Royal House Co designed Grow House in Oyama, Japan — via ArchDaily

Moon Hoon designed Two Moon in Goyang-Si, South Korea — via ArchDaily

minorormajor designed the Changtteul Church Restoration in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea — via Archdaily

This modern house on the southern coast of Australia is layered with concrete. The project, from Australian firm Takt Studio, puts the material to smart use with an interior outfitted in cool gray and an exterior wall made from massive blocks of recycled concrete that climb upward into a tiered landscaping wall.

The property has two structures—the main house, which sits on a slope and has a large veranda that looks toward the ocean; and a smaller guest house called the Jenga House for its stacked timber façade — via Curbed

This new build from Hide Work Custom of Taiwan is a BMX-inspired custom, and aims to recapture the pedal-powered magic from a client’s childhood – via Bike EXIF

arbol designed House in Ohasu, Japan — via ArchDaily

alarciaferrer arquitectos designed FM House in Argentina — via ArchDaily

This Buff & Hensman house in Eagle Rock, California, has never been on the market since it was constructed back in 1968. Omar Paxson, a playwright, director and professor in the Occidental College theatre arts department, commissioned it, had it built and loved it for a long, long time. It is now in need of a new owner and perhaps a bit of work too — via WowHaus

Di Frenna Arquitectos designed Hilca House in Colima, Mexico — via ArchDaily

Thomas Lambert runs Elemental Custom Cycles from his workshop in the ancient Bavarian town of Neustadt an der Aisch. The goal was to make the CB550 look like Honda could have built it this way in the 70s — via Bike EXIF

LWK + Partners designed the LOOP Gallery in Chongqing, China — via ArchDaily

Designed by the Houston, Texas, architectural firm of Curtis & Windham Architects, the compound consists of three distinct buildings: a main living lodge; an owner’s casita with a large library, two bedrooms, and two baths; and a guest building with two bedrooms and two baths. The home sits on a bluff on 1,500 acres overlooking the Chama River, Abiquiu Lake, and Ghost Ranch — landscapes frequently captured by painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Instead of building a multi-story mansion in this desert environment, the architects sought to integrate the home into the surrounding plateaus. Estancia del Rio is on the market for $12,000,000 — via Curbed

Ash Tree House, designed by NVB Architects, is located in the village of Batcombe, Somerset, which is surrounded by picturesque countryside in the valley of the River Alham. But not too isolated, with the market town of Frome and Shepton Mallet just a short drive away and a train route to London from nearby Bruton too — via WowHaus

Christian Wassmann designed Sun Path House in Miami Beach, Florida — via ArchDaily

Thrive Motorcycle is undisputedly one of the world’s top custom shops and the team behind this very elegant build called T-051 — via Bike EXIF

Pablo Lanza Arquitetura + André Scarpa designed Pindaibeiras Residence in Brazil — via ArchDaily

Julio Zegers Arquitectos designed RH House in Cachagua, Chile — via ArchDaily

This 1960s modernist water tower in Assen, Holland is an ideal Grand Designs project. The Assen water tower was designed in 1960 by architect W ter Braake, replacing an older water tower nearby. It stands around 34m high and consists of a hexagonal shaft and a cylindrical reservoir with a flat roof extending out above. The good news for potential buyers is that the tower and its water reservoir (which has a capacity of 550,000 litres) was renovated back in 2007.

This is being offered to the right person for a symbolic value of just €1, who has the most feasible and realistic plan for responsible re-use within three years.. If you want it, the subsurface and adjacent plots of the water tower must be purchased as well, which seem to be owned by the local authority. The extra outlay will mean you will need to find a further €14,280 before you begin your Grand Design — via WowHaus

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Toufic Kalil House in Manchester, New Hampshire is now up for sale. One of only seven Usonian Automatic houses designed and constructed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

What is Usonian Automatic? Well, Usonian from the United States of America to denote a national style and Automatic because this was intended to be a new and easy way of building modular houses moderate in cost for the streamlined lifestyle of post-war Americans. Those houses used a concrete masonry building system, allowing materials to be manufactured and sent to the owners in a kit form for self-construction. The problem was that these large-scale puzzles were difficult to assemble, hence why so few actually made it from the drawing board into reality. This one required a total of 4,800 of the Usonian Automatic blocks. The people responsible for putting it together were Dr Toufic Kalil and his wife Mildred, who oversaw its construction back in 1955 — via WowHaus

SDH Studio Architecture + Design has recently completed the Pinecrest Residence, a modern house that’s located in Florida.

