Design

The Round Tower is a Grade II Listed folly, which had been reduced to ruin by years of neglect and fire. Located on the crest of a hill overlooking Siddington Village, the exposed site is visually integral to the setting of this listed structure. As such the design approach maintains the open relationship with the surrounding agricultural landscape by developing a discreet and substantial underground extension to the tower. This underground extension [De Matos Ryan] provides the main open plan living spaces and is lit by both a central open sunken courtyard and a lateral landscape scoop concealing the new swimming pool and associated sun terraces from public view — via ArchDaily

Nicola Martini describes his workshop as a laboratory of ideas. And right now, the Verona-based builder is pushing the visual envelope harder than almost anyone else on the custom scene. This is his latest bike, Flash Back — a fearless reworking of the Ducati 1098R — via Bike EXIF

This is a period property, although this 1930s Adams Hill art deco house in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire does actually show evidence of numerous other periods within.

Outside are gardens, remote controlled wrought iron gates, a long driveway and a double garage. All of which is on the market for £1,375,000 — via WowHaus

This amazing house was build in 2006 by Arquitectura Orgánica. A young couple with two children from Mexico City who after living in a conventional home wanted to change to one integrated to nature. The goal of this project was to make it feel like an internal inhabitant of a snail, like a mollusc moving from one chamber to another, like a symbiotic dweller of a huge fossil maternal cloister — via Beautiful Life

This Seiko SNK809 features an automatic movement. Of course, you then have the Hardlex crystal that so many Seiko’s feature, and has water resistance to 100 metres — via Wrist Watch Review

By most accounts, owning a vintage Norton Commando can be a quixotic experience. For many, it’s the romantic ideal of a classic motorcycle — but you’re likely to need good spanner skills to keep the bike going. The alternative is to locate a Commando that has been subtly upgraded as well as restored, by someone such as Matt Rambow of Colorado Norton Works. Almost 100 bikes have rolled out of his workshop to date, and his mission is to re-build the finest Norton Commando motorcycles on the planet, to match the taste and riding styles of our individual customers — via Bike EXIF

Braun has been making watches since the early ’70s, with the range still very much inspired by the Dieter Rams less is more philosophy. Not only that, designs like the Braun BN0032 watch range are reasonably priced too — via Retro To Go

The French MotoGP rider Randy de Puniet has been spending a fair bit of time in Australia lately. So when he needed a bike to get around Sydney, he gave Deus a call. Randy’s design brief was for a middleweight, 2-up twin,/q> says Deus creative director Carby Tuckwell. Easy enough to kick around the city, and with enough legs for out of town. Deus’ head wrench Jeremy Tagand is also French, so this custom Kawasaki W650 has been dubbed The French Connection — via Bike EXIF

Home built on former missile base (19.20 acres) offering underground living and access to missile silo — $750,000 — via Sotheby’s International Realty

The CB450 was built by Jared Johnson of Holiday Customs, a one-man builder in Portland, Oregon, who shares a shop space with two other builders — via Bike EXIF

The new Panerai Radiomir 10 Days GMT watch aka PAM 391 is a boutique-only offering. While somewhat similar to the PAM 323, this watch has a brown sandwich dial, am/pm indicator and linear power reserve meter — via Perpetuelle.com Watch Blog

Endo Shuhei has designed a new building at the Port of Fukura in Japan — via CONTEMPORIST

This Yamaha XS500 custom was built by Philadelphia-based Ted Cichocki. Ted discovered a crippled Yamaha XS500 only a few miles from his house, and bought it for $200. The bike’s performance has been upgraded with a steering damper, pod filters and a re-jet, but it’s impossible to list everything else that’s been done: it’s loaded with custom parts from fork ears to clubman bars to a Rocket Four seat from Carpy — via Bike EXIF