Design

The old local market of Ferreries, after falling into disuse for several years, has been restored and extended to become the new Cultural Center of this neighborhood.

The main old nave of Ferreries market it’s preserved and through its extension [ARQUITECTURIA] a new transition space is generated in order to enable the connection between the existing building and Joan Monclús square; furthermore, the elevation that defines this public space is completed | The old nave gets involved to the public space intertwining its interior to the exterior through a new access — via ArchDaily

Brent Knoll is a new house by March Studio located on the outskirts of Malmsbury. Despite a brief to extend an existing 1850?s homestead, it became apparent that the new extension be detached. Rather than a reinterpretation of a past architecture, the resultant became a celebration of both old and new — via ArchDaily

The Giant Campus project designed by Morphosis Architects is a compact village that accommodates diverse functions in a flexible framework of forms that move in and out of a folded landscape plane. Situated amid existing canals and a new man made lake, the undulating office building interacts with an augmented ground plane, joining architecture to landscape and environment to site. The East Campus office building contains three zones: open, non-hierarchical office space; private offices, and executive suites, which cantilever dramatically over the lake — via ArchDaily

Designed and built by Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira, the Fez House is located in Porto, Portugal. This home and studio space, the work of my life according to Siza, took 12 years to complete, assembling the site, designing the house, and then building it. The home’s size is almost statuesque with its lines and angles — via ArchDaily

Grimshaw, in association with Atkins, are redesigning Newport Station as part of a citywide regeneration masterplan by Newport Unlimited. As Newport is the first city reached by passengers between England and Cardiff, the station is a highly visible structure. Network Rail were keen that the new station should provide a striking civic building that would provide a gateway opportunity not only to Newport, but to Wales herself — via ArchDaily

Jesse Bassett is the owner of The GasBox, a vintage motorcycle shop in Lakewood, Ohio. It’s a new name to me, but I have a feeling we’ll be hearing more about Jesse’s company in the future: his BSA just won the Freestyle Class at the ‘Ultimate Builder’ AMD Championship affiliate event in Cleveland, and has gained a lot of interest over the past couple of weeks. The bike took two years to build and is a 1965 model—from the early days of Lightning production—although you’d be hard pressed to tell — via Bike EXIF

The project has been developed specially for popular TV show Dachniy Otvet. The idea of the show is that for those owners of country houses and cottages, who agreed to participate in the experiment, the invited designers or architects do re-planning of a part of their cottage. The important moment is that the house owners pay nothing for reconstruction, but at the same time they can’t influence the result, so it comes always unexpected for them. The architects in their turn try to offer the most original solutions — via ArchDaily

This impressive timepiece commemorates what will be the first Grand Prix held in India (October 2011) and is the fourth in a string of impressive and highly sought after watches that began with Hublot’s 13 March 2010 announcement that it had become the Official Watchmaker of Formula 1. If you are not up to speed on all the Hublot F1 action, be sure to check out the Hublot China F1 here, the Hublot Monza F1 Red Sapphire here, and the Hublot Korea F1 King Power Red Gold — via Perpetuelle.com Blog

Bohouse is a scheme of 20no designed by xsite architecture. Live/Work apartments for rent just north of Middlesbrough Railway Station. This area is adjacent to the Middlehaven area masterplanned by Alsop some years ago and has emerged as a successful regeneration project known as Bohozone that includes a digital business acceleration centre, Boho One, Platform Arts, artists’ studios and workshops; and has further buildings planned generating new businesses and employment in the digital media and technology sector — via ArchDaily

This version of the Frederique Constant (FC) Healey is the Chronograph (Chrono), and comes with its chocolate brown dial. It has a rose-gold plated case that is 43mm wide and a nice elegant looking case. According the FC the case is hand-polished. It has a sapphire crystal that looks to have bottom coated AR, and a rich, easy to read dial. At 43mm wide, the case doesn’t actually sit very large – though it does have long and nicely curved lugs so that it wears comfortably, but doesn’t look like a small watch — via A Blog to Read

The main target group for this housing development designed by Caramel Architekten with green surroundings at the periphery of the city comprises young families and the like. More than half of the apartments have their own gardens; the rest have terraces or loggias — via ArchDaily

As of January 2011, this is believed to be the highest scoring LEED Platinum home in the state of Florida with 112 points. Located at 4512 Grove Park in Tallahassee, the craftsman bungalow style home is owned by Mark and Linda Powell and features two-level living, SIPs construction, a large solar PV array, and EPA Indoor airPLUS certification — via Jetson Green

Movement wise the Marine Royale Alarm has an automatic Breguet Caliber 519R. Nice 18k white gold rotor that I discussed above, and a 45 hour power reserve. In addition to the time and alarm, it has a date complication as well. The finishing and decoration on the movement is nicely done – though that is to be expect from Breguet — via A Blog to Read

The facilities of the Bled School of Management have been expanded with a third building, constructed on the site of a smaller building, a manor from the 1920s.

The new building, called Vila Mon Repos designed by Ravnikar Potokar Arhitekturni, transposes the orientation and the cube-like shape of the old manor with the addition of some displaced elements, such as the stairway and the entrance hall or vestibule on the north side, and the glass part of the gathering space or social area on the ground floor on the south-east side towards the terrace, also featuring the green roof of the lower ground floor — via ArchDaily

This building evolved from significant public conversations with students, parents, teachers and community activists, working with historians, curators, folklorists, artists and architects to envision a community gathering place [Kell Muñoz Architects] — via ArchDaily

The small Swiss watchmaker that is mostly known for its skeletonized timepieces will soon introduce its new creation: the Claude Meylan Eclipse wrist watch.

As the name implies, the Claude Meylan Eclipse is presented in a glossy jet-black PVD treated stainless steel case — via World Watch Review

This house, project by Progetto Arquitetura, is situated in a rich neighbourhood in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Its construction has been finished in 2010 — via ArchDaily

I’ve been following Alpina for years now and I’ve always been fascinated if not a little off-put by their styling. Finally, howeover, we have a chrono that’s actually worth a second look. This is the Startimer Pilot running an in-house automatic movement, the AL-860. It will be on sale this year alongside the AL-950, the Startimer Pilot Regulator that they’re most famous for — via Wrist Watch Review

The relation with the verticality of the mountain at the back of the house and with the sea horizon in the far distance represents the generating element of the development of the volumes. Their simple shapes and the compact horizontal fronts express, by refusing the doubled elevation, an architecture [SM-arch] which proposes an actual integration between what is built and the ground and takes roots thus recalling the idea of chunks of rock broken off the flank of the mountain — via ArchDaily

This watch, designed by Christian Mikkelsen and Lau Liengaard Ruge, is an ultrathin, fairly handsome sports watch with a thin quartz movement and PVD-coated case and band. I, personally, am not a fan but it does look better than the thin stuff Skagen has been selling for years now and it could make someone with a fetish for ultrathin watches quite happy — via Wrist Watch Review