Murray Barker & Esther Stewart’s Brunswick Apartment.Australian architect Murray Barker and artist Esther Stewart have collaborated on a functional and flexible renovation of a two-bedroom 60s apartment in Brunswick. By reworking the home’s original foundations through a contemporary lens,...
Child Studio Transforms 1960s London Post Office into a Japanese Restaurant.Celebrating the unique history of a disused post office building and the neighbourhood, Child Studio's scheme for Maido Sushi restaurant pays tribute to London's modernist heritage. The Japanese references are subtle, presenting themselves...
FontanaArte reissues 1960s Bobo Piccoli’s Re and Regina Lamps.With sinuous shapes inspired by the game of chess, Re and Regina appear as two key chessboard characters. Their form is a play on alternating spheres, cylinders and rings of light – the vertical is the King (Re) and horizontal is the...
1960s Industrial Sugar Mill in Guilin, China, Transformed into Yangshuo Sugar House Luxury Hotel by Vector Architects.Can we please take a moment to appreciate just how breathtaking this project is? I mean the sheer scale of it alone is extraordinary but paired with a dramatic landscape and historically thoughtful architecture, and we are in for a treat!...
1960s Apartment Renovation in Vigo, Spain by Ansede Quintáns.Of all the things we do here at Yellowtrace, one of the most amusing is having to regularly use Google Translate to decipher project descriptions and/ or read through submissions in broken-English. As a non-native English speaker myself,...
Commune Design Transforms a 1960s Bank into The Durham Hotel in North Carolina.Commune Design have transformed an old bank into a mid-century modern hotel in the heart of downtown Durham, inspired by the spirit of its namesake...
