This Architectural Gem in Sydney’s Paddington Transforms the Street.There’s an ease to this newly-built Paddington house that masks its economy. Single gestures generate multiple outcomes, nothing is wasted, and much is achieved with little. Designed by Phillip Arnold from Plus Minus Design, in...
PC Garden House in Japan by Kengo Kuma.Who feels like a cool drink of water? I felt like I’d had one after looking at Mitsumasa Fujitsuka’s photos of this beautiful Kengo Kuma house. It’s a littler, newer, Katsura. Spare Japanese perfection, just enough brush strokes to...
Mölle by the Sea by Elding Oscarson // Sweden.Sweden – top three in my list of places I’d be from if I wasn’t from here. Elding Oscarson – similarly top-ranking in the sort of architects I’d be if I was in that league. So what joy today’s post brings – it’s a house in...
House in Balsthal by Pascal Flammer // Switzerland.To Switzerland, today, where outside the little town Balsthal stands this sweet cottage by Pascal Flammer. Looking at the photos, I can’t stop the walls and roof morphing into gingerbread. I’m starting design work on my own little...
Albert Frey House II in Palm Springs.If I was supremely talented, in possession of a spectacular site in the hills above a resort town, armed with a Bunnings power pass, and in command of the sort of budget most architects have (which is to say, fuck all), I still don’t...
Rwanda Education Centre by Dominikus Stark Architekten // Nyanza, Rwanda.Bricks. They’re probably my favourite. Bricks skillfully dispersed around a beautiful courtyard – ding dong! We’re journeying into the heart of darkness today, to Nyanza, Rwanda, where stands this remarkable Education Centre designed...
Joshua Tree House by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg.What I like about writing for Yellowtrace is that I get to spend a fair bit of time mentally arranging my furniture in houses other than my own. With this one I am stumped. Being frank, this house is not my cup of tea. However at this...
Event Report // Palm Springs Modernism Week 2014.Armchair tourists, we’re off to California! I recently had the luck to attend this year’s Modernism Week in Palm Springs, with my good friends. With a rented house in the Movie Colony, a bagful of tickets, and heads full of dreams...
Villa Weinberg by Mette and Martin Wienberg // Højbjerg, Denmark.I wish this was my house. It's not - because life is not fair, and also because it belongs to Mette and Martin Wienberg, both architects. Both Danish architects at that, meaning my predisposition to like this place is as strong as Sarah...
