Spectacular Renovation of ‘The Hermitage’ in Sydney’s Vaucluse by Hess Hoen.The Hermitage was built in 1831, and has been owned by the Hemmes family since 1974. In 2011, Justin Hemmes, head of the Merivale hospitality group, moved back into the family’s heritage-listed estate, and began renovations in...
Australian Architecture & Interiors | 2015 Archive.Good design is good, but somehow it tastes even better when it’s local, right? For far too long the designers and the consumer of design in this country have looked to other places, namely Europe, as the only ‘valid’ source of good...
Hotel Architecture & Interiors | 2015 Archive.Hotels have always been a serious business and the ultimate expression of good hospitality design. Nowadays more than ever, they are places that need to capture the imagination of global travellers, particularly as these days we can all...
Commercial Architecture, Public & Education Buildings | 2015 Archive.In what is possibly the most "serious" Yellowtrace category, we bring you a collection of projects that span a fairly large topic - commercial, cultural and public buildings such as museums, galleries, cinemas, offices, stand-alone retail...
Residential Architecture | 2015 Archive.We are kicking off our 2015 Archives with Residential Architecture, one of our favourite categories at the Yellowtrace HQ. We are passionate about homes and seeing the way people live around the globe, and more importantly, we love...
Yellowtrace Spotlight // December 2015.Welcome to our December edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight - the last one for 2015! As we wrap up the year that was, we have a selection of some of the things that have been submitted and uncovered in this past month, including a new...
Stories On Design // Empty & Abandoned Buildings.I've always had a profound fascination with empty buildings and abandoned spaces. It's difficult to look at these sorts of images without a whole bunch of mixed feelings rising to the surface - a sense of wonder, confusion, awe,...
SAMF Arquitectos’ Reinterpretation of a Traditional Portuguese Farmhouse.SAMF Arquitectos have designed a residence set in a vineyard with traditional agricultural buildings nearby. The property replaces an existing farm building and is part of the gradual regeneration of the site to improve its potential for...
Fab-Union Space by Archi-Union Architects // Shanghai, China.As more designers play with, experiment and adopt new technologies and create new techniques to implement them, this brave Chinese jewel starts revealing a future face of architecture that is frankly, pretty cool. Springing up in...