Here’s an interesting old ‘un coming up for auction in a few days in England. It’s not an original DKW, but a replica of the pre-1930 racers, assembled from period parts and rebuilt four years ago. It might be a mongrel, but its pedigree is pretty good: DKW were the early masters of two-stroke technology — via Bike EXIF
The 860 series is one of the most maligned of all Ducatis. Styled by auto designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, it was ahead of its time and sales were poor. But it’s also one of those bikes that has aged gracefully, and 35 years later, this lightly tweaked custom is an absolute traffic-stopper — via Bike EXIF
Mich L in LA’s blog is always filled with interesting ways to turn dollar store items into jewellery components. In this tutorial, she cuts silicone pencil grips into sections and uses them to make lots of cute earrings, bracelets and pendants — via CRAFT
Luke Skywalker, eat your heart out — Australian Chris Malloy and his partners claim to have invented an actual, working hoverbike that zips along above the terrain like a Star Wars landspeeder cruising over the deserts of Tatooine.
Our goal is to produce an extremely reliable helicopter, designed with rugged simplicity at its heart and true pilot safety built into the design and operation of the aircraft,
Malloy’s hoverbike website states — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A large town centre property with character? That’s certainly the case with the Salem Chapel in Pwllheli, North Wales.
It’s huge -– and not far from the coast either, sat right in the shopping heart of this tourist town on the Llyn Peninsula. It’s also grade II-listed, which might well impact on what you can actually do with it — via WowHaus
LOVE Architecture designed the Villa 3S in Graz, Austria — via CONTEMPORIST
Designed [Marmol Radziner Prefab] for an active couple as a vacation home, Hidden Valley celebrates nature in its careful siting, emphasis on indoor/outdoor living, and integration of sustainable design elements. The prefab house sits on an open, hundred-acre site punctuated by red rock formations and cliffs in the arid desert of Moab, Utah. The two-bedroom, two-bath structure is comprised of five interior modules and seven deck modules — via ArchDaily
The architecture of Loloma 5 [will bruder+PARTNERS] is a thoughtful and sophisticated acknowledgement of the traditional and modern roots of its Old Town Scottsdale context—a place with pride in its false-front, covered boardwalk, and “old west” friendly downtown image. The project creates a live/work environment in the heart of Scottsdale that celebrates both the historic and physical context of the place — via ArchDaily
With only a 5,000 sqf footprint, this modest connective building [Ann Beha Architects] has helped make adjacent spaces more useful to the school program. The selected site, a former maintenance and dumpster area, now strengthens a campus edge, and creates a connection to the enlarged campus courtyard. The new building links two historic buildings, the Alumni House and Student Union, and provides easy passage along a new campus spine — via ArchDaily
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower [Tange Associates] is located in Tokyo’s distinctive Nishi-Shinjuku high-rise district and contains three different schools: Tokyo Mode Gakuen (fashion), HAL Tokyo (IT and digital contents) and Shuto Iko (medical treatments and care). The building’s innovative shape and cutting edge façade embodies our unique “Cocoon” concept. Embraced within this incubating form, students are inspired to create, grow and transform — via ArchDaily
Set outside of Moscow, up on a semi-forested hill of thin pines, this home [Atrium] is at once an abstract sculptural work and dynamically planned residence. Views on three sides are engaged in creative ways, while the one direction without a view facilitates the wrapping of the facade from one level to the next — via Dornob
This apartment [Éva Katona, Péter Szigeti] is siutated in a listed building just below the UNESCO protected area of Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. The client is a young creative family with two children, who planned the refurbishment of the apartment, the stair was designed by Croatian designer Biljana Jovanovic — via ArchDaily
NEXTHouse [David Vandervort Architects] is a 2,700 square foot, custom-designed home fusing the northwest modern tradition with the highest quality environmentally sustainable building techniques, features, and finishes. It is a speculative venture on the part of the architect, created to demonstrate cutting edge green
features and modern design in a for sale
residence — via ArchDaily
Radical Ducati is in the business of making good sportbikes great. The Spanish company produces top-drawer accessories and go-faster kits for most of the Ducati range, and the RAD 02 Corsa Evo is its latest release. The 02 moniker means that it’s configured as a race or trackday bike. You can buy the bike complete, or as a kit — via Bike EXIF
IKONIKO designed this house on Kilrenney Avenue in Los Angeles, California — via CONTEMPORIST
On the tiny island of Coll with just two hundred residents off the coast of Scotland sits a modest masterwork of modern renovation – a brand new home slotted delicately inside the (reinforced) crumbling stone ruins of an ancient local manor.
For all the polish of the finished product, construction was anything but easy. Between the fragile frame of the building and the fierce ocean winds, simply stabilizing the existing building remnants took WT Architecture months of careful planning and execution — via Dornob
Marquetry is the art of applying carefully cut and often tiny pieces of wood veneer (and other materials) to an underlying structure to form a decorative image or pattern. At the highest levels, the craft requires an artist’s eye, deep knowledge of the selected woods, and a steady hand to execute the fine cuts. The Rotonde de Cartier with bear motif combines marquetry and watchmaking to produce a limited series of uniquely artistic timepieces — via WatchTime.com
Almost eight months ago we had decided to build a new home. I really wanted a set of Eames shell chairs and a Eero Saarinen dining table, with that idea the hunt began. When I got thinking about the total price I cringed a little so I resorted to a Burke table. My area does not really offer the opportunity to grab these very cheap. eBay and Etsy were the places I found my shells. Some were in great shape and as you can see the two blue ones were pretty bad. With out reinventing the wheel I read up on the restoration processes via Chairfag. I pretty much followed most of the steps but added a few of my own — via PLASTOLUX
Altius Architecture designed the Cliff House in Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada — via CONTEMPORIST
From the Smithsonian‘s collection of remarkable artefacts, a wedding dress made from a B-29 pilot’s life-saving parachute:
In August 1944, Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, and his crew were returning from a bombing raid over Yowata, Japan, when their engine caught fire. The crew was forced to bail out. Suffering from only minor injuries, Hensinger used the parachute as a pillow and blanket as he waited to be rescued. He kept the parachute that had saved his life. He later proposed to his girlfriend Ruth in 1947, offering her the material for a gown.
Ruth wanted to create a dress similar to one in the movie Gone with the Wind. She hired a local seamstress, Hilda Buck, to make the bodice and veil. Ruth made the skirt herself; she pulled up the strings on the parachute so that the dress would be shorter in the front and have a train in the back. The couple married July 19, 1947. The dress was also worn by the their daughter and by their son’s bride before being gifted to the Smithsonian.
— via Boing Boing
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