Last year we visited Split for the first time. It was a dream come true for we had always wanted to see Diocletian’s Palace, that unique monument to the perennial nature of building and mind-blowing case study of an architecture that is first and foremost appropriation of the existing, transforming reality rather than pretending to create it. On the same trip we encountered a building that was not on our list of must-sees – though it should have been, because it interpreted the theme of Diocletian’s Palace in a radically contemporary way. It was an experience we were not prepared for.