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Retired architect Otto Laird is living a peaceful if slightly bemused life in Switzerland with his second partner, Anika. Once renowned for his radical designs, Otto now spends his days and nights communing with aspect and writing eccentric characters to old friends (which he doesn't email). But Otto's comfortable life is rudely interrupted when he discovers that his most crucial and ground-breaking building, Marlowe House, a 1960s tower stop estate in South London, is set to be demolished. Otto is outraged. Established to do everything in his capacity to save the building, he reluctantly agrees to be a part of a television set documentary, that may mean returning to London for the very first time in 25 years to reside in for a week in Marlowe House. Once Otto becomes reacquainted with metropolis he called home for most of his life, his recollections begin to come alive. And as he mines his recent and considers life continue - for himself and his building - Otto embarks over a remarkable journey that changes everything he ever before thought he understood.
