Stories On Design // Built Into Nature. Today we take a world wide tour of seriously incredible examples of architecture that not only address their context and interact with their surrounds, the sites they occupy form the key ingredient that architects have used in the overall...
Enoteca dai Tosi: Wine Bar Carved Into a Mountain in Matera, Italy, Designed by Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu. Enoteca dai Tosi started out life as a competition. Five esteemed architectural studios duked it out for the honour to design the three-level winery. Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu won the coveted prize and it’s clear why. If the...
#YellowtraceTravels: Postcards From Siena, Italy. Before our annual pilgrimage to Milan for Salone del Mobile & Design Week, Team Yellowtrace spent blissful 36 hours in Siena. It was our first time in this picturesque little city, which proved to be a perfect start to our very busy time...
Inside Utopia: Visionary Interiors and Futuristic Homes + Book Giveaway! Win 3 copies of Gestalten's book Inside Utopia, which unearths the previously difficult to access, radical, visionary homes by famed architects &...
Stories On Design // Trending Terrazzo. Some people have a love/hate relationship with terrazzo. Divisive as it may be, it’s ALL love around here, baby! We can’t get enough of the quirky colour combinations, the clash of materials and the sense of movement and vibrancy it...
1930s Villa Kaplansky in Antwerp, Belgium Restored by B-Architecten. Sometimes you just have to gut the place and start again. Pull out all the windows and demolish the inside. It’s not pretty, but if the job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. B-architecten, the architectural studio behind this...
Stories On Design // Old Meets New: Architecture of Renewal. We are extremely lucky to have a world filled with creative geniuses that appropriate spaces which are built in one era and transform them into a space that harmoniously incorporate a contemporary one. Be that by planning, use of...
The Mirror of Our Nature: Immersive Multimedia Installation at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. 'Lo Specchio della Nostra Natura' or ‘The Mirror of Our Nature’ is an immersive multimedia experience that highlights the wonders and delights of Italian cinema. Showing at the Cannes film festival, curating a series of cinematic snap...
Charming Unfinished Character of Sala Beckett in Barcelona Refurbished by Flores & Prats. The Sala Beckett theatre transformation has been a resounding success taking an old dame gracefully into a new era whilst keeping the integrity and character of the original building. Sala Beckett is a place were the most renowned...
