Design

Architecture Saville Isaacs has completed the Twin Houses, a modern two house project in Sydney, Australia, that at first glance looks like a single house, but is actually two — via CONTEMPORIST

As with all things vintage, what was a misstep back then is quirky and chic now, such as this reinterpretation of the Triumph bathtub, from French custom shop, BAAK Motocyclettes — via Bike EXIF

Kohei Kudo & Associates designed Higashimatsuyama House in Saitama, Japan — via ArchDaily

This 1956 home was designed by the iconic architect Cliff May, known to many as the father of the California ranch. This 116 square metre house boasts many of the architect’s trademark features. Despite its modest size, the house features glass gables, oak flooring, and walls of windows with an open-concept living room, dining room, and kitchen. The kitchen has received a modern update with frameless cabinets, quartz countertops, and stainless-steel appliances, as has the brick gas fireplace. 2350 South Osceola Street is on the market now for $479,000 — via Curbed

Prolific North Carolinian architect F Carter Williams designed more than 600 buildings in the region over his career, including the renovation of the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion and the Archives Library in Raleigh. But perhaps his most stunning building is Blue Haven, a 446 square metre house he created for his family in 1959. If you want to make the home your own sanctuary, 6612 Rest Haven Drive is on the market now for $1,700,000 — via Curbed

This 1957 home in Houston, Texas makes a statement from the street thanks to a peaked overhanging roof at the entryway, pink Roman brick, and Cypress trim. Dangling from the large wooden beam on the patio is a Sputnik lamp, the perfect accent to the teal front door and its gleaming chinoiserie plate. The captivating light fixture is an original feature of the house, designed by builder Donald Stotler. Stotler was so enthralled with the launch of the Sputnik space launch — which was also in 1957 — that he commissioned a Sputnik light fixture, earning the home the nickname the Sputnik house — via Curbed

Sam Crawford Architects designed Bouwman House in Sydney, NSW — via ArchDaily

A Parallel Architecture designed Paramount Residence in Austin, Texas — via ArchDaily

Dock4 Architecture designed Apollo Bay House on Bruny Island, Tasmania — via ArchDaily

This craftsman-style property in San Diego, California was built in 1908 by architects William Sterling Hebbard and Irving John Gill, the principals at one of the most prominent turn-of-the-century architecture firms in San Diego. The Hawley residence is a soon-to-be Mills Act-approved house on over three acres overlooking Mission Valley. The home is on the market for the first time in over 50 years — via Curbed

6a Architects designed Tree House in United Kingdom — via ArchDaily

PTArchitects designed BeiChen Mansion in Hainan, China — via ArchDaily

NVArquitetura designed AM House in Brazil — via ArchDaily

Architect Luigi Rosselli has given a fresh and contemporary update to a home in Bellevue Hill, NSW, that was originally designed in classic modernist style by the architect George Reeves in 1963 — via CONTEMPORIST

This is the latest example of Greubel Forsey’s GMT complication, which combines two double tourbillons with the GMT complication — via HODINKEE

Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, this modern house cuts a striking image next to the more traditional architecture of the neighbourhood. Designed by John Maniscalco Architecture, the Dolores Heights house aims to maximise its sweeping city views while still making the home, which is smack in the middle of the city, feel like a hideaway — via Curbed

Designed by the iconic architect Cliff May and built in 1974 in the Rancho Santa Fe Covenant about an hour north of San Diego, the 533 square metre ranch is on the market for the first time. May is remembered for combining the western ranch house and hacienda styles with modernism, and his skills are on full display — via Curbed

Edi Buffon lives in Sydney, Australia, where he works as an engineer. Outside office hours, he wrenches on bikes as Machine 1867, from a 35 square metre space inside a shared warehouse. Edi wasn’t really shopping for a KZ when he found this 1980 model. He had a lead on a bargain pair of Honda CB900s, and when he went to collect them, the owner threw in the forlorn Kawasaki. It wasn’t running — and yes, it was literally lying in the weeds — but Edi saw potential — via Bike EXIF

The 1930s William Kesling art deco ULM House in Los Angeles, California is up for sale. This is one of the few William Kesling designs left in Los Angeles and one that has been incredibly well-preserved — via WowHaus

Estudio Caballero Colón designed Can Canyís House in Mallorca, Spain — via ArchDaily

Drawing inspiration from a prototype military diver they developed in the 1960s, Tudor has just announced a wild new spin on the Black Bay, called the P01. With a 12-hour bezel and a new case shape defined by a four o’clock crown and a chunky bezel locking mechanism that uses a claw-like system fitted between the lugs, it’s a Black Bay, but not at all what we’ve come to expect from the form — via HODINKEE

MÉTODO designed La Peña Extension in Valle de Bravo, Mexico — via ArchDaily

DT Estúdio designed Ibiuna House MP in Brazil — via ArchDaily

The Panerai Submersible Bronzo (Ref. PAM00968) is a whopping 47mm Submersible diver, perhaps the most in-your-face bronze model yet from Panerai’s Laboratorio di Idee. It’s made of a honkin’ 161 grams of bronze, and you’ll find a sandblasted ceramic bezel insert on a bronze bezel. This watch is all bronze everything — via HODINKEE

RVArchitecture designed Barnhouse Werkhoven in Werkhoven, The Netherlands — via ArchDaily

Shinya Kimura of Chabott Engineering in Azusa, California, has a soft spot for the Yamaha SR400 and SR500. Crystal Trophy mates the engine from a 1978 SR500 with componentry from a 2018 SR400 — via Iron & Air

