Ici Architectes - Acacia house
(Image credit: Photography: Maxime Delvaux)

Founded in 2010 by Aurélie Maes, Olivier Goffin, Loïc Hermant and Jeremy Plateau, Ici has worked across all typologies and scales, developing a vision of simple, functional yet refined spaces. Projects by the tight-knit team include Acacia (pictured), the transformation and extension of a single detached family house on the edge of the Sonian Forest in Belgium. noussommesici.be

Ici Architectes - Acacia house

(Image credit: Photography: Maxime Delvaux)

Acacia house

(Image credit: Photography: Maxime Delvaux)

Ici Architectes - Montenegro

(Image credit: Photography: Maxime Delvaux)

Ici Architectes - Montenegro

(Image credit: Photography: Maxime Delvaux)

hallway with staircase

(Image credit: Photography: Maxime Delvaux)

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).