Taking advantage of the site’s oversized width, the design of the house was conceived as a series of strategically placed volumes that create interior and exterior courtyards — via Contemporist

The Clover Hill Foundry is a house with history. Originally built in the late 19th century, the interconnected brick buildings in Somers, New York, were first used as the hub for an ore mining operation. Later in the 1940s, three artists bought the dilapidated buildings, renovating them into standalone homes for their families. Today it’s home to Claire Benoist and Derek Kilner, a couple living in Brooklyn who were looking for a weekend escape outside the city.

When they purchased the foundry building in 2017, they brought on Ravi Raj, formerly an architect at Adjaye Associates, to transform the place into a rustic but modern retreat. Raj retained the best parts of the building’s original character—the thick brick walls, soaring ceilings, and wooden support trusses—and accentuated them with a coat of clean white paint that pops against the blackened wood floors — via Curbed

Nestled into the gently rolling hills of a 30-acre farm in Ringoes, New Jersey, this four-bed, three-bath farmhouse, now on the market for just over $1 million, seamlessly blends rustic and modern.

The stone bones of the house were originally built in the 1820s, but the residence got an upgrade from architect Bob Hillier in the 1970s that has it an unexpectedly contemporary feel. Hillier expanded the home’s footprint by building a new timber shell. The glass roof comes to a point over the stone-clad great room, allowing unobstructed sunlight to shine onto a freestanding stone wall retained from the original house — via Curbed

Located about an hour north of downtown Chicago, the suburb of Riverwoods, Illinois, was envisioned—according to Chicago Magazine—as a model town with an unusual goal: for homes to disappear into their natural surroundings. With thick forests next to the Des Plaines River, Riverwoods was an ideal spot for integrating buildings into the landscape, a tenet of the Prairie style of architecture.

More than 40 of the town’s original homes were designed by the self-taught architect Edward Humrich, an admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright known for building low-slung, glass-walled structures out of redwood, cypress, and brick. One of Humrich’s most impressive residences in Riverwoods is this two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath stunner built in 1969 — via Curbed

Tor Stuart-Barstad of ArchitecTor has designed a house in the hills near Phoenix, Arizona, that offers serenity and tranquillity for the home owners — via Contemporist

Nina Edwards Anker of nea studio, has completed the Cocoon House in Long Island, New York. The house received its name due to the walls that form a Cocoon shape towards the northern and western neighbours. The rounded enclosed half of the house provides shelter and privacy, while the cedar shingle cladding blends in with the architectural material palette of the historic neighbourhood — via Contemporist

Dating back to the 1950s, this Calvin Straub mid century modern house in Pasadena, California is pretty much the dream if you love that era. This house was designed back in 1957, the work of Calvin Straub around the same time as the partnership of Buff, Straub, and Hensman was formed — via WowHaus

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Omega is releasing a new edition in its popular Seamaster Diver 300M series. This latest watch is the most recent release to spring from the long partnership between the Bond franchise and the famed Swiss watch manufacturer — via WatchTime

This five-bedroom, seven-bath waterfront home is located on Biscayne Bay in the posh neighbourhood of Sunrise Harbour, the sprawling home boasts an impressive footprint with over 975 square metres. The home was designed by Miami-based Touzet Studio to take advantage of water views on 31m of bay frontage. From the street the home has two imposing stone-clad volumes, but from the bay all you see is a glass-filled stunner with a striking overhanging roof — via Curbed

FCR Original started with a 2015-model Triumph Thruxton and builders Sébastien Guillemot and Mathieu Ménard have produced an edgy roadster that’s ready to shred — via Bike EXIF

Alexandre Faccin designed Casa Vila Pinhal in Itirapina, Brazil — via ArchDaily

While a bit larger, the modern Skin Diver is very true to the design established by Longines when the original was launched in 1959. The 42mm steel case features a distinctive black PVD bezel, and warm tan dial markings pop against the clean, black dial. With 300m of water resistance and a soft rubber strap, the modern Skin Diver is ready for any adventure, aquatic or otherwise. Offered without a date function, the Skin Diver’s dial is balanced, legible, and has a character all its own — via HODINKEE

Turkel Design has recently completed the Axiom Desert House, a modern house in Palm Springs, California, that draws inspiration from mid century design — via Contemporist

The star-shaped modernism of this 1977 house in Kapellen, Belgium, is in largely original condition, at least architecturally — via WowHaus

This 1971 Norton Commando was a commission from a customer called Dan, who has dreamed of owning a Norton for a long time and finally got Retrospeed build him his ideal bike — via Bike EXIF