Block of four flats, Winterthur

The building is irritating. The body of the three-storey liverwurst-coloured block is folded several times as it traces the boundary line of the property. On the one hand it seems compact, on the other it projects oddly: the top storey has a triangular terrace cutting into its volume, spreading it apart, and two low annexes at its eastern end connecting to the property next door. Elegant it is not.