The Steve McQueen-inspired Tag Heuer Monaco has ruled the roost for years when it comes to Le Mans-related watches, but here’s another tasty and related timepiece that’s a fraction of the price – the C70 Aston Martin DBR1 watch by Christopher Ward — via Retro To Go

On both, the front and the lake side, this sculptural villa shows very expressive and ornamental facades. Facing Mount Pilatus the white concrete elements are dotted with circular openings that allow glimpses into the two-levelled orangery with its exotic plants, as well as the lounge, the guest tract and the staircase accessed through one of the openings at the ground floor — via ArchDaily

The new Academia Blackstream Chronograph watch has obviously been inspired by a sports car universe. The black velvet face of the new DeWitt watch makes one feel its sporty elegance. The classical seconds are featured via a counter at 9 o’clock. It is visually balanced by another counter at 3 o’clock that will remind you an eye-catching speedometer of a racing car. The two sub-dials are interconnected by a “radiator-grille” that will make you think of the mechanical components of a car motor. The dial also demonstrates an elegant sunray pattern — via Infoniac

The peculiarity of the TX 800 Series watch is its linear chronograph minute hand featured at 9 o’clock. The dial of the watch demonstrates a sporty design. It is completed by hour indices, skeleton hour and minutes hands that are provided with luminescent inserts to guarantee perfect night-time visibility. The dial is shielded by a sapphire crystal — via Infoniac

After finishing his Hollyhock House and the Imperial Hotel, Frank Lloyd Wright began to push his ideas concerning patterned concrete blocks. Utilizing the textile block, Wright built four houses – La Miniatura, the Ennis House, the Freeman House and the Storer House – as a way to truly challenge himself, as he explained in Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland’s book, Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas, What about the concrete block? It was the cheapest (and ugliest) thing in the building world. It lived mostly in the architectural gutter as an imitation of rock-faced stone. Why not see what could be done with that gutter rat? Steel rods cast inside the joints of the blocks themselves and the whole brought into some broad, practical scheme of general treatment, why would it not be fit for a new phase of our modern architecture? It might be permanent, noble beautiful— via ArchDaily

Let’s say you get a lot of floor traffic or you have a kid that jabs Hot Wheels into the ground. Maybe you have a dog that runs in circles, and you want a strong wood floor. You’ll probably look for a high Janka number — a measure of hardness — to find something that will hold up against denting and wear. You might even consider this hardened strand woven floor from Cali Bamboo, which took home a 5,000+ pound score in recent tests — via Jetson Green

This is the bike that Wakako Togashi, designer at Hide Motorcycle, rides to work every day. It’s based on a 2002 Harley-Davidson Sportster 883R, and Wakako describes it as “very comfortable riding” — via Bike EXIF