[I’m not a designer but the attorney hired by a designer. I’m informing the client over the phone that he’s being sued for not paying the amount specified.]Me: “Good afternoon, my name is [xxx], representing [designer] and [company]. We’re calling about payment that has not yet been…
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The main idea of this house, built about 20 km from Moscow – a deliberately rigid symmetry, but not as a synonym for boring regularity, as well as a symbol of agility and courage — via ArchDaily
This $18 million, 9,000 square foot, luxury mansion designed by European designer Marc Canadell epitomizes the glamour of the movies — via Home Design Find
The Museum for African Art, New York, and Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies, Committee on Global Thought, and Center for African Education have announced the creation of Sightlines: New Perspectives on African Architecture and Urbanism, a lecture series devoted to Africa’s rapidly changing urban environments.
Sightlines will comprise talks by distinguished practitioners of architecture, urban planning, and architectural theory, each of whom will apply his or her particular area of expertise to the exploration of contemporary African cities as unique built environments. The lectures, which will be open to the public free of charge (see schedule below), will examine the architectural, social, physical, and emotional contours of the cities, while also addressing the global relevance and applicability of this emerging field of discourse. Sightlines additionally includes a lecture by Senegalese artist Viye? Diba, whose work is tied to urbanization– via ArchDaily
Rammed earth structures make great use of local and sustainable construction materials, but pressing and curing each layer can be tough to do for small-scale contractors or do-it-yourself types.
Hence, this ingenious portable hydraulic press from MecoConcept, which can pump out finished blocks in thirty seconds right on site. Set on wheels, the brick-making machine can be moved along as needed, requiring only one person to work it at a time.
Styled after LEGOs, each pressed-mud building block is shaped with bumps and grooves on each surface for easy stacking and side-by-side placement. Seismic-resident, stackable up to two stories, these simple bricks pack a lot into a small unit — via Dornob
The original builder of Park Avenue South was also the house’s first resident, who made the most of his triangular plot by allowing the side of the building to fan out to meet the line of the adjacent public footpath. On the ground floor this resulted in an additional fillet of space splitting the living and dining rooms. It was the divisional nature of this space (used as a utility room) that the client wanted to resolve. Further to improving the organisation of the plan, the Client was keen to enhance the relationship between the house and garden; the existing views were restricted in both orientation and size — via ArchDaily
Most café racers are built by stripping down a stock bike and adding lightness
. This one, however, was built from the ground up and designed around an Aprilia RSV motor. It’s from Taimoshan Cycle Works, a Welsh company run by John Pellew — via Bike EXIF
Flansburgh Architects designed a new Science Building for Hawaii Preparatory Academy.
In this new 6,100 square foot renewable-energy research laboratory, students will study, design, and evaluate renewable-energy technologies. The award-winning facility meets the Living Building Challenge, a threshold that exceeds the USGBC’s Platinum LEED rating. It produces all of its own energy needs, harvests rainwater to meet its potable water needs, and provides natural ventilation and views to 100% of its occupied spaces. Sophisticated energy models were used to form the shape and fenestration of the building during the design — via CONTEMPORIST
Pequignet is also a true manufacture, and makes some of their own movements. For the rest they use Swiss-made ETA movements.
The Moorea Triumph collection has a number of pieces. The simple of which runs about $1,000, looks very Sinn/Bell & Ross in the dial, and has an ETA 2892 automatic movement. The collection have 44mm wide cases that have a variety of finishes and materials. The cases are also thin, with three-hand models being only about 10mm thick. Pequignet likes PVD black over steel, but there are also models in gold. Some of the bezels are more classic, and other looks to be highly Breitling inspired. The watches are pretty solid, and of course there is that interesting bracelet they have. The bracelet comes in at least two forms. One of large metal links with smaller joints, and others where the larger links are actually rubber — via A Blog to Read
As Geoff mentioned here on BLDGBLOG a few weeks ago, we spent our last full day in Australia touring the Li-Sun Exotic Mushroom Farm with its founder and owner, Dr Noel Arrold. Three weeks earlier, at a Sydney farmers’ market, we had been buying handfuls of his delicious Shimeji and Chestnut mushrooms to make a risotto, when the vendor told us that they’d all been grown in a disused railway tunnel southwest of the city, in Mittagong — via BLDGBLOG
Osprey Nest, designed b Jones Studio, is located in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. Designed to reflect its natural surroundings and culture, the home also explores shadows and materiality — via ArchDaily
In 1960, the young Spanish manufacturer Bultaco decided to make a name for itself and claim some long distance records. It built this stunningly beautiful 175cc machine, and took it to the Autodrome de Montlhéry just south of Paris. It was a successful trip, with five records in the bag. Best of all, the Bultaco Cazarécords is still in running order, and in the care of the remarkable Museu de la Moto de Bassella in Spain, a two-hour ride northwest of Barcelona — via Bike EXIF
Canadian architectural firm YH2 designed La Cornette, a country house in Quebec, Canada.
Built on the slope of a small hill, La Cornette is a country house open to the pastoral landscape that surrounds it. Under a soaring roof resembling a nun’s cornet wimple is a roomy dwelling modelled on traditional Quebec houses of old that lodged large families and their relatives. This house for celebrations and holidays, designed for two families, is set into the naturally uneven terrain in a way that brings each level into direct contact with the surrounding natural environment. It offers a resting place for all guests under its large gable in a series of bedrooms and unusual sleeping areas — via CONTEMPORIST
The new Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Dual Time automatic watch finds another good use for the base caliber designed by AP’s sister brand.
The AP Caliber 2392/2846 that powers the watch is based on the well-known JLC 889 base movement designed and produced by Jaeger LeCoultre — via World Watch Review
Sometimes codes and laws help save priceless historic properties. Still, try telling that to a homeowner who wishes to remodel or expand their residence, like the folks who live in this mid-1800s timber cottage.
From the front, Carter Williamson Architects had to leave the building largely alone per local protections in Sydney, Australia — via Dornob
This year the Swiss brand will issue a new take on the last year’s Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858 ExoTourbillon Chronographe timepiece. The new Montblanc Collection Villeret 1858 Tourbillon Bi-Cylindrique watch will feature almost the same case, but will be powered by a different movement.
The movement in question is the new hand-wound Manufacture Calibre MB M65.63.
Besides a beautifully executed tourbillon escapement that occupies the upper part of the dial (it is in fact the movement’s mainplate that serves as a dial), the M65.63’s main point of interest is the pair of cylindrical balance-springs — via World Watch Review
The house, designed by TheHeder Partnership, is situated on a typical suburban plot and is framed between two edge gables. The house is based on a contemporary study of the archetype the gable house
which is widely spread in SA, Australia and other countries. This type is usually a single story house connected to the ground with two side gables and a central entrance with a thatched pitch roof. This house takes these “classic” elements and adapts them to our times — via ArchDaily
YN-13 House, designed by Morris Sato Studio, is organized on its site as three independent volumes enclosing a courtyard-like space with a swimming pool at its center. The biased cut of the main house’s pitched roof and its protruding corners underscore primary views of the landscape and ocean. Conceived as a buoyant mass and inspired by historic Japanese residential structures in Kyoto and Kanazawa, the house’s unique siding design of western red cedar vertical battens and clapboard merge with the standing seams of the stainless steel roofing to visually unify the wall and roof surfaces — via ArchDaily
The journey down a winding road and thru a pine tree forest ends at the Buisson Residence, designed by Robert Gurney Architect. Situated on a grass knoll and commanding views of Lake Anna in central Virginia, the house emerges as a long, white painted brick wall with a copper clad volume cantilevered above the wall — via ArchDaily
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