The Retreat Hotel at Blue Lagoon in GrindavĂk, Iceland by Basalt Architects & Design Group Italia.Retreat Hotel at Blue Lagoon is built directly into the 800-year-old lava flow at Svartsengi in GrindavĂk, Iceland. When looking at redeveloping the site, Basalt Architects and Design Group Italia have incorporated lava into their design,...
Villa Waalre in The Netherlands by Russell Jones.Towering fir trees surround this sprawling villa in the town of Waarle, in the southern Netherlands. The large five bedroom family home covers an enclosed area of 1200 square meters over four levels and resides on a 7000 square meter plot...
Yellowtrace Spotlight // July 2018.Welcome to the July edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight! This month we are sharing a whole bunch of design news including a few super cool hospitality projects (but of course!), gelato-hued yoga space in Moscow, beautiful new ceramic tile...
Antoni Clavé Archives in Paris by Kengo Kuma.Paper is perhaps the very last material one would think of when approaching a project of architecture, but this is precisely the material Kengo Kuma and Associates have turned to when designing a private museum in Paris to house the...
Mia Yoga Studio in Moscow, Russia by Crosby Studios.In what’s becoming Crosby Studios signature, white walls & arched windows of Mia Yoga Studio are framed in thin black lines for a cartoonish, pop art...
Forte Forte Boutique in Milan by Art Director Robert Vattiliana.Italian womenswear label Forte Forte has sought to reinvigorate the bygone genre of shopping with a new flagship store in Milan’s artistic Brera district. Forte Forte co-founder Giada Forte enlisted the eye of art director Robert...
Bar Roc by OKHA Inside Cape Town’s Exclusive Boutique Hotel.The complete transformation of Bar Roc at Ellerman House in Cape Town delivers what Adam Court refers to as “Naked...
Little Albion Guesthouse Opens in Surry Hills, Sydney.Usually, when you mix design periods, specifically in the one building, you tend to end up in a bit of a hot mess. No-one, for instance, would dream of taking a 1920s Art Deco period and mixing it with a 1970s vibe. That is, not unless you...
dot COMME Collection Store in Melbourne by Sibling Architecture.Singular design vision is difficult to come by these days. In a time when all of us are hyper-connected through various digital channels and social media, the overall global aesthetic is becoming homogenised through deliberate and...
