Concrete Flat in Paris by Rodolphe Parente | Yellowtrace

Concrete Flat by Rodolphe Parente // Paris.

Mop & bucket to Yellowtrace HQ please! This Concrete Flat in Paris is something else. Tiny in size but huge on big style and unique personality, perfectly balancing the raw with the bling, the classical with the kitsch. Inspired by...
Hamra House by Swedish Architecture Studio DinellJohansson | Yellowtrace

Hamra House by Studio DinellJohansson // Sweden.

This beautifully simple, compact summer house in Hamra, Sweden was designed by architecture studio DinellJohansson. The client initially asked for an existing barn to be converted into a summer house. Instead, DinellJohansson designed them...
Kessel Lo House by NU Architectuuratelier | Yellowtrace

Kessel-Lo House by NU Architectuuratelier // Belgium.

Ghent-based practice NU Architectuuratelier have refurbished this two-storey house in the suburbs of Leuven in Belgium. Can we please talk about that stair cascading down in front of the double height window? A bit of a...
Neri & Hu Design Camper Flagship Showroom Shanghai | Yellowtrace

Camper Flagship Showroom by Neri & Hu // Shanghai, China.

The Camper store is a reinterpreted two storey traditional house, sliced in half and opening itself up to the "laneway" within the warehouse which it sits. The slice is expressed with a bright red rubber, which is the same rubber used for...
Oval Barcelona by Flexoarquitectura | Yellowtrace.

Oval Barcelona by Flexoarquitectura.

You see, as much as I love a project with a big fat budget to work on or to share with you, I am also quite partial towards projects that were time and budget challenged, but have managed to rise to the occasion. I've said it before and...

Design Free Thursday // Mimicry by GiesenLeenders.

"Mimicry" is a quirky little series of images by Dutch photography duo Maurits Giesen and Ilse Leenders of GiesenLeenders. Each colourful scene captures two matching characters perfectly camouflaged in their environment. Without trying to...

Design Free Thursday // Body Art by Olaf Breuning.

In this colour-study body art series, eclectic Swiss artist Olaf Breuning investigates the possibility of using the human form as a canvas. Red, blue, yellow and green are used against inky black background creating a super striking...