ELARA VOSS · ARCHITECT · EST. 2014

I design the silence between structures.

Raw concrete pavilion structure with angular geometry against an overcast sky in Iceland
ERA · RAW
0012015

Basalt Pavilion

REYKJAVIK, ICELANDCULTURAL / TEMPORARY STRUCTURE

The brief said shelter. I heard threshold. The pavilion was never about enclosure — it was about the precise moment you decide to cross.

"I stopped designing buildings. I started designing thresholds."

— REYKJAVIK TO TALLINN, 2017

Large-scale cultural building with faceted glass facade reflecting grey Baltic sky and surrounding urban fabric
ERA · REFINED
0022019

Meridian Cultural Centre

TALLINN, ESTONIACIVIC / MIXED PROGRAMME

Five years in. I stopped optimising floor plates and started asking what a building owes the street. Meridian was the answer I was not ready to give.

"Every revision was a subtraction. What remained was the argument."

— STUDIO NOTES, TALLINN, 2018

Cantilevered waterfront research building over Rotterdam harbour with steel and glass facade catching evening light
ERA · INEVITABLE
0032024

Tidal Archive

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDSWATERFRONT / RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE

The water is always right. Tidal Archive does not resist the harbour — it listens to it. The structure breathes with the tide at a frequency you cannot hear but can feel through the floor.

04 · RECOGNITION

Presence

PUBLICATION · 2024

Dezeen

Project of the Year — Tidal Archive

AWARD · 2023

Architectural Record

Design Vanguard — Emerging Practice

EXHIBITION · 2022

Venice Architecture Biennale

National Pavilion — Estonia

PUBLICATION · 2023

Domus

Cover Feature — Issue 1062

AWARD · 2021

Mies van der Rohe Award

Shortlist — Meridian Cultural Centre

LECTURE · 2024

ETH Zürich

Kenzo Tange Chair — Spring Semester

05 · NEW PRACTICE · 2026

A new studio is forming.

A new practice, a residency, and a monograph — arriving 2026. Enter your studio address to receive the announcement first.