Ellie Stathaki
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).
Latest articles by Ellie Stathaki
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The new 2025 London Open House Festival tours to book if you love homes
2025 London Open House launches this weekend, running 13-21 September; here, we celebrate the newcomers in the residential realm, flagging the exciting additions to the festival's growing home tour programme
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Meet the newly appointed architects of Finland’s Museum of Architecture and Design
JKMM has been announced the winner of the competition to design the prestigious new Museum of Architecture and Design of Finland in Helsinki
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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A minimalist Moroccan villa is meticulously designed as an ‘observatory of time and nature’
DDAR, a minimalist Moroccan villa in Essaouira, designed by Othmane Bengebara, was crafted around its owner’s love of creativity, entertaining and quiet retreat
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Anish Kapoor designs Naples station as a reflection of ‘what it really means to go underground’
A new Naples station by artist Anish Kapoor blends art and architecture, while creating an important piece of infrastructure for the southern Italian city
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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‘Landscape architecture is the queen of science’: Emanuele Coccia in conversation with Bas Smets
Italian philosopher Emanuele Coccia meets Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets to discuss nature, cities and ‘biospheric thinking’
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Explore the landscape of the future with Bas Smets
Landscape architect Bas Smets on the art, philosophy and science of his pioneering approach: ‘a site is not in a state of “being”, but in a constant state of “becoming”’
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Out of office: the Wallpaper* editors’ picks of the week
With the return of back-to-school, it's back to business for the Wallpaper* team, who’ve been making the rounds at fashion pop-ups and pavilion launches. Elsewhere, we’ve been indulging in new literature and old restaurants, and taking in a farewell exhibition at a landmark gallery...
By Anna Solomon Published
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10 landscape architects to know now: the ultimate directory
The Wallpaper* 2025 Landscape Architects’ Directory spotlights the world's most exciting studios, each one transforming the environment around us with projects that celebrate nature in design
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The wait is over – the RIBA Stirling Prize 2025 shortlist is here
The restored home of Big Ben, creative housing for different needs, and a centre for medical innovation – the RIBA Stirling Prize 2025 shortlist has just been announced, and its six entries are as diverse as they can be
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Slides, clouds and a box of presents: it’s the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s quirky new pavilion
At the Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London, ArtPlay Pavilion by Carmody Groarke and a rich Sculpture Garden open, fusing culture and fun for young audiences
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Modern, minimalist Japanese houses inspiring avant-garde living
We tour the best Japanese architecture designed by international and local architects – houses that blend tradition and modernity in smart, sleek and sustainable spaces
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Colourful, impactful, bold: meet the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025 winners
From resilient flood-proof homes in Bangladesh to a bold creative hub in Palestine, the seven winners of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025 reimagine how buildings can foster community, resilience and cultural dialogue across Asia and Africa
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Meet Studio Zewde, the Harlem practice that's creating landscapes 'rooted in cultural narratives, ecology and memory'
Ahead of a string of prestigious project openings, we check in with firm founder Sara Zewde
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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A whopping 92% of this slick London office fit-out came from reused materials
Could PLP Architecture's new workspace provide a new model for circularity?
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Meet Rural Futurisms, 'agents for catalytic change' in South Africa's landscape design field
Led by Lesego Bantsheng, the collective is challenging conventional ideas of landscape by reimagining how rural communities connect with heritage, ecology and design
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Estudio Ome on how the goal of its landscapes ‘is to provoke, even through a subtle detail, an experience’
The Mexico City-based practice explores landscape architecture in Mexico, France and beyond, seeking to unite ‘art and ecology’
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Around the world in brutalist interiors – take a tour with this new book
'Brutalist Interiors' is a new book exploring the genre's most spectacular spaces; we speak to its editor Derek Lamberton, and ask for his top-three must-sees
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Pavilion 13 is a brutalist architecture landmark, reborn as a 21st-century Ukrainian cultural hub
Kyiv studio ФОРМА restored Pavilion 13 into a new contemporary art centre for Ukraine; they tell us the story behind the project
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Capsule Retreat is a concrete home embedded with ‘texture, memory, and locality’
East Architecture Studio offers a powerfully minimalist, highly textured home set among the coniferous forests of Mount Lebanon
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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The architectural pavilions packing a big punch with small structures
Pavilions – whether permanent or transient – allow architects to experiment with materials, forms and concepts. Here’s our pick of the best small structures across the globe
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How LA's Terremoto brings 'historic architecture into its next era through revitalising the landscapes around them'
Terremoto, the Los Angeles and San Francisco collective landscape architecture studio, shakes up the industry through openness and design passion
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Meet Studio Knight Stokoe, the landscape architects guided by ‘resilience, regeneration and empathy’
Boutique and agile, Studio Knight Stokoe crafts elegant landscapes from its base in the southwest of England – including a revived brutalist garden
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Campaigners propose reuse to save Kenzo Tange’s modernist ‘Ship Gymnasium’ in Japan
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium is at risk of demolition; we caught up with the campaigners who hope to save it
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Boutique London rental development celebrates European courtyard living
London design and development studio Wendover unveils its newest residential project, 20 Newcourt Street, comprising nine apartments; we toured with co-founder Gabriel Chipperfield
By Ellie Stathaki Published