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Gigon/Guyer, Museum Liner, Appenzell, 1998

647. Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal /// House in Cap Ferret /// Lège Cap Ferret, Arcachon Bay, France /// 1998

Josep Lluís Mateo - Deutsche Bundesbank, Chemnitz 2004. Via, 2, photos © Jan Bitter. 

Herzog De Meuron - Blue house, the firm’s first new construction, Oberwil 1980. Via, 2, and most to OfHouses, with scans from here. Photos © Margherita Spiluttini.

Valerio Olgiati - Céline flagship store, Miami 2018. Via dezeen, photos © Mikael Olsson.

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Doherty House, County Donegal, Ireland

This rural house features many familiar elements of the Irish country house however an abstract quality is introduced through a meticulous reduction in expression. The facades reveal little of the internal arrangement since ‘all the wall openings are equal and each elevation is the same’.

The elevation treatment can be compared with Monadnock’s Katendrecht Residence in Rotterdam. Despite the difference in context and building type both projects present an ‘anonymous’ facade, deliberately autonomous from the internal layout and composed of regular vertical windows on a rendered facade