HLPS Arquitectos

The award-winning firm’s portfolio spans housing, cultural and infrastructure commissions
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Four young architects, Jonathan Holmes, Martin Labbé, Carolina Portugueis and Osvaldo Spichiger, formed HLPS Arquitectos in Santiago in 2009. The award-winning firm's portfolio spans housing, cultural and infrastructure commissions. Its recent built projects include a family house in Machalí that combines open, closed and semi-open areas that connect the residents with the plot's natural surroundings.
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The award-winning firm’s portfolio spans housing, cultural and infrastructure commissions

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The award-winning firm’s portfolio spans housing, cultural and infrastructure commissions

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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).