing cattle and kangaroos with distant valley views to the north. The house connects to these views via a series of framed apertures in the volume of the house.