Built in 1984 this four bedroom, three bath stunner in Portland, Oregon is on the market for the first time in 30 years, the home was designed by Portland-based architect Robert Harvey Oshatz — via Curbed

Architecture Saville Isaacs has recently completed a new beach house located on Avoca Beach in NSW — via CONTEMPORIST

Nathan Good Architects has designed a new contemporary house that’s nestled into a bluff above the scenic Deschutes River in Central Oregon — via CONTEMPORIST

Ben Callery Architects has completed the Elemental House, a modern single storey house that’s located an hour north of Melbourne, Victoria — via CONTEMPORIST

Originally built in 1950 by David Henken, this six bedroom, six bath home in Bronxville, New York, is an updated take on Usonian architecture. In Bronxville, this 510 square metre home on .65 acres stands out in a sea of historic Tudors, Victorias, and Colonials. The house sits on a hill, with views onto nature from every room. In 2012, prominent architect Markus Dochantschi, founder of studioMDA and the former head of Zaha Hadid Architects in New York, expanded and modernised the traditional Usonian design — via Curbed

Located in Holyoke, a riverside town in central Massachusetts, this five bedroom, two bath Queen Anne Victorian is packed with historic charm. Intricate stained glass adds to the beauty, as does the home’s finely crafted woodwork used throughout. 1093 Dwight Street is on the market now for $314,900 — via Curbed

Joshua Mulders Architects designed Hunters Hill House in Sydney, NSW — via ArchDaily

This Geoffrey Prentiss to take advantage of the water views — via Curbed

The unique floorplan of this home in Burtchville Township on the shores of Lake Huron in Michigan was designed by architect William Kessler — a disciple of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus School — in 1976 with four triangular volumes joined like a sharp-angled hourglass and bisected by a hallway. With 490 square metres, the glass-box home boasts views of Lake Huron, colour-block cabinets, and plenty of floor-to-ceiling windows. A lower floor features a downright groovy red-shag conversation pit with fireplace. Located at 7738 Lakeshore Road, the home has been on and off the market since 2016 and is now asking $1,549,000 — via Curbed

Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura designed House in Samambaia in Petrópolis, Brazil — via ArchDaily

The last place you’d expect to find a Brough Superior SS100 is in the heartland of Russia, over 4,000km from the Nottingham factory where it was built. But that’s where this stunning example lives: in the Motorworld by V Sheyanov museum in the former closed city of Samara — via Bike EXIF

Atelier tao+c designed U-shape room in Shanghai, China — via ArchDaily

Two Feathers designed Featherston Studio in Melbourne, Victoria — via ArchDaily

This Frank Lapasso-designed art deco apartment in Chicago, Illinois has just gone up for sale. The block in Chicago’s Old Town, which is known as Theophil Studios, dates back to the 19th century. But in 1940, Frank Lapasso got hold of it and gave it the art deco/moderne makeover you see today. But the exterior isn’t the only selling point. The interior was reworked and maintains those good looks too. In fact, that’s the biggest surprise of all. Yes, it has been updated here and there, but it looks like much of the 1940 refit is still in place in this apartment — via WowHaus

Built in 1895 by local lumberman Miles McNair for his family, this 382 square metre, five bedroom, four bath home in Brodhead, Wisconsin features Victorian appeal with many original amenities — via Curbed

Gian Salis Architect designed House on a Slope in Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany–via ArchDaily

Solange Cálio Arquitetos designed Bourgainvile 2 House in Vila Imperial, Brazil — via ArchDaily

Jorge Marsino Prado designed Asia House, in Asia, Peru — via ArchDaily

Palm Springs, California, has plenty of jaw-dropping real estate, and the latest to catch our eye is this six bedroom, six bath stunner on 2.5 acres. It’s the home of Linda Johnson Rice, a renowned businesswoman who is CEO of the Johnson Publishing Company and an independent director at Tesla — via Curbed

Bobby Haas, of the Haas Moto Museum in Dallas, has built up a collection of 130-plus extraordinary motorcycles, and occasionally commissions them too. Craig Rodsmith is one of his protégés, and his incredible front wheel drive motorcycle is the latest resident of the hallowed halls — via Bike EXIF

New York City’s John F Kennedy International Airport has a new addition that’s a blast from the past. The airport recently introduced its first on-airport hotel that pays homage to the former Trans World Airlines (TWA). Once one of the country’s largest airlines, it began operations in 1930 and shuttered its doors in 2001; the Flight Center at JFK closed that same year. The expansive space has since been repurposed into a luxury accommodation aptly called TWA Hotel.

The TWA Flight Center was designed by renowned architect Eero Saarinen and built in 1962 — just as air travel was becoming commonplace for the general public. It features sweeping lines and an airy openness that although vintage, still feels contemporary. Rather than fighting this style, present-day architecture firms Lubrano Ciavarra, INC Architecture & Design, Beyer Blinder Belle, and Stonehill Taylor highlight the mid-century modern look — via My Modern Met

Phorm architecture + design designed One Room Tower in West End, Queensland — via ArchDaily

Casey Brown Architecture designed Hart House in Great Mackerel Beach, NSW — via ArchDaily

The Ulysse Nardin Freak NeXt (ref. 2505-250/00) is a unique concept watch. The movement is a calibre UN-25X, self-winding with Grinder automatic winding system, 12 Hz flying oscillator and Ulysse Nardin Anchor escapement, with a 70-hour power reserve. The platinum and titanium case is 45mm x 14.1mm in size, has a 30 metre water resistance, with a white rubber-coated bezel with Super-LumiNova — via HODINKEE