Sometimes it’s tough to remember that in the days before quartz, when mechanical wristwatch was a redundant phrase, that there were mechanical watches at all price points. Small online menswear brand Kent Wang is trying to remind us though with its Bauhaus watch, a cool mix of modern and classic design with a price tag that won’t break the bank — via HODINKEE

A light-filled home by UID Architects in Hiroshima for a family with two children brings bits of sky in from every angle — via Home Design Find

Here’s the latest custom to roll out of the Madrid workshop of Cafe Racer Dreams. Once again, there’s an off-road influence—but this time, the Spanish workshop has taken a dirt bike and realigned it for road use, rather than the other way round.

CRD #19 is called Apolo and is based on a 1991 Honda XR600. After a complete strip-down, the entire rear of the chassis was rebuilt to take the new seat unit and a sleek new tank—stolen from a Honda CG 125. It’s completely transformed the look of Honda’s venerable thumper without compromising off-road ability — via Bike EXIF

Once upon a time, this 1970s Myron Goldfinger-designed modernist property in West Orange, New Jersey, USA was the future. Now it’s just a quirky (but appealing) relic of a bygone era.

Although inside, this single-storey property has obviously been lavished with some attention in recent years, looking every bit the modern home once you get through the door, with a touch of retro thrown in to suit the surroundings. But once you get back outside, you can still sit back and admire the wonderful space age curves of this 1977 property. It really is a wonder.

The house is being pitched as both a home and a weekend getaway, although the price of $699,000 probably leans more to the former — via WowHaus

Inside the LUC 8HF is a new movement for Chopard, the LUC 01.06-L. Though this is the first movement to receive the 8Hz COSC-certified escapement, it likely won’t be the last. Instead of developing the escapement solely for one movement, Chopard has smartly created a system that can be adapted to work with almost any of their LUC movements. So rather than pushing forward with only one particular watch, Chopard has chosen to develop technology they can apply more broadly in years to come — via HODINKEE

this customized 1996 S1 Lightning is the bike that Buell should have built in the first place. And ironically, the tank and the headlight come from a raid on the Milwaukee parts bin: the tank is from a 1998 White Lightning, and the headlight is from a V-Rod. With a Ducati 999 rear subframe and tail section grafted on, this Lightning is positively good lookin’.

It’s the work of Paul Shore, who runs the Canadian workshop Motorrad Performance. Shore bought the bike new and immediately started customizing it, but the incarnation we’re looking at here is a recent one—with fresh styling and a major performance boost — via Bike EXIF

Petre Island (sometimes called Petra Island) is an 11-acre, heart-shaped island 47 miles from Manhattan. While Wright hand-picked the site himself in 1949, and drew up plans for a 5,000 square foot dream house the following year, budget concerns forced him to scale down his vision, resulting in the construction of a smaller guest cottage.

Fast-forward 53 years later, and the island’s new owner, John Massaro, decided to make those long-sitting plans reality; he hired architect and Wright scholar Thomas Heinz, who used ArchiCAD to model aspects of Wright’s design that weren’t obvious from the original renderings and updated the house with some modern amenities.

While the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation refuses to accept the house as authentic (they even tried to sue Massaro for claiming so), that hasn’t stopped AHALife, the web site featuring the island for sale, from proudly selling the spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house for US$19,900,000 — via ArchDaily

This 1,200 square-foot home was built with six used shipping containers in Felton, California.  Designed by Modulus, the home was the subject of a 2012 Citation Award from the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the AIA.  The architect camped on the site to study light and other characteristics, according to Dwell, and designed the layout to reduce construction grading.  The containers were left exposed but painted, and the walls were covered with drywall for a clean interior look.  Inside, an atrium was used for light and to radiate heat throughout the home — via Jetson Green