Mr & Mrs Fox, Hong Kong.Designed by Charlie & Rose, Hong Kong-based company owned by Australian designer Ben McCarthy, Mr & Mrs Fox is a 250-seat multi-level bar and restaurant with a craft beer-house at street level, raw bar and steakhouse on the first floor and...
Waimatou Co-working Loft by Naturalbuild Architects // Shanghai, China.It always feels like an extra special treat being able to take a peek inside other architects' and designers' office, don't you think? So glad you agree! This co-working space belongs to Naturalbuild, a multi-disciplinary architecture...
#YellowtraceTravels: The Upper House, Hong Kong.The Upper House opened in 2009, becoming the second hotel in The House Collective brought to life by Swire Properties. It's name stems from the fact it sits above the bustling city as a serene house of intriguing spaces and natural...
#YellowtraceTravels: Hong Kong, China.No matter how many times I visit, Hong Kong is one of those cities that gets under my skin just a little bit more each time. It is a place I could personally go back to time and time again. Hong Kong is the city of dichotomies. A perfect...
Micro-Housing: Hutong Experiments by Standardarchitecture in Beijing, China.Standardarchitecture developed the Hutong experiment with the aim to explore the possibilities of micro scale social housing within the tight confines of the Beijing streets. Hutong are residential lane-ways, traditionally the home of the...
Jingyuan No. 22 Coworking Office in Beijing by C+ architects.Jingyuan No.22 is a transformation of an old 330sqm cotton warehouse in Beijing, China into a coworking office owned by two young Internet finance companies. Local practice C+ architects created an interactive coworking space with multiple...
Stories On Design // Why Are Architects So Sick For Green?I've been noticing a peculiar phenomenon in architecture both here and overseas which has me scratching my head juuuust a little. There happens to be one colour (other than "concrete") that sits at the top of architect's list. Green....
Landscapes of Possibility Made from Maps & Books by Ji Zhou.Beijing-based artist Ji Zhou's latest photographic works titled 'Civilized Landscape' treat the object as a vehicle for visual representation and interpretation, whereby maps and books become landscapes of possibility. Zhou collects maps,...
Ai Weiwei Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts London.The elegant rooms of London's Royal Academy of Arts and Ai Weiwei's brave and visionary works are a perfect match. The exhibition itself is politically charged, provocative, powerful and poetic in equal measure, made even better by the...