Olson Kundig Architects is famous for their brutally frank buildings. Like their simple manly shooters’ shelter, this lookout on the bleak Northern San Juan Archipelago has a rugged masculine presence. The gruff materials are locally quarried — via Home Design Find
Pionen – White Mountain designed by Albert France-Lanord Architects is housed in a former 1,200 sqm Cold War bunker (originally built as a World War II bunker); an amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm.
One of the original founders of WikiLeaks is architect John Young — via ArchDaily
The One
is so new it doesn’t appear to be featured on the Fat Attack website, but I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of it as it does the rounds of the shows. And if you’re interested, Fat Attack will build one for you. The price is 110,000 Euros, or US$145,000. Any takers? — via Bike EXIF
What better way to showcase the beauty of natural stone and traditional masonry than to offset it with something strikingly linear and boldly modern? This run-down farmhouse and barn combination and their fresh concrete additions might look too rustic on the one hand or contemporary on the other, but together they pack a powerful visual punch — via Dornob
This is a video showing the automatic sliding door I built in my house. It is powered by air, it is fully enclosed in the wall, and it has the appearance of a standard interior door — via uiproductions
Kaylene Kau‘s prosthetic arm isn’t your typical robot-arm. It doesn’t even have fingers — it’s flexible tentacle design would make for an excellent replacement hand for wielding a lightsabre.
As a part of a student project, Kau was asked to push the boundaries of current upper-limb prosthetic design
. Powered by a small motor and a set of cables, the tentacle shaped prosthetic arm curls its claw to grip objects — via DVICE
The Smooth Building is located in a residential area called San Pedro Garza Garcia in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, a place of beauty with an excellent location that gives a gorgeous sight of the Sierra Madre Oriental at its South facade. The challenge of this project was to design an office and a house in the same lot taking advantage of the maximum space of every single area. For this reason it was necessary to mix the uses of house and office between the four levels, obtaining the best location for each space inside of the building — via ArchDaily
Like the face of the watch (will come to it in no time,) the DW 8014 movement features beautiful art-deco-style decoration with Cotes de Geneve motif. Its surfaces are satin-brushed, circular grained, polished and beveled.
The caliber, the first in the brand’s history, which is made solely in-house, is protected by a majestic rose gold case that sports DeWitt’s signature imperial columns pattern on the flanks and an oversized rose gold crown at 3 o’clock, which is adorned with a ring made in blackened titanium featuring the “W” monogram — via World Watch Review
Exclusive barn finds don’t get much rarer or more exciting than this: here’s a privateer racing motorcycle built to order in 1928 by Moto Guzzi, just seven years after the company began manufacturing. The story comes from Adam Bolton of Italian Motor Magazine, and you just couldn’t make it up — via Bike EXIF
Concord says the new C1 Big Date Radar is endowed with a rugged look, a strong character and a distinctive personality
. They have a point. The dial presents an array of levels and textures with hour markers that float above the fray. The 3.3 mm-thick sapphire crystal is secured by a bezel that is is straddled by eight black rubber-clad protective tabs, anchored by side screws — via WatchTime
Off the coast of New Zealand, there are several very isolated islands that have no mains electricity. The very few residents eking out a living from farming or tourism here on the Great Barrier Island, live in the same way that people did decades ago – they have long collected rainwater, for example – but now they also use solar to power their simple houses — via Home Design Find
The Jewel Box is designed to retail precious stones, and accommodate administrative offices. The building is shaped by both program and the geometries of crystals — via ArchDaily
Trying to make extra press for its boutique in the Taipei 101 building that still holds the title of the tallest not only in Taiwan but the whole Asia, the Italian brand offers a new Panerai Luminor 1950 10 Days GMT Taipei 101 Limited Edition automatic watch — via World Watch Review
Seem like the Swiss watchmaker gradually commences sales of their new Tag Heuer Monaco Vintage Chronograph watch (Ref. CAW211B.FC6241). According to the corporate press release, the watch will be powered by the well-known TAG Heuer Calibre 11 automatic movement, which is essentially ETA 2892-A2 base caliber with a Chronograph module from Dubois Depraz — via World Watch Review
The Ribera del Duero region, one of Spain’s foremost wine producing areas, is home to a new winery for the Faustino Group. The Faustino Winery is Foster + Partners first winery and was an opportunity to look afresh at the building type, using the natural topography of the site to aid the wine-making process and create the optimum working conditions. The trefoil plan reflects the principal process stages, with the operational support and visitors facilities strategically located in the center of the building. The public areas are on a mezzanine level along with a restaurant with views of the surrounding landscape. Two volumes house the ageing processes and are strategically buried into the natural slope of the site taking advantage of the thermal cooling benefits of the earth — via ArchDaily
While working on this project the main question that was raised was how to integrate a contemporary facility into the existing ambient of a small Istrian town, how to incorporate something modern into the existing area, which in itself entails a string of details and functions that considerably vary from the rural image of surrounding households, all the while striving to keep the balance with the community in general — via ArchDaily
Two years after the opening of its manufacture, Hysek introduces an extrapolation of the tourbillon in a masterly realisation where transparency is at the heart of an ultra modern design, whose sole ambition is to reveal the mechanical magic of this outstanding movement. Designed, developed and manufactured internally, this exclusive and intensely square calibre with manual winding beats at the rhythm timed by a flying tourbillon endowed with avant-gardist
balance manufactured in titanium — via Watchluxus
Sited precariously on the steep and thickly forested hills of Pelourus Sound overlooking the Marlborough Sound in New Zealand’s South Island, this remote retreat for two brothers posed an enormous challenge to build — via Home Design Find
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