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© fotoember-iStock Editorial/Getty Images From the Yellow House to the Kirchner Museum, these buildings offer a vision of what Swiss architectural style means. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Yellow House Valerio Olgiati’s redesign of a 19th-century building in Flims constitutes a radical transformation of its character. Placed directly by the curving roadside, the Yellow House enjoys maximum impact on the cultural landscape of a town otherwise hidden from immediate view. This potential is fulfilled by the striking presence of the restored building: a timeless, deeply textured surface bearing the marks of construction, painted overall in white to emerge as a gloriously abstract volume. Its name the Yellow House is the last vestige of its past embodiment as a bourgeois town house with Neoclassical stylistic pretensions.

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