The British architect David Chipperfield relocated to Berlin after accepting the job to restore and rebuild the Neues Museum. (The project was completed in 2008, but Chipperfield stayed on in the German capital). He and his studio reside in a three-story concrete house that faces a semi-public courtyard containing a canteen Chipperfield designed for locals. The interiors' austere concrete walls are counterbalanced by two colors, Molteni says, represented by "[t]he green of a velvet sofa and the orange of a bookcase that divides the space between the kitchen and the sitting room.