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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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The new Fender x Loog Precision Bass offers ultra-compact access to the low endToy or tonic? Loog is a children’s instrument brand that doesn’t skimp on quality. The company’s latest tie-in with Fender includes a tiny Telecaster and its first foray into bass
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Winter nights just got interesting – step inside Amsterdam’s Gashouder and join the partyGashouder, a former ‘temple to techno’, matures into a dynamic city concert hall, retaining its 19th-century architecture and experimental character with an immersive interior by Inside Outside
By Harriet Thorpe Published
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The new Palace flagship in London is a cathedral to skate cultureDesigned by Seoul-based designer Steve Oh, the new Palace skateboards flagship in London's Soho is a community-building space and an opportunity to display the history of the brand
By Dan Howarth Published
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An art centre, Large, is the newest addition to Île Seguin, and its formerly industrial siteRCR Architectes is behind a new Île Seguin art centre, called Large – a space designed to celebrate art and community while breathing life into its site, a former Renault factory
By Amy Serafin Published
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For sale, Savin Couëlle’s spectacular organic villa complex on a remote Corsican islandVilla Pieds Dans L'Eau is a masterpiece of 70s organic architecture, built into the rocky coastline of the Corsican island of Cavallo
By Jonathan Bell Published
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In Toulouse, this 1950s house by Bernard Calley and Georges Alet hits the marketFor €1.45m, a six-bedroom slice of avant-garde modernist architecture from the 1950s could be yours
By Tianna Williams Published
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Norman Foster’s La Voile, one of the most acclaimed 21st-century houses, is for salePerched on the edge of the Cap-Ferrat peninsula, La Voile was designed by Lord Foster for his own family, embodying his fascination with structure, technology and architectural spectacle
By Jonathan Bell Published
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This French woodland home by In Sinu melds with its leafy contextFrench practice In Sinu Architectes gains its place in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2026 with a fairytale timber house in the woods
By Tianna Williams Published
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The artist-led Fonds Bustamante is Arles’ newest creative gemThe brainchild of Jean-Marc Bustamante, and designed by Charles Zana, the new art foundation has opened its doors in an old church building in the south of France
By Amy Serafin Published
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Surrounded by larch trees, a new Evian concert hall makes music ‘warm and silky’Titled La Source Vive, the new venue by Patrick Bouchain and Philippe Chiambaretta is an organic building set within the forest in rural France
By Amy Serafin Published
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A brutalist bolthole for sale in one of France’s most iconic concrete apartment complexesArchitecture de Collection are offering up a brutalist duplex in the heart of Gailhoustet and Renaudie’s Etoiles d’Ivry in Ivry-sur-Seine
By Jonathan Bell Published