Acre Architects
Husband-and-wife team Stephen Kopp and Monica Adair head the Saint John-based Acre Architects in New Brunswick, Canada, with a further office in New York. The team works with contemporary forms and strives to create a sense of place and identity. ‘We don’t take the conventional order of things as a given, and are inspired by people who have the courage to think big,’ say the architects. One of their favourite works is a craft beer microbrewery project that was part adaptive reuse of an old railway roundhouse and part new build. Residential work, meanwhile, includes Into The Wild, a Saint John family house built on a long-vacant plot.
www.theacre.ca
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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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