The Sea Library in Awashima, Japan by ETAT Japan | Yellowtrace.

Sea Library by ETAT Architects // Awashima, Japan.

What do you get when you mix Scandinavian design with a Japanese aesthetic? A symphony of beauty, simplicity and extraordinary detailing. In other words - every designer's wet dream! Stockholm-based Erik Törnkvist and Malin Belfrage of...
Neri & Hu Design Camper Flagship Showroom Shanghai | Yellowtrace

Camper Flagship Showroom by Neri & Hu // Shanghai, China.

The Camper store is a reinterpreted two storey traditional house, sliced in half and opening itself up to the "laneway" within the warehouse which it sits. The slice is expressed with a bright red rubber, which is the same rubber used for...
MIM Design, Chambers Street, Melbourne | Yellowtrace.

Yellowtrace Spotlight // November 2013.

Hello and welcome to the November 2013 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight. In this month's design news you can read about three Melbourne projects by Mim Design, Piccolo Architecture and Studio Equator; beautiful new products from Henry...
mA-Style Architects: Idokoro House in Shizouka, Japan | Yellowtrace.

Idokoro House by mA-Style Architects // Shizouka, Japan.

Konichiwa! Today we’re south of Mount Fuji in the Shizouka Prefecture of Japan, to look at a house so good I wish I’d thought of it myself. This little slice of simplicity is by mA-Style Architects, and the photographs come from Kai...
Carrer Avinyo Barcelona Apartment by David Kohn Architects | Yellowtrace

Carrer Avinyo by David Kohn Architects // Barcelona, Spain.

Carrer Avinyó apartment is situated at a major crossroads in Barcelona. Like the Flatiron Building in New York, where Broadway meets the city's orthogonal grid, the triangular plan of the apartment's interior registers a similar moment in...
Loft by Lissoni Associati in Monza, Italy | Yellowtrace.

Loft by Lissoni Associati // Monza, Italy.

Converted warehouses are a dime a dozen these days, but how's this for a fascinating case of repurposing? Lissoni Associati have taken an old private theatre and transformed it into a home. Monumental and so strictly restrained, this loft...