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Rudin House
Leymen, Alsace, France
£1,175,000 approx (€1,300,000) Introduction
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This is, in our opinion, one of the very finest and most covetable modern houses in Europe. Known as the Rudin House (or Project 128), it was designed by the internationally acclaimed Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, and built in 1993.
The Rudin House's deliberately simple silhouette has been likened to a child's drawing of a house. It is finished in raw concrete, and is raised up on a platform, almost like a plinth supporting a sculpture. The architects themselves describe its shape as a "heavy and archetypal volume,
that seems to be suspended above the gentle slope, demonstrating its
desire to be perceived as an abstract object".
Almost all excess ornamentation has been dispensed with. Rather than spoil the façade with guttering, for instance, the architects devised a metal drip strip that guides the rainwater into a pond on the western side.
The house is located in the Haut-Rhin département, in the north-east corner of France. It is surrounded by fruit trees and meadows.
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 1991. Their most notable work in the UK is the Tate Modern gallery in London.
Contact:
Matt Gibberd at The Modern House
mg@themodernhouse.net
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