AFEW YEARS AGO, A SOUTH AFRICAN couple in their 40s living in Geneva asked Hubert Zandberg, a fellow countryman with a design and architecture practice in London, for help with a sophisticated problem. The house they had recently built, which fitted in gracefully with the Swiss city's sleek modern residences, was feeling a bit too Brutalist. Could he make some interventions that would soften the effect, without betraying the house's minimalist DNA?
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