RIBA Manser Medal 2012 Winning Architect
RIBA Manser Medal Winner 2012: maison L, Yvelines, France design by architecturespossibles. The brief suggested the L-shaped general plan and the use of an indigenous stone for retaining walls. But it did not suggest half burying a series of interconnecting cave-like rooms, nor the five three-storey board-marked concrete towers that poke out of the rockery roof.