Design

Rental housing with built-in garage for bike enthusiasts. Site is a narrow alley-like grounds of the only flagpole site frontage facing the road. In urban centres due to low rental housing has been developed safe bicycle parking, theft, arson and damage has occurred often on-street parking. That the user needs by bike is a particularly high quality, providing a built-in garage for bikes of all dwelling units were required — via Architects Akiyoshi Takagi | NE apartment

This is one of the first creations from Maria Motorcycles of Lisbon, Portugal, and it’s a great start. Maria’s philosophy is to get to the essence of a bike and keep it simple, and that’s what they’ve done with this super-clean custom based on a 2010 Triumph Thruxton. The owner was tired of the crouched riding position, and wanted a bike with a more open cockpit — via Bike EXIF

Richard Pollock is having good problems. Demand for his Mule street-trackers is running ahead of supply, so much so that customers are now buying his personal motorcycles out from underneath him. Actually, even Pollock’s own bikes are work-related. This 2007 Triumph Bonneville T100 that he was keeping for himself also served as testbed for products being developed by Streetmaster, the small Southern California speed house Pollock does work for — via Bike EXIF

Designed by James & Mau Arquitectura, the very hip Casa El Tiemblo is made of four 40-foot long containers that have been painted a cheerful shade of blue — via Home Design Find

Quite a long title and this listed 1920s Robert Mallet-Stevens-designed art deco Villa Poiret property in Île-de-France, near Paris, France has quite a long and complex history.

Sat around 25 miles out of Paris, it was originally designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens for fashion designer Paul Poiret, with building starting in 1923. Unfortunately, the house, one of three designed by Mallet-Stevens in France, never got completed at the time due to a lack of funds / Poiret’s bankruptcy.

It was left as a shell until after the war, when architect Paul Boyer, who was entrusted to complete the works, whilst preserving the original design (although he added a moderne touch, which was the rage at the time). It stayed in the same ownership until 1985, stayed empty until 1999, then was bought and restored to its former glory, using the post-war plans.

Price on application, but we suspect Villa Poiret doesn’t come cheap — via WowHaus

The Concept of Comprehensive Renovational Pixel modelhouse [SAKO Architects]. The modelhouse of high-rise residential building with sale centre to be in accordance with Skip-Floor Dwelling House’s buildings for ten thousand household — via ArchDaily

There’s a sweet spot in custom motorcycle building—a point where performance and beautiful aesthetics collide. Spain’s Radical Ducati hit this spot time after time, and they’ve done it again with ‘Pantahstica’. You could be forgiven for thinking it’s a Ducati Pantah, given the color scheme, but it’s actually based on a Cagiva Alazzurra, a mid-80s touring derivative of the Pantah — via Bike EXIF

Bell & Ross has announced the Vintage BR126 sport, a two-counter chronograph powered by an automatic ETA movement. It will be availble this July in either a stainless steel ($4,800) or black leather strap ($4,500) — via WatchTime

An interesting build, but this Hubert Thomas-designed 1930s art deco five-bedroom property in Neston, Cheshire has been modernised considerably inside.

Not that it’s the end of the world of you want authenticity. The structure of this 1935 build is still faithful to the original design, with the inside being just ‘decor’. Little details like the parquet flooring are still inside too. Get some windows in keeping with the original design, tone down that interior and you could have a period gem once more.

The asking price is £499,950 — via WowHaus

Classified Moto are just turning out winner after winner. It’s hard to believe the Richmond, VA-based hotshop has only been operating for two years, but owner John Ryland now has orders for 13 bikes on the go. This is his latest, based on a 1989 Yamaha Virago XV1100. The machine has a more aggressive look than previous CM bikes: it’s angular, muscular and low-slung. We just had a gallery-type show in NYC, and everyone who sat on the bike put on their ‘mean biker’ face, laughs Ryland — via Bike EXIF

A gigantic yellow foyer five stories high dwarfs the small human by the doorway of La Cite Des Affaires in Saint-Etienne by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, yet with its childlike and cheery colour and goofy windows, the entry is not forbidding or grand.

These simultaneously imposing and yet almost comic spaces that all frame various sky views in surrealistic ways are created as ways into a government office building complex — via Home Design Find

This Kawasaki W800 custom is the most British looking build I’ve seen for a while. So it’s ironic that it was built by a German company. It’s called the Lindy Bob and it comes from LSL Motorradtechnik of Krefeld. In stock form, the W800 is a tribute to 1960s British iron but LSL has repositioned the bike in the 1930s. Check out those boardtracker-style drop bars, the small black headlight, and the 18” spoked wheels with black anodized aluminum rims — via Bike EXIF

The Clerc Geneve Hydroscaph Steel Central Chronograph comes in a limited edition of 500 pieces in choice of metals (with or without DLC finish) — via Perpetuelle

From the outside, a fairly unassuming old Welsh chap, but look inside and you’ll notice that the eight-bedroom Moriah Chapel in Dolwyddelan, Gwynedd, North Wales is quite the modern home.

In fact, that’s an understatement. This grade-II listed Calvinistic Methodist chapel, which sits within the Snowdonia National Park, is something of a luxurious hangout, using the original design for some stylish open plan living. Oh yes, you’ve got some really special scenery on your doorstep too.

So plenty of space, but for plenty of money. The guide price is £1,100,000 — via WowHaus

this 1973 Norton Commando is owned by Florent Graglia of Toulouse, but it used to belong to his father, who rode it from 1975 to 1982. When my brother was born, Graglia recalls, this bike was parked in a garage near Nice. The bike slept there for about 28 years. At Christmas 2010, I said to myself, that legendary bike is there, and it’s my legacy! I have to do something,

With the help of his brother, Graglia resurrected the Norton and transported it from Nice to Toulouse. But the bike was not in good condition, and needed sympathetic hands to restore it. So Graglia contacted Vincent Prat from the Southsiders MC, and the restoration began — via Bike EXIF