Located in Groningen, Netherlands, the Wall House II or the Bye House is one of the few realized designs to which the renowned American architect John Hejduk owes his fame. The residence was initially designed in 1973 for Ed Bye, a landscape architect and fellow faculty member at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York City, to be built in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The plans were abandoned due to concerns over the cost of the building until a Groningen-based development company, Wilma, took special interest in the project and decided to fund the construction at 2,500 square feet. It was not until the unexpected death of John Hejduk in 2000 that construction on the house began.