Yellowtrace Spotlight // March 2015.Welcome to the March edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight. We bring you a string of fantastic local and international projects, a new Australian design fair in Melbourne, a lamp formed from a single sheet of paper, plus a little announcement...
Design Days Dubai 2015.Design Days Dubai is the leading fair in the Middle East and South Asia dedicated to collectible and limited edition furniture and design objects. Now in it's fourth year, the fair presented design from leading international designers and...
Jorge Penadés Transforms Offcuts From Leather Factories into Structural Skin.Jorge Penades devised a new production method that transforms the apparently worthless waste from leather factories, into an innovative material that is made 100% from an animal source. The result is Structural Skin, a material-based...
Renovation of a Split-Level Hair Salon & Home in Taiwan by HAO Design.An ordinary house at first sight, HAO design has converted a three floor building in Taiwan into an eclectic mixed-use space - part hair salon & part...
Timber Community Food Hub by University of Berkeley + Kengo Kuma.From the Japanese architectural firm of Kengo Kuma and a team of students at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design comes "Nest We Grow," an elaborate timber community food hub recently constructed on the island of Hokkaido. The...
Open Loft by gutgut // Bratislava, Slovakia.This contemporary and multifunctional 'space for art,' situated in central Bratislava, has been reconfigured from a four-room apartment into an open loft by the architectural practice gutgut. Located in a building designed by Clement...
House 1014 by H Arquitectes // Barcelona, Spain.Situated just outside Barcelona in the old city of Granollers, a red brick wall spans the gap between two crumbling facades, hiding a home with two courtyards and a central garden designed by H Arquitectes. Timber gates slide back from the...
Kettle Black Cafe in South Melbourne by Studio You Me.Nestled under the belly of an Elenberg Fraser apartment tower in South Melbourne, Kettle Black cafe designed by Studio You Me exudes quiet...
Rehabilitation of an Apartment by CorreiaRagazzi Arquitectos // Braga, Portugal.Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos have merged two floors of a 1990s apartment block in Braga, north-west Portugal, to create the 375sqm duplex for a family. A sculptural white staircase links a geometric tiled foyer to the upper level of this...