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This minimalist French home extension is driven by simplicity
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. France’s Saba Ghorbanalinejad joins the 2022 list with this minimalist home extension in Nanterre
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CHOHELO’s Rounded House is a minimalist home with a futuristic twist
South Korea-based architecture practice CHOHELO A+U and its curvaceous, unconventional designs join the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2021
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Concrete meets bamboo at Raw Architecture's Indonesia live/work space
The Wallpaper* Architects' Directory 2021 includes RAW Architecture, the fast-emerging Indonesian practice set up by Realrich Sjarief
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Tosin Oshinowo designs minimalist Nigerian beach house
Fowóralé house transports us to a pristine Nigerian beach, and the work of cmDesign Atelier and its founder Tosin Oshinowo, who joins the ranks of the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2021
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The System Lab founder Chanjoong Kim on style and evolution
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we’re looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. South Korean Architects Directory alumnus The System Lab has gone from strength to strength since its 2016 inclusion, with work expanding from private homes to masterplanning, housing and impressive commercial work. Here, we speak to founder Chanjoong Kim to explore the studio's evolution and latest work.
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Architects Directory Alumni: Fabric Warehouse 2.0 by Fearon Hay
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we're looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Award winning New Zealand architecture studio Fearon Hay, which featured in the 2001 Wallpaper* Architects Directory, has created Fabric Warehouse 2.0, an industrial building with bold, art installation-like features.
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Military hut transformed into chic Andermatt restaurant with ‘concealed tunnels'
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we're looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. The Wachtuus Mountain restaurant, set in the Andermatt area's mountains, is a transformed military hut with a concealed ‘entrance to a network of tunnels’ says its creator, London based architectural designer and Wallpaper* Architects Directory alumnus Jonathan Tuckey.
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Architectural pavilion lands on the small island of Naoshima
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Hiroshi Sambuichi, a 2004 Architects Directory alumnus, introduces The Water pavilion, the latest addition to the Naoshima Plan, the island campus in the Seto Inland Sea.
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Escher GuneWardena designs Woven showroom in LA
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we are looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. 2000 Architects Directory alumnus Escher GuneWardena Architecture is now an established, prolific West Coast studio, and here we visit its latest offering, the showroom for rug brand Woven, in Los Angeles.
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Architects Directory alumnus: Atelier Masomi
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Drawing on local climate, materials and vernacular, Niamey's new cultural centre by Mariam Kamara will be a valuable hub for the arts in the region, but also feel at one with its environment. Kamara's studio, Atelier Masomi, was first featured in the 2019 Architect Directory.
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A vision of Niamey's new cultural centre by Mariam Kamara
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. Drawing on local climate, materials and vernacular, Niamey's new cultural centre by Mariam Kamara will be a valuable hub for the arts in the region, but also feel at one with its environment. Kamara's studio, Atelier Masomi, was first featured in the 2019 Architect Directory.
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Andra Matin's Titik Dua hotel in Bali is a hospitality-art hybrid
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. First featured in Wallpaper* in the 2007 Architects Directory, Indonesian architect Andra Matin has just completed an eye catching new hotel in Bali's Ubud, the Titik Dua.
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MAD completes metropolis-scale development in China’s Jiangsu province
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, this summer, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. In the space of the 13 years since their participation in the Architects Directory in 2007, Chinese architecture firm MAD, headed by Ma Yansong, has become an international powerhouse with projects ranging hugely, both in scale and geographical location. Here, we visit their latest, nature-inspired, mixed-used development Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center.
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Architects Directory Alumni: 122 Community Arts Center by Deborah Berke Partners
The Wallpaper* Architects Directory has turned 20. Conceived in 2000 as our index of emerging architectural talent, this annual listing of promising practices, has, over the years, spanned styles and continents; yet always championing the best and most exciting young studios and showcasing inspiring work with an emphasis on the residential realm. To mark the occasion, in the next months, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch some of their latest completions. New York based architect Deborah Berke featured in the 2002 Architects Directory and has since been prolific, achieving international renown for a variety of projects. Here, we take a first look inside her recently completed 122 Community Arts Center in the East Village.
