Wallpaper*: The "It-Architect" List 2009

The Architect's Who's Who List for 2009 is out... The project? To create the ideal model home... For an architect... designing a house is the most basic form of design, yet the most challenging too. It defines all their beliefs, ideas, styles and views by the simple or complex lies they shall draw. Needles to say, Wallpaper did a fine job at selecting the 30 emerging practices of 2009, but only one model called home to us and that is without a doubt... "The Envelope House", by Divercity Architects. This envelope house highlights the flexibility, freedom and involvement that the resident is able to enjoy. The beauty of Divercity Architects' concept lies in the incorporated diversity of uses depending to one's needs. As the designers describe it: "The house can be adapted to the ever-changing needs of the fast-paced contemporary lifestyle". The following design of a private residence in Athens is another example of their inspiring structural and conceptual forms. To view more, click here. 

Architect: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

and in this case the apples don't fall far from each other either! Sophia Kokosalaki's little sister, Natalia, has just been featured in Wallpaper's ten best architects for its Graduate Directory of 2008. The fashion designer's sister is making a name for herself by designing an environmentally sustainable stadium in Tripoli, while working at the team of Deca Architects in Greece. Her dream working aspirations though include the offices of Herzog and de Meuron, Morphosis, Thomas Heatherwick and Rural Studio, which reveal clearly her british influence that she got from UCL's School of Architecture.