Architects Branko Pavlovic and Luca Montanarella founded Whale! in Santiago de Chile in 2012. The architecture and construction firm has 9 built projects, including 3 houses, that each have unique timber structures that are sensitively placed in coastal locations in Chile. The design is respectful of the rural heritage of the central coast and acknowledges the topography of the landscape. whalearchitecture.com
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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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A revamped Edinburgh apartment combines Californian-style modernism with modern craft
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This new lakeside house in Chile is a tour de force of contemporary timber construction
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House in the Trees offers a bird's eye view of the Chilean forest
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Elemental House is an architectural grand prize in Mexican charity raffle
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