Articles by Pilar Caballero

LPS Residence is located on a large property on the Mornington Peninsula. The new home was designed to occupy the site of the original house that the family had outgrown. The architecture is conceived as 3 individually articulated building forms: the sleeping, living, and dining zones, which are clustered around a central entry courtyard.

Nanshan Junning Resort is located in a valley in Central Anhui with a 10-meter elevation difference, featuring a mountain slope, bamboo forest, access road, and seasonal stream. Buildings are arranged along the terrain: linear against the mountain, embracing the bamboo grove, and loosely scattered for public functions near the road. Guided by the concept of “Taming the Water”, the mountain stream is slowed and channeled to form terraced cascading water features. A pool-shaped building with a water roof is set at the original pond to create a submerged residence, while a crescent-shaped pool at the stream’s source forms a water curtain as the garden’s “Water Eye”.

Located in Lane Cove, Sydney, this house draws deeply from the site’s layered history and natural surrounds to create a home that feels both grounded and elevated within the rich natural landscape. Lane Cove’s origins lie in agriculture, and post-indigenous occupation, these were further reinforced through a series of land grants that defined its now-familiar suburban subdivision patterns.

Nestled within the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Today Design Workspace is located within a 12-story office block in the vibrant neighbourhood of Collingwood. Within this space, a 900m² blank canvas has been meticulously shaped to foster collaboration and innovation for the digital agency Today Design. It stands as a beacon of inclusivity, welcoming clients, collaborators, and their team. A defining feature of this project is its unwavering commitment to sustainability.

Our task here was to create a contemporary space within an existing one that dates back to 1960. The town’s municipal gymnasium and theatre formed a historical whole, but the site’s sports facilities needed to be modernized to host major competitions and cultural events. A desire for architectural coherence and respect for the existing built heritage guided our approach. So, we preserved the stone wall that gave visual structure to the whole site and that now serves as a link between periods of time. We also kept the original entrance portico, which remains the landmark it always has been for the town’s inhabitants. The forms of the gymnasium’s facade were borrowed from those of the existing theatre. With its tall, vertical openings and its solid sections alternating with glazed portions, this sports center – called “le SPOT” (for “le Site Polyvalent Omnisport de Thionville”) – extends the theatre as if the two buildings were created at the same time and as if the new edifice were honouring the site’s heritage while placing it firmly in modernity.

For an architect, every project begins as an act of reading – reading the land, the light, the materials, the intentions, and even the intangible: that which dwells between space and spirit. To interpret the world and then translate it into form may be the most delicate and enduring exercise in architecture. And when that translation approaches the sacred, the gesture takes on another dimension – a search, through matter, for a language that ascends.

Overlooking Victoria’s Southern Ocean near Anglesea surf beach, this minimal two-storey house draws on the simple modernism of 1950s–60s coastal homes. Designed for a couple with extended family, it balances retreat with shared experience.

Linpan settlements represent the quintessential agrarian lifestyle of the Chengdu Plain. Herbal Fragrant Cottage is located in the fields of Xindu District, Chengdu, resembling a pastoral painting. Farmland serves as the backdrop, with farmhouses and courtyards scattered throughout. The crisscrossing paths make it easy for people to feel as if they are stepping into a painting at any moment.