Design

The geometry only pretends to answer the question of how a house can be deformed by events occurring within the surrounding landscape, be they far or close to it. The operation was compatible with a particular request of the client: a clear division of interior spaces. These were finally connected through voids that separate but still permit a visual relation between them, as if they were smaller houses — via ArchDaily

Landfall is an updating of an old mid century home that makes for a sophisticated and quirky design update from the always original and quirky Bates and Masi.

The two could not be more different. Bates is a Southerner in his eighties who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, and Masi who grew up the child of a couple of artists, was fresh out of Harvard grad school when the two got together. But they share a lighthearted approach to architecture
— via Home Design Find

This lovely Moto Guzzi 1000 SP custom is the latest creation from prolific Italian custom shop Officine RossoPuro. It’s called the TTre—a reference to Guzzi’s classic T3 nomenclature and the Isle of Man TT. As an SP, this is one of the last Guzzis to use the desirable Tonti frame: it also sported a large windshield and a rather awkward lower fairing, with cutouts for the huge V-twin cylinders. Today, this makes the SP less desirable and therefore cheaper than most classic Guzzis. That’s good news for builders like Filippo Barbacane, who appreciate the underlying aesthetics of the bike — via Bike EXIF

FyF is located in the outskirts of Rosario [the second largest city in Argentina], approximately 300 km north of Buenos Aires. The small house of approximately 200 m2 is built in a new residential development adjacent to a traditional neighborhood. FyF can be described as a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and flat homogeneity of the Pampas landscape in a domestic setting. The project was conceived as a monolithic solid, a monochromatic form punctuated only by subtle inflections that establish a complex physical relationship among the different spaces while maintaining a sense of identity and privacy between them — via ArchDaily

This is a watch that I really never thought was going to be made. It started out as a concept watch called the Galibier based upon a concept car from Bugatti with the same name. Fabien Cacheux designed it to have a perlage decorated drum case, Bugatti logo, and an interesting strap system. Less than a year later, a more practical version of the piece is being made – but in very limited quantities and it will be called the Cacheux Elephant Automatic — via A Blog to Read

The inspiring imagination of Antoni Gaudí undoubtedly reveals itself in one of his most poetic and artistic designs for a building, Casa Batlló. His synthesis of animal shapes, vine-like curves, hints of bone and skeleton, and his use of lustrous colored bits of glazed ceramic and glass create a masterpiece that will forever astonish its observers — via ArchDaily

This unique gift item is a book filled with 20 pages of fun, (mostly white) pages that provide for some imaginative activities. The book includes 5 Crayons (snowball white, polar white, frost white, igloo white and the popular Arctic white) — via Toronto Zoo

With more people working remotely, and entrepreneurs needing that extra room that the house just did not come with, the OfficePOD is a great solution. You would have the convenience of being at home while really being in a corner of your own backyard.  Now that is a commute I could live with and gets me out of the house.   Built from recycled, recyclable and sustainable materials have been chosen wherever possible, desk and books shelves are built in.  The power is provided via a discrete and protected connection to the house or garage; IT and phone connectivity is generally wireless but can be similarly cabled.  The POD is provided with a secure locking system of the highest quality — via 2Modern Blog

The bike is owned by Pat McGowan of Northern NJ. I was going to try and build a bike myself, he says. I started getting parts together and went to Dodge of Bling’s Cycles to order a frame and other stuff of his I liked. But after talking with him, I decided I would be better off letting him build it — via Bike EXIF

The Vacheron Constantin Overseas Dual Time Automatic Steel and Titanium is a rare breed of sport watches with bold and energetic appearance that can be worn both with jeans and polo and with more formal dress — via World Watch Review

This apartment house Triangolo, located in Nitra, Slovakia, was created as a dialog between natural predispositions, town and the construction site locality — via ArchDaily

It all starts with the logo. The little Swiss flag made into a strong looking shield. It is a slight modification of the logo of the actual Swiss Military. A not so subtle reminder of the value of the Swiss watch industry, and the strength of the brand — via A Blog to Read

Located in Racine, Wisconsin, the SC Johnson and Son Administration Building is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important statements about the nature of office buildings. HF Johnson Jr commissioned Wright to design a worldwide headquarters administration building for the family company and in 1936 Wright’s drawings were approved and the building officially opened in April of 1939 — via ArchDaily

Social housing settlement Poljane is located near a busy crossroads on the outskirts of Maribor. It consists of four buildings (2 slabs + 2 towers), a total of 130 social apartments. Project – limited with the existing rigid urban plan of the area, which had to be followed to a dot – replaces the missing exterior public spaces with collective areas inside the buildings — via ArchDaily

A contemporary residential passive house that correlates with the region was the basic request of the owner. The themes of this architecture are the linear design, logical arrangement of the floor plans and the application of wood as a building material — via ArchDaily

The fact that a large portion of land lies three meters below street level and the typical conformation of this urban batch 10X40m enabled a large open space that is straightforward and transparent. This space is defined in one side by the north face structure, a parallel free wall which houses a library containing 7,500 volumes and on the other side by a parallel block, an all closed space – a block with three stories that contains all the services, equipment and dormitories — via ArchDaily

In 1990 Reykjavík Geothermal Heating Authority launched an open competition for a housing design for the hot water wells. PK Arkitektrar’s provided the winning design out of over 80 entries. This is the first of these buildings with others scheduled accordingly. These structures will stand as a symbol of the city of Reykjavík’s commitment to the utilization of the natural resource — via ArchDaily