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The Wallpaper* Architects' Directory turns 20
The Wallpaper* Architects' Directory has been championing young and emerging talent since the turn of the century. To mark the occasion, throughout the month of July, we will be looking back at some of our over-500 alumni, to catch up about life and work since their participation and exclusively launch their latest completions.
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Santiago and Berlin-based Gun Architects selected for Wallpaper* Architects' Directory
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Based in Santiago and Berlin, Lene Nettelbeck and Jorge Godoy founded Gun in 2010. Driven by the properties of the materials they work with, this experimental studio won MoMA’s Young Architects Program International in 2011, and recent projects include the remote Casa de Huéspedes (pictured) in Chile.
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Cologne-based architect Frédéric Schnee selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Taking an academic approach that applies architectural theory to spatial design, Frédéric Schnee is currently an assistant professor in architecture at TH Köln. His first project, the Peach House (pictured) in Beijing, begins his journey towards a socially oriented architecture that utilises interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Porto-based Fala Atelier selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Porto-based studio Fala Atelier founded in 2013 by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares and Ahmed Belkhodja has been internationally recognised for its contribution to an international conversation on architecture. Their naïve projects, such as the House in Rua do Paraíso (pictured), are collages of elements from postmodernism to history, with a charcaterful take on context.
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London-based Al-Jawad Pike selected for the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Dean Pike and Jessam Al-Jawad both studied architecture at the Bartlett and worked together at David Chipperfield Architects. In 2014, they established their London practice, which approaches architecture as an everyday art form. Projects include a two-storey extension and a terraced house (pictured) in Peckham in south London.
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Sydney-based THOSE selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Ben Mitchell and Simon Addinall founded their Sydney-based practice in 2013, with the aim to build softly modernist architecture with a focus on site-sensitive design, specific to architectural context and climate.
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Japanese architect Takanori Ineyama selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Japanese architect Takanori Ineyama, who is based out of Kanagawa, builds his designs through a contextual approach, conscious of the demands of modern life. Combining high ceilings with timber beams, and corrugated plastic, his Inner Garden House is a private oasis of light in the heart of Kofu City.
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Milan-based Studio Wok selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Marcello Bondavalli, Nicola Brenna and Carlo Alberto Tagliabue established Studio Wok in Milan in 2012. Taking an artisanal approach to each project, their priorities include environmental sustainability, choosing materials that evolve over time, and building positive spaces, evident in their modern renovation of a farmhouse (pictured) near Verona.
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Seoul and NYC based stpmj selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Based in New York and Seoul, this practice is headed up by Harvard postgraduates Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim, who have combined experience at SOM and Herzog & de Meuron. The pair describe their approach as ‘provocative realism’, as demonstrated in their vertically stacked Five-Story House (pictured) on a small site in the highly dense city of Seoul.
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Canada-based architect Peter Braithwaite selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Canadian architect Peter Braithwaite trained as a carpenter before studying architecture, then working for MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple and Omar Gandhi. His Nova Scotia-based studio sets out to combine design and construction in a single practice, and projects include his own Back Bay Studio (pictured), which emulates the locale’s rugged terrain.
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Barcelona-based Nomo Studio selected for Wallpaper* Architects' Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Founding partners Alicia Casals and Karl Nyqvist have collectively gained experience at the likes of OMA, Kengo Kuma and BIG. Driven by innovation and the pursuit of the unique, the Barcelona-based studio, whose projects include the Frame House (pictured) on Menorca’s northeast coast, is currently in the process of setting up a branch in Stockholm.
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Swiss architect Leopold Banchini selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: Swiss architect Leopold Banchini founded his studio in 2016. His pre-fabricated timber house in Geneva, Casa CCFF (pictured) demonstrates his independent and playful approach to building.
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LA and NYC-based FreelandBuck selected for Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2019
WALLPAPER* ARCHITECTS’ DIRECTORY 2019: NYC and LA-based duo David Freeland and Brennan Buck, set up their practice in 2010. It was their LA house projects, that respond to the climate and terrain, while also questioning how architecture should grow and adapt to suit changing urban contexts, that caught our attention. Pictured here, Stack House, in Mount Washington.
