Mystery House

On one occasion during my recent trip to Switzerland and Italy, I found myself without my camera. So coming across a contemporary concrete house in the middle of the small village of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collina_d%27Oro#Agra">Agra, Collina d'Oro</a> (CH), I had no choice but to snap a few photos with the camera on my old-school (not smart) phone.<br /><br /><img alt="Photo065.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Photo065.jpg" title="Cell phone photo of concrete house" /><br /><br />If the house were not located in its setting I may not have payed much attention to it—that's probably why I had left my camera in the car. But it's so different than the old buildings around it, both in terms of style and in how the house addresses the street; instead of meeting the street it is set back from it beyond a stone wall and lawn.<br /><br /><img alt="Photo064.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Photo064.jpg" title="Cell phone photo of concrete house" /><br /><br />So does anybody know the story behind this house, who designed it, who might live there? For reference, it's the construction site smack in the middle of <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/PHPkF">this Google Maps aerial</a>.<br /><br /><img alt="Photo066.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/Photo066.jpg" title="Cell phone photo of concrete house" /><br /><br /><b>Update 10.09:</b> Thanks to Hans for emailing me the name of the architects: <a href="http://www.giraudiwettstein.ch/progetti/edifici-privati/76_cb.html">Giraudi Wettstein</a> (click link for project page on their website).

Mystery House

On one occasion during my recent trip to Switzerland and Italy, I found myself without my camera. So coming across a contemporary concrete h...

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