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Yellowtrace

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A Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods.

YellowtraceA Sun, Underground: Mecca Coffee Foley Street by Killing Matt Woods. Is this outer space or red earth Australia? Familiar or futuristic? At Mecca Coffee Foley Street, Matt Woods has made a room that declines to define itself. Part Coober Pedy dugout, part moon landing, entirely cocooned b

August 31
One Good Connection: What I Found at Jia Curated 2026 in Bali.

YellowtraceOne Good Connection: What I Found at Jia Curated 2026 in Bali. Jia Curated is hard to describe, which is the first good sign. Not a fair, not a festival—250-odd brands, five days, a talks programme and a beach in Sanur. Dana Tomić Hughes went to Bali for the fifth edition, and came

August 30
Motel Bones, Ibiza Spirit: Inside The Whale Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast.

YellowtraceMotel Bones, Ibiza Spirit: Inside The Whale Narooma on the NSW Far South Coast. Some hotels are designed to be photographed. The Whale has been designed for the slower business of sitting still. Opened this June in Narooma on the NSW far South Coast, the boutique hotel pulls the spirit of 1970s Ibiz

August 26
Oscar Bravo by March Studio: Tailoring, Rewired for the Jet Age.

YellowtraceOscar Bravo by March Studio: Tailoring, Rewired for the Jet Age. Oscar Bravo's proposition is disarmingly simple—a tailored shirt should be worn on a Saturday morning as readily as in an office. March Studio's 70-square-metre flagship dismantles almost everything the category has trai

August 24
A Concrete Coastal Retreat on the Mornington Peninsula Where Three Cultures Meet.

YellowtraceA Concrete Coastal Retreat on the Mornington Peninsula Where Three Cultures Meet. Perched above Port Phillip Bay at Mount Martha, Mori House marks Portuguese practice Aires Mateus's first Australian project, realised with Melbourne firm MA+Co for Neometro's Jeff Provan. A loose cluster of off-form con

August 23
Three Generations, One Nervy Brief: Hannes Peer Reimagines Merano’s Aurora Hotel.

YellowtraceThree Generations, One Nervy Brief: Hannes Peer Reimagines Merano’s Aurora Hotel. Aurora has anchored Merano's Passer Promenade for almost sixty years. Now the third generation of the Aukenthaler family has handed the 59-room hotel to Hannes Peer Architecture and Feld72, with a brief of unusual nerve:

August 19
Ivy Studio Drops a Lesson in Japanese Restraint into a Raw Concrete Shell in Downtown Montreal.

YellowtraceIvy Studio Drops a Lesson in Japanese Restraint into a Raw Concrete Shell in Downtown Montreal. Occupying the ground floor of a Montreal's downtown high-rise, Minnibar by Ivy Studio is a restaurant and café that pairs a contemporary Italian menu with the atmospheric principles of Japanese minimalism. Concrete floor

August 17
Round and Round: Burr Turns a Madrid Apartment Into a System of Passage.

YellowtraceRound and Round: Burr Turns a Madrid Apartment Into a System of Passage. Burr knows how to have fun with colour, material and shape without ever tipping into excess. AZ06, a Madrid apartment reworked for a family of five, rotates around the building core and operates as a loop rather than a s

August 16
Box of Colour: Casa Alkymia, a Monteverde Apartment by Punto Zero.

YellowtraceBox of Colour: Casa Alkymia, a Monteverde Apartment by Punto Zero. Punto Zero treats colour as architecture in Casa Alkymia, a 230-square-metre Roman apartment in leafy Monteverde Vecchio. Working with Blu di Prussia, the studio tuned each room to its own register: powder pink wraps the

August 5
Two Worlds, One Warsaw Apartment, and a Bar Worth Building a Home Around.

YellowtraceTwo Worlds, One Warsaw Apartment, and a Bar Worth Building a Home Around. This Warsaw home is built around a split-level concept: a light, easy daytime zone upstairs, and a moody, glamorous evening world below. The standout is the basement bar, a patinated, backlit showpiece inspired by The Gr

August 3