Interview: Melbourne-Based Architect Kerstin Thompson.We've featured the work of Kerstin Thompson Architects a number of times on Yellowtrace - first when we celebrated our love for Beautiful Brickwork, followed by the Tour of Aesop Stores Around The World, and most recently in our Story...
Zinc-Clad Midden Studio in Scotland by Studio Weave.Slowly nestling itself into Scotland’s western coastline, Midden Studio is this alien life form, bizarrely celebrating allusions to its Scottish, coastal context. Developed in response to the client’s long-standing relationship to...
Cultural Center La Gota: Tobacco Museum by Losada García in Cáceres, Spain.Get ready for today’s doozy-of-a-building guys – a tobacco museum. Yeah you read that correctly, the Cultural Centre La Gota has been designed around the tobacco plant. Inspiring conceptual design to façade detailing, the tobacco...
Integral House by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects // Toronto, Canada.A building really like no other, the Integral House by Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, is a ground breaking piece of design that has arguably gone down in history as one of the most important built works of North America. If you have never...
Awe-Inspiring Harbin Opera House in China by MAD Architects.Located in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, this MAD Architect’s creation is a serious beauty. Fluid and sinuous in form, the intersection between landscape and built form is intentionally blurred. MAD Architects have used...
Stories On Design // Perfectly Perforated.Perfectly Perforated (try saying that as fast as you can five times in a row) is a celebration of the love affair architects & interior designers seem to have with the 'hole'. Get your mind out of the gutter - you know that I mean,...
K8 Apartments in Kyoto, Japan by Florian Busch Architects.Florian Busch Architects have designed an apartment building which translates the horizontal sequence of Kyoto encounters into the vertical...
120 Allen Street “Aparthotel” in New York City by Grzywinski+Pons.Designed by Grzywinski+Pons, 120 Allen Street is a multi-residential project in Manhattan's Lower East Side that includes a mix of furnished studios, apartments and commercial workspaces. Part of a new breed of residential design dubbed...
‘Mills’ The Toy Management House by Austin Maynard Architects.The Mills by Austin Maynard Architects is articulated around two core ideas: the floor is a giant toy box; while the rear elevation softens the...