Heritage Apartment Renovation in Chiavari, Italy by Nicola Spinetto.What do you do when you inherit a crumbling old ruin, full of beautiful original features, with a desire to turn it into something spectacular? Do you sympathetically update the plan, adding modern touches here and there whilst maintaining...
“History Repeating” Apartment in Turin, Italy by Marcante-Testa.It’s hard to fathom that within a traditional 19th century building in Turin, Italy lies a delightfully quirky apartment that’s bursting with character. Faced with a rather soulless interior, Andrea Mercante and Adelaide Testa...
Casa RJ in Mantua, Italy by Archiplan Studio.Italian architects Archiplan Studio have renovated an entire multi-storey residential building in downtown Mantua, Italy, including the interior of this apartment dubbed Casa RJ. This luxury home is rich in history, which is further...
Liberamensa Restaurant by Marcante-Testa Located Inside the Turin Prison.Marcante-Testa's pro-bono project sits inside the largest prison in Turin, aimed at creating high quality social engagement that aids inmates...
Specus Corallii (The Coral Cave) in Trapani, Italy by Antonino Cardillo.One of our favourite Italian architects, Antonino Cardillo, is back with another project that transcends genres, definitions and styles. Specus Corallii (The Coral Cave) continues Cardillo's series of grottoes inspired in the classical...
Stories On Design // Swimming Pools.Swimming Pools are like pom-poms. Everybody loves them. Ok, that may not be true (about pom-poms at least - that's probably just me), although you have to admit that Swimmings Pools feel like opening a can of instant happiness. Yay! For...
#YellowtraceTravels: Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI Museum of Modern Art in Rome.Shortly after the shocking news of Zaha Hadid's sudden death, Nick and I were on our way to Rome, and my instant thought was that we had to visit her MAXXI Museum of Modern Art - partly to pay our respects, but also because I was wildly...
Stories On Design // Circles in Architecture.The Circle is a universal symbol with extensive meaning. It represents the notions of totality, wholeness, focus, infinity, unity, timelessness, the Sun, the Moon, the entire Universe. I suspect the reason most of us are drawn to it is...
Otherworldly Magical Powers of Pantheon in Rome.Nine years later, in April 2016, I was reunited with this otherworldly building and it's special magical powers during our trip to Rome. Not only was the Pantheon the very first building that made me cry - it changed everything for me, and...
