Barefoot Luxury Villas in Cabo Verde by Polo Architects & Going East.Belgium-based Polo Architects and Going East embraced understated elegance for Barefoot Luxury Villas, a series of 30 serviced dwellings on the archipelago of Cabo Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The design team were collectively...
Built with Brickworks: Sydney Rail Operations Centre by Jacobs & Smart Design Studio.The Rail Operations Centre for Sydney Trains by Smart Design Studio and Jacobs is a vast award-winning structure. Red brick facades from Bowral bricks define the building with two arched openings spanning forty and forty-five metres...
Yellowtrace Spotlight // August 2019.Well hello there, good lookin’, and welcome to the August 2019 edition of Yellowtrace Spotlight. As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Spring this weekend (finally!), you can catch up on a few local and international hospitality and...
Parilio Hotel on Paros Island, Greece by Interior Design Laboratorium.Set on the Greek island of Paros, Parilio is the latest outpost of the Design Hotels group. Interior design studio Laboratorium were inspired by the stripped splendor of Cycladic design, the purity of island life and Mediterranean sunlight...
Sibipirunas Concept House in Cidade Jardim, Brazil by Studio Otto Felix.Brazilian architect Otto Felix’s Sibipuranas House is a conceptual structure that straddles both a rustic and ultra-contemporary aesthetic. Following a 'Planet House' theme, the project was part of the São Paulo edition of CASACOR, the...
Omoken Park Event Space on Kyushu Island, Japan by Yabashi Architects.Yabashi Architects constructed a community-driven multi-purpose public space as a symbolic replacement for a building that was lost during severe earthquakes on the island of Kyushu, Japan in 2016. Sandwiched between two tall,...
Juun.J Fashion Flagship & Felt Coffee in Seoul by WGNB.WGNB fused a triangle, circle, and square to form one abstract, geometrical building for the Juun.J retail flagship and Felt Coffee cafe. The ambiguous shape and monochome black facades generate curiosity from passersby, intentionally...
AZL Architects Renovate An Old Kiln Building in the Chinese Forest With Concrete & Brick Arches.AZL Architecture revived a towering concrete building replete with grand arches to house the historic BingDing Wood Kiln in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China. The complex, double-curved brick arch masonry structure of the kiln...
Courtyard Villa in Tangshan, China by ARCHSTUDIO.Traditional Chinese courtyard dwellings ‘ Siheyuan’ inspired ARCHSTUDIO for Courtyard Villa, a suburban holiday home in Tangshan, China surrounded by verdant farmland, orchards and rivers. The gabled roof and wall to wall timber...