Look! The house we found on dwell.com seems transplanted from an avant-garde district of Tokyo! Actually, it is placed in a tiny town of Landskrona, Sweden, among traditional terraced cottages with their orange-tiled roofs.This project is a great example of how to insert modern structures in old buildings successfully. It’s quite surprising to see a modern, white structure inserted here, but, as you can see from the photos below, the architects succeeded to fulfill their statement of “minimalism mirage”. They brought together old and new without compromises. When I first saw the project, I felt the house behaves like a ghost with its all-white facade among colored cottages, even if this immateriality is a common trend in Scandinavian surroundings. This is enhanced by its transparency, too: windows and terraces pierce its monolithic shape, and see-through glass and metal grilles avoid making the modernist statement arrogantly emphatic.
