Earth Meets the Sky in this Antwerp Penthouse by Bruno Spaas Architectuur.Despite perching 15 floors up high, there is solid ground in the newly inaugurated Antwerp penthouse belonging to Belgian architect Bruno Spaas. With the entire 350-square-meter floor surface made from chunks of local light brown natural...
A Network of Micro-villages: OnLabs Global HQ in Zurich by Specific Generic & Spillmann Echsle Architekten.Designed by Spillmann Echsle, Specific Generic and On’s creative team, the new OnLabs headquarters in Zurich West, Switzerland, delivers a series of micro-villages within an existing high-rise building. While the headquarters operates as...
Meditative Mindset: House of the Serene Past by Karan Darda Architects.In the midst of building their 185-square-metre home in a village near Pune, India, the client approached Karan Darda Architecture (KrDA) with a simple request—to take the nostalgic memories from their childhood home and engrain its...
Colourful Bohemia: A Clothing Workshop-Turned-Loft in Paris by Épicène.Despite the initial spatial shortcomings, the quirky geometry and play of cubes are this Parisian loft’s shining stars. Isabelle Heilmann of Épicène was convinced that with a little polishing up and shuffling around, the spaces would...
Best of Commercial, Retail & Workplace Interiors | 2022 Archive.Take a tour through the best commercial interiors to be featured on Yellowtrace in 2022—and yes, things are going to get sexy as hell. Obviously. Be it retail, workplace or hybrids of both and beyond, we love to see designers balance...
Biiird Yakitori in Guangdong by bigER club design.With a knocked-back, frill-free atmosphere, the latest yakitori restaurant by bigER club design in Guangdong, China—christened Biiird Yakitori—is deeply rooted in the yakitori tradition. Located on the first floor of an urban complex,...
FUNFUN Gallery, Exhibition Space & Cafe in Hangzhou by lialawlab.FUNFUN Gallery is exactly what it sounds like—fun, fun, fun, in big capital letters. Situated in an old building that once housed the Hangzhou silk printing and dyeing factory, the cultural and creative park-cum-gallery retains the...
Studio McW Transform an East London Warehouse into a Live/ Work Loft for Earthrise Studio.Somewhere in East London, inside a 1924 shoe factory, sits an apartment that could pass off for a park. Exposed brick emblazons the walls, plants spill out of baskets and a garden-style picnic table masquerades as a spiffy workspace. But...
Gatwick Private Hotel by Kosloff Architecture.Set within Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda, this flexible home cum short-stay studio celebrates the colourful history of the building originally designed by Harry Raymond Johnson. As a design opportunity that also poses a question on what it...
