Rob Chiu Niall O’Brien, who recently won a string of awards for the very lovely Olafur Arnalds & Talos film - A Dawning, made this some years ago. I can’t help but nearly tear up every time I watch this one. It’s like being softly hit with a sledgehammer.
SIMON FROMMENWILERWorking, living, professional, personal, family - all at once, on a tiny plot in the middle of Strasbourg that nobody else wanted. The whole thing works like a Loosian Raumplan: plan and section interlock, the two worlds stay clearly separate - their own stairs, their own heights - yet each still benefits from the other. A contemporary townhouse - spatial acrobatics in a beautiful custom-made suit.
