London House by Simon Astridge Features Plywood, Concrete, Brickwork, Stone & The Sky.Plywood House in London by Simon Astridge is humble in budget and size, but high on refinement and detailing. The project involved a full house refurbishment with three new extensions, creating a contemporary home woven into the existing...
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...
A House that Caused the End of a Marriage: Casa Redux by Studio MK27.Studio MK27, the firm led by Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan, produced the short film to accompany their recent project Redux House – a single-storey holiday home in the exclusive Quinta da Baroneza neighbourhood, north of São Paulo....
Long Museum West Bund by Atelier Deshaus // Shanghai, China.If anyone is searching for a healthy dose of brutality today, well you’ve just struck concrete! This béton beauty will have you appreciating, once again, why Kahn and Corbusier were the architectural monoliths of the twentieth century....
Video // 1942 Berlin Bunker Transformed Into a Gallery & Home.Christian Boros, the owner of a German advertising agency, and his wife, Karen Lohmann, an art historian, were looking for a large space in Berlin—both for living and exhibiting their vast contemporary-art collection—when they...
So Hot Right Now // Fins & Folded Facades.I recall a time when I used to have a grown up job in an architecture firm, and the debate amongst my colleagues/ architects over the design of every façade. This is not surprising. Not only are they one of the first things we all notice...
Gallery Post // Casa MaracanĂŁ by Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados.MaracanĂŁ House was built in the city of SĂŁo Paulo by the Brazilian architecture studio Terra and Tuma Arquitetos Associados. The house is made of blocks of light concrete, hosting the family of Danilo Terra, one of the studio directors....
DI Telegraph by Archiproba in Moscow, Russia.This former Soviet telecommunications building in the centre of Moscow has been converted by studio Archiproba into an open plan office for a technology company. Called DI Telegraph, the new flexible space occupies the upper floor of the...
Blackwood Street Bunker // Shared Office Space in Melbourne by Clare Cousins Architects.Clare Cousins Architects have re-designed this 1970’s office block in North Melbourne into their own workspace shared with a construction company. Interior fittings are picked out in black or white to distinguish among the diverse...
