Design

On this very little plot it was impossible to challenge the two high level neighbours which have respectively 6 en 9 floors because a nursery can hardly have more than 2 floors. And feeting to the neigbours would have underlined the disproportion of the statures — via ArchDaily

Continuing demand for spaces for student, gesta this project E-PRO, brother with a same scheme but resolved formally distinct. As a starting point, sought maximize space where located garage, House [Volta Arquitectos] that supports the building program to release a large clear. The irregularity of the Windows on the Green volume, like a console audio channels — via ArchDaily

Architects Atelier Ryo Abe Works shared with us this project that consists on a house for a young couple with two small children. According to the architects, the clients requested a lot of shelf space to display their many collectables — via ArchDaily

Here are some nice looking and very inexpensive Italian watches from Fullspot. Certainly designer, certainly fashion-ey, certainly the opposite of most of what you have in your collection. But actually quite fun — via A Blog to Read

The project brief that inspired this work of architecture was for an artist’s field-station in Glen Nevis, Scotland, that would allow and encourage creative interaction between artists and the land and its history. The chosen site was anywhere in Glen Nevis and Malcolm Frasier Architects chose a section of land in the dense woods that overlooks the natural expanse of Glen offering a view of the landscape with the interspersion of human interaction by means of roads winding up the hills and car parks and visitor’s centers — via ArchDaily

The house [Vladimír Balda] is constructed at the periphery of a suburban village. The housing development turns gradually into an open woody landscape here. The sloping shape of the plot and its unfavourable orientation to the north were decisive factors for the house shape and its internal arrangement — via ArchDaily

Located in downtown Phoenix, the new six-story, 225,000 sqf, 110-foot tall, LEED Silver building [Ehrlich Architects] has become an integral part of the fabric of ASU’s energizing downtown campus and a harbinger of Phoenix’s redevelopment. Delivered in a design-build, fast-track method, work began on design in October 2006 and the school opened its doors in August 2008, 22 months later. School schedules and budgets were both met — via ArchDaily

Alberto Campo Baeza Architects designed the Olnick Spanu House in Garrison, New York.

The place is of profound tranquility where after a day of rain and fog an intense light reflects in the stilled mirror of the majestic Hudson River´s deep waters. A place where twilights are a thousand colors as the water breaks into a thousand reflections. A place where the air is clean and calm, and mild. One could say a place that is very close to heaven. In this impressive place, we establish a plane, a platform that underlines the landscape before us, seeking to enhance it — via CONTEMPORIST

Retro is currently all the rage among watchmakers, and everyone is busy revisiting their back catalogues in the hope of finding models in need of a lucrative revamp. In fact there are more revamped watches out there than there are revisited Hollywood TV show being adapted to the big screen. Speaking of screens, the Glasshutte Original Seventies Panorama Date manages to look very much like the screen of a retro television, and you should have no problem reading the date — via Watchuseek

Before the Robie House, Fallingwater, and the Guggenheim, Frank Lloyd Wright’s career was just beginning to take off in Oak Park, Illinois. One of the most significant projects from his early career is Unity Temple near his home and studio in Oak Park. Completed in 1908, Unity Temple was a replacement church for Unitarian Universalist Church that had burned down in 1905. The church is poised as an important work for the Modernist movement in the early 20th Century, but it was also the foundation from which the Prairie School would originate into Wright’s architectural language — via ArchDaily

The convent of Poor Clares [a3gm] have a labyrinthine organization with multiple levels joined by stairs which hinder the development of the older sisters. The cells that serve as accommodations were not fit for habitation: lack of insulation, aged materials, humidity — via ArchDaily

Watchuseek loves dive watches and we had the opportunity to try and test the Vittorium Deepdiver watch. A 47mm sea monster that can be taken to depths of 200 meters without malfunctioning — via Watchuseek

AC Martin’s design for the Hollenbeck Replacement Police Station nicely complements the diverse and creative Boyle Heights community it serves, encourages public interaction, and creates a beneficial work environment for the officers. The welcoming, artistic, and safe new police station reinforces the Department’s efforts to create a more open, community-serving police force for the city — via ArchDaily

Architect Martin Fenlon has sent us photos of the Bojanic House he designed in Los Angeles.

What started out as a relatively minor remodel of a modest bungalow evolved over the course of construction into a new 2,500 s.f. house, with the existing foundation and footprint as the only original elements. The Bojanics acted as owner-builders, keeping construction costs to a bare minimum. The end result was a uniquely collaborative effort; one where the design was worked out on a day-to-day basis during construction in a manner that bordered on improvisation — via CONTEMPORIST

I first saw this lovely Indian several months ago, but was unable to track down any images. Then yesterday the owner of Saltcracker contacted me out of the blue: it’s Lars Nielsen. Lars’ Indian is a 1939 model with a 741 engine, bored out from 500 to 600cc. He built this bike to run at Bonneville, in the 600cc Special Construction Vintage Supercharged Fuel class — via Bike EXIF

The Schertz Public Library [Kell Muñoz Architects] is a new 30,000 s.f. facility that serves the largest suburban city in the San Antonio metropolitan area. The client desired a building that would reflect the spirit and character of this traditionally rooted but forward looking community — via ArchDaily