Trekronekabin by Tommie Wilhelmsen, Norway
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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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Tour this waterfront Norwegian summer house in pristine nature
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Kunstsilo sees a functionalist grain silo transformed into Norway’s newest art gallery
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This Norway cabin was designed as a minimalist, coastal escape
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This Oslo house is a suburban cabin in the woods
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Restored former US embassy in Oslo brings Eero Saarinen’s vision into the 21st century
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Tommie Wilhelmsen’s cabin on Norway’s wild coast frames the experience of the landscape
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