Yellowtrace Spotlight // November 2017.Hello friends, and welcome to the November 2017 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight where we round up the best submissions featuring local and global design news. We’ve had some seriously brilliant submissions this month (like, what's...
Warm Minimalism: Shoei House in Japan by Hearth Architects.This house in Shiga, Japan was designed by Hearth Architects and built on a plot of land that's mere 5.5 meters wide. The architects have embraced the limitations of a super-narrow block of land, making the most of the crafty design...
Stories On Design // Sliced Architecture.Sliced Architecture is an ode to skylights, primarily, but not just your regular, run-of-the-mill skylights. Puh-lease. When has regular anything been the topic of discussion around here? Exactly! Sliced Architecture takes into account...
Cemetery Toilet Block in Ilhavo, Portugal by M2.senos.Cemetery toilet blocks are hardly the most appealing projects. But for M2.senos, this refurbishment in Ilhavo, Portugal presented an exciting...
Jac House in Sydney, Australia by panovscott.Established in 2012 by Anita Panov and Andrew Scott, one might assume panovscott are green-faced emerging architects who made a splash with this beautiful project early on in their career. Dubbed Jac, this house extension has cleaned up at...
Tianjin Binhai Library in China by MVRDV with TUPDI.MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the spectacular Tianjin Binhai Library in a coastal metropolis outside Beijing,...
Bricks Decoded: Curved Brick Buildings.Curves. And bricks. These are two concepts we don’t usually associate with each other, at least not straight away, right? Since I personally love nothing more than challenging that which we’ve all come to expect, I thought it...
How To Design a Corridor Like a Champion: Lisbon Apartment & Home Office by Aurora Arquitectos.It's difficult to make a super long corridor, worthy of a decent javelin throw, look sexy. But not so in this masterpiece of world-class corridor design. The apartment, located on the top floor of a 1970’s building in Lisbon was...
Interview: Iva Foschia of IF Architecture.I've only had the pleasure of meeting Iva once so far. Our encounter was very brief, having recently shared an extremely short car ride up the street, followed by an unfinished conversation at an intimate media preview of Jardan's new...
