17thC Palazzo Transformed by Jean Nouvel into The Rooms of Rome Luxury Accommodation.It’s not often we get to see luxury accommodation served up with this much personality and flair, especially when the by-line reads as who’s who in the zoo – Alda Fendi of the famous Roman fashion dynasty FENDI, the renowned French...
Exceptional Concrete Apartment Building in Mexico City by Taller Hector Barroso.You can’t help but feel totally at ease and uplifted when you come across a project as remarkable as this one. This terracotta-toned dream located in Mexico City’s Colonia del Valle district is the work of incredibly clever architects...
RYU Japanese Restaurant by Ménard Dworkind in Montreal, Canada.Montreal-based architecture & design studio Ménard Dworkind employed a contemporary design approach underpinned with a Japanese sensibility for the design of Ryù restaurant. The duo prioritised hand-worked natural materials that would...
The Imprint Nightclub & Indoor Theme Park Complex in Seoul, South Korea by MVRDV.The design of The Imprint arises from a simple question: Can an expressive façade that connects with its surroundings be achieved even when a building has no...
Vila Calando in Yanggu-gun, South Korea by Chiasmus Partners.The sprawling, angular and ominous-looking Vila Calando was conceived as a refuge from urban life. Located in South Korea's northeastern countryside, the densely vegetated area is largely untouched due to its proximity to the Demilitarised...
Panorama Suburbia House in Switzerland by Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide.When surrounded by sprawling suburbia with its homogeneous houses, it takes courage and adventurousness to stand out from the crowd. Designed by Leopold Banchini & Daniel Zamarbide, this intriguing house that overlooks Lake Geneva in...
Huntingtower House in Armadale, Melbourne by Workroom & AGUSHI Construction.Home to AGUSHI’s Founding Director, this new 4-bedroom residence unfolds dramatically from the street as an imposing 3-storey box cantilevered over glass rooms and embedded in sunken...
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,...
Branch Studio Architects’ Florence Street Studio Inside Nightingale 1 in Brunswick, Victoria.Branch Studio's workspace acts as a laboratory for testing ideas and serving as a precedent for the studio's commitment to the possibilities of light, materials and modest-scale...
