Otero-Pailos Studio

New Holland Island is an 8-hectare monumental ensemble of Federal importance nestled in the historic center of St. Petersburg, Russia, a World Heritage Site. Jorge was the Preservation Architect, in collaboration with Work Architecture Company, Master Planner and Design Architect. Clients: Dasha Zukhova and Roman Abramovitz. Winner of the American Institute of Architects Merit Award (2013). 

Otero-Pailos Studio contributed the preservation vision and

expertise for the team led by Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Architects to

adaptively reuse the Telluride Transfer Warehouse into a new center

for the arts in Telluride, Colorado. This multi-use center will anchor

the Telluride Arts District in the heart of the town nestled in the

San Juan Mountains.  Engaging the historic stone shell of the 1906

Transfer Warehouse, LTL’s design proposes a new, multi-layered, timber

volume set within the existing walls, maximizing the interplay of the

old and the new. Primary entry, circulation and social spaces exist

between these stone and wood walls. Key elements of the project

include the Great Hall at the entrance with a retractable skylight, a

lower-level screening and music venue, two levels of flexible

exhibition spaces and an expansive rooftop café and bar with views

toward the dramatic mountain setting. The project is designed with art

as a focus for enriching culture, learning and social engagement.

Otero-Pailos Studio contributed the preservation vision for the team

led by Annabelle Selldorf Architects, which included Cowie Montgomery

Architects, Arup, Vogt Landscape Architects, and Martin Ashley

Architects. Ours was one of six teams shortlisted in the competition

to restore and renovate Clandon Park, Giacomo Leoni's 18th century

masterpiece of English Palladianism, after the National Trust property

received heavy damage from a fire in 2015.  We designed new flexible

art exhibition spaces and visitor facilities within the existing

building footprint.

Budget: 35 million British Pounds.

Photographs are all that remain of Moholy-Nagy’s Master House at the Bauhaus. The invited competition called for the reconstruction of the house based on the photographs. We proposed to print out photos at full scale and in three dimensions, including the printer’s dot matrix as part of reconstruction. We turned the black ink dots into laser-cut holes on white metal panels.  Collaboration with Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch.