Ten best residential builds
Edifício Bretagne, São Paulo, Brazil
Haus PAVI; Bad Waltersdorf, Austria
Steinhaus; Carinthia, Austria
Wall-less house; Nagano, Japan
Woodsong House; Miami, Florida
Maison Carré; Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France
Casa Jorge Varela; Vizela, Portugal
Casa Hernández; Mexico City, Mexico
Schloss Erkersreuth; Selb, Germany
Sloping North House; Ube, Japan
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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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