House with Guest Room in Taree NSW by Andrew Power | Yellowtrace

House with a Guest Room in Taree NSW by Andrew Power.

For Melbourne-based architect Andrew Power, proportion and arrangement are paramount—simple, uncomplicated proportions can be powerful forces of design, creating serene environments out of even the most common of spaces. For this...
Workstead House in Charleston, South Carolina | Yellowtrace

Workstead House in Charleston, South Carolina.

There is something delicious about the prospect of taking a dilapidated building and restoring it to its former grandeur. Every architect and designer worth their salt has a moment of salivation at the mere thought of taking a tumbledown...
Belmont House by Kennedy Nolan | Yellowtrace

Belmont House in Kew, VIC by Kennedy Nolan.

Family homes are just that. Homes filled with families. And families start small and get bigger, often with alarming rapidity. Houses or apartments that once suited a couple no longer suit one with a baby. A house that once sufficed to...
House of Many-Worlds in Oslo, Norway by Austigard Arkitektur | Yellowtrace

House of Many-Worlds in Oslo, Norway by Austigard Arkitektur.

Sam Merwin Jr.’s 1951 science fiction novel The House of Many Worlds is arguably his best work—telling the tale of a creepy West Virginia mansion that’s also a portal between parallel time streams. Whether this classic account of...
Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch | Yellowtrace

Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch.

Imagine a warm, cosy timber-clad ski chalet, with a picturesque vista across the snowy Swiss Alps. Now imagine if the chalet’s interiors had been designed by a former Pierre Cardin menswear designer with a keenness for luxurious, storied...
Duplex Tibbaut in Barcelona, Spain by Raúl Sánchez | Yellowtrace

Duplex Tibbaut in Barcelona, Spain by Raúl Sánchez.

Maybe the most striking element of Raúl Sánchez’s Duplex Tibbaut in downtown Barcelona is its bold spatial definition—a trick the Spanish architect seems to enjoy. Using geometry and a helping of buttery gold and charcoal black...