(taken from www.architectural-review.com)

Sandra Barclay, co-founder of Barclay & Crousse in Peru, has won the Architect of the Year award for her work on Peru’s Museo de Sitio de Paracas, designed by Barclay & Crousse, which has been designed to blend into its harsh desert surroundings as well as withstand them. The original museum was almost totally destroyed in the 2007 earthquake, and the design of its replacement had to preserve a memory of the former structure.

The judges commended the building’s simplicity and strength in a challenging context, commenting that in the face of lack of control onsite and limited resources, ‘the architects responded to the lack of context with a design that is both robust and simple, yet powerful, and even its man-made imperfection adds value to the building’.

We are very happy to announce that our film Piling Up won "Best Architecture Short Film" at the latest edition of ArqFilmFest.

Pilin Up was part of a series of 7 short documentaries commissioned by the National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA) and produced by Estudio Palma that were presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012). More here

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