Fab 40: Taylor_Smyth Architects, Toronto

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Toronto-based Taylor_Smyth Architects’ portfolio may include a wide variety of carefully-designed projects, but it is their cabin-making skills that first caught our eye. Their Sunset Cabin, set in the stunning landscape of the southern shore of Lake Simcoe, is a simple yet sophisticated private retreat; a minimal insulated glass cabin enclosed on three sides in a cedar slats outer shell. Its design simplicity meant that its prefabricated elements could be assembled on site in just ten days.



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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).

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