Ida & Billy
Ida Sze and Billy Chan met while working at Herzog & de Meuron before co-founding Ida & Billy in 2013. Striving for simplicity, and paying attention to requirements and character of space, the team has achieved a genuine identity for each project at any scale, from small-scale residential, such as the Bridged House in Hong Kong, and community centres to towers and urban renewal projects. idabilly.com
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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).
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