August Results: What Changed at Hotel Montero A month ago, we promised to show the process as it is—including those stages that rarely make it into pretty photo reports. August was exactly like that: no dramatic shots of the finished result, but three concrete steps without which moving forward would be impossible.

Foundation of Trust: Why We Reinforce Walls Where Others Cut Corners There are solutions that are visible immediately. And then there are those hidden behind plaster and wallpaper—and it is precisely these that determine whether a building will stand for fifty years or begin to crack after five. When we undertook the reconstruction of Montero, we faced a choice familiar to anyone who has ever renovated an old building. You can just skim the surface: level, paint, hang nice lighting, and report on the job done. Or you can stop, look inside the walls, and ask: will they withstand the next half-century? We chose the second path.

How We Searched for the Hotel Montero Building—and Why It Turned Out Harder Than It Seems When we say "reconstruction," it sounds like a ready-made solution. As if someone simply took a building and started fixing it. In reality, this solution had a beginning—and that beginning took more time than the project idea itself. Before the first crew appeared on-site, there was a long history of searching, doubts, and rejecting options that only seemed suitable at first glance.