The glass floor in the bathroom of this house [Hernandez Silva] in Guadalajara, Mexico looks down an unused 15-floor elevator shaft — via Boing Boing
This five bedroom contemporary modernist property in Dorset is located in the highly desirable Avon Castle Estate
and in a private plot with views across the Avon valley and surrounding countryside, the house offers 10,000sq.ft of accommodation — and not just any old accommodation. We’re talking luxury here, with pretty much everything you would demand in a house, should money be no object.
Originally on the market for that £3,000,000 asking price, the agent is now asking around £1,000,000. Not cheap, but a massive reduction, that’s for sure. More images at the agent’s website — via WowHaus
Spain is not an easy country to import a motorcycle into. But perseverance has paid off for the four guys at La Corona Motorcycles. After months of paperwork and weeks of wrenching, they have a sharp XS650 cafe to be proud of. It’s a classic commuter custom, stripped back and spruced up, rebuilt in the style becoming increasing popular in mainland Europe — via Bike EXIF
Carter Williamson Architects have designed the Rozelle Terrace house in Sydney, Australia — via CONTEMPORIST
Suzuki’s T500 was a rare beast: a large-capacity two-stroke road bike that sold in big numbers in the US. And it’s not hard to see why. For a late 60s motorcycle, it was light, fast, and blessed with agile handling. And more reliable than most four-stroke twins. I.ve always thought that the stock T500 was a good-looking bike, but this replica racer is … quite something else.
The machine comes from the collection of Boris Bob
Guynes, a hugely skilled fabricator and model-maker based in California — via Bike EXIF
Not just any old rental property, this is a 1930s Connell, Ward and Lucas-designed grade II-listed modernist house in Worcester Park, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey.
A team of architects that worked in the modern house market of the 1930s, Amyas Connell (the first of those names) was also responsible for one of the most famed modern houses in Britain prior to that — the High & Over house in Amersham, which was up for sale a couple of years back.
More images on the listing, with a price of £3,250 per month, should you want to rent it — via WowHaus
In December 1999, Sotheby’s made watch-auction history. The auction house sold the so-called Henry Graves Supercomplication — a pocketwatch originally commissioned from Patek Philippe by noted watch collector Henry Graves, Jr, and which featured 24 complications — for an astounding $11,002,500, still the world record for any timepiece at auction. Last week, Sotheby’s announced that it will hold a single-owner sale on 14 June 2012 in New York that will include more rare watches from the collections of Graves and his grandson, Reginald Pete
H Fullerton, Jr, a noted collector and connoisseur in his own right — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Giovanni D’Ambrosio designed the Under the Moonlight house in Mount Hotham, Australia — via CONTEMPORIST
BRM has launched a new series of watches directly inspired by the most significant fighter aircrafts of WWII: The Spitfire, the P-51 Mustang North American and the Mitsubishi Zero. Planes that would have been familiar to every schoolboy growing up in wartime.
Known as Warbirds
during World War II, these aircraft were flown by intrepid and brave young pilots. They spearheaded their nations’ air forces during the Second World War and filling history books with tales of skill and derring-do.
The BRM timepieces are crafted like a fuselage, complete with inserted rivets, propeller-shaped hands, cases featuring roundels from different countries, horns that reference exhaust pipes and harness-inspired leather straps. With this new collection, BRM once again demonstrates its deep commitment to speed, high-performance and bold engineering — via Watchuseek
Architect David Jameson has sent us images of the NaCl house in Bethesda, Maryland — via CONTEMPORIST
Greg Hageman’s strength is an unerring eye for visual balance and stance. For the XV920, he crafted a new rear subframe and installed a MotoLanna seat originally destined for a Yamaha SR500. The tank is a Benelli, but not just any old Benelli: it’s from a 1967 Wards Riverside Mojave, itself an interesting footnote in the annals of motorcycle history. At the behest of owner Mike Martens, it’s been painted in a variation of the classic Yamaha Speed Block
graphics — via Bike EXIF
Mell Lawrence Architects designed the Watersmark 35 house in Austin, Texas — via CONTEMPORIST
The British firm Racefit creates beautiful titanium and carbon end cans, and full titanium exhaust systems for discerning sportsbike riders who still believe loud pipes save lives.
The company is based in Derbyshire—home to some of the best and most heavily policed riding country England has to offer. Co-owners Jon Keeling and Phil Atkinson have been immersed in high performance bike culture for years and this Spondon-framed Kawasaki is the latest in a long line of high-performance, four-cylinder specials — via Bike EXIF
The HemLoft is a beautiful egg-shaped treehouse built on Whistler Mountain. It’s magnificent, but because it was built in secret on government land, the fate of the wonderful orb is uncertain — via Gizmodo
Today, Cafe Racer TV releases its entire Season 2 on DVD, which is a good excuse to look back at the featured bikes. With the benefit of hindsight, one of my favourites is a low-key build: a Triumph Thruxton from British Customs. It’s a real world
build that’s within the reach of a competent amateur with a mid-range budget — via Bike EXIF
The project [ES-arch] plans the reconstruction of an existing building, respecting the same profile. The old building was distributed on two levels with different function, stable at ground floor and barn at first floor. On the outside the existing building is characterised by two overlapping doors on east elevation, a great entrance on south elevation, a little independent volume still on south — via ArchDaily
Bonhams’ high-profile auctions usually throw up some surprises. But few are as big as this one. Most vintage motorcycles worth more than $100,000 are pretty well known, but have you ever heard of the German brand Windhoff? Me neither. Yet this restored 1928 example, fresh from a private museum, is expected to sell for between $145,000 and $190,000 — via Bike EXIF
A interesting place, although it’s slightly annoying that there are aren’t more interior shots of Millway Tower, which you’ll find in Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.
There aren’t a lot of details to work with either, when it comes to this 14th century sawmill conversion, but enough to give you an idea. The structure actually dates back to 1307, when it was owned by the Monks of Maugersbury
, but has more recently been converted and extended into something both unique and habitable for a family.
Like I said, a shame there isn’t more to see inside, but there’s enough to whet the appetite. No price, that’s on application — which perhaps indicates that this countryside retreat isn’t on the cheap side — via WowHaus
As wind and water weather the surface of a site, rocky outcrops are often left behind, pushing upward to form rigid peaks. Instead of blasting away this natural feature, one home embraces the existing stone in stunning ways.
Designed by Gibson Architects at an altitude of 8500 feet in the Rocky Mountains, this house turns difficult granite boulders into building assets, showing off this inherent geology in organic ways. Marble-clad elements like pillars and fireplaces rise up from the rugged ground, tying it vertically into the structure’s aesthetic, while horizontal white and wood elements provide contrast to these dark natural features — via Dornob
Battersby Howat Architects have designed a house in Whistler, BC, Canada — via CONTEMPORIST
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