Founded in 2011 by the Columbia University-trained Leonidas Trampoukis and Eleni Petaloti, LoT is about to complete one of its biggest residential projects to date, the Cubic Housing in Thessaloniki, hailed as the best project of the year by the local architecture press. Different materials, light and colour patterns are all part of the office's pool of inspiration, contributing to its growing cross-disciplinary portfolio.
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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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