After 30 years in a turn-of-the-century Porfirian villa, the renowned
contemporary art gallery OMR decided to move to a new location. The
chosen site was an existing brutalist building called Sala Margolin,
originally dedicated to the sale of records and books. The building's
design consisted of a single large space covered by a coffered concrete
roof slab under which the different sections of the store were organized
by subtle changes in floor level. The roof was supported around the
perimeter and by four slender concrete columns framing a central
skylight, the most important light source for the space.