Design

With the BRIO54 H4 product line we set out to design a modern green home type that is well-suited to typical small and narrow shoreline lots and offers a clean functional layout, bright open spaces while adhering to a very tight budget — via ArchDaily

Tea time, tea time!. This smug little Octopus is a true tentacular tea connoisseur. How do you like your tea?. One sugar — or maybe eight?!

This 8×10 inch print is a reproduction of my original gouache and watercolour painting. It is professionally printed on Kodak Endura Metallic paper, a unique dimensional surface that results in sharp details and beautifully saturated colours — via Etsy

Italy seems to be full of workshops making stylish, rideable customs, but Ggarage is one I haven’t heard of before. The company specializes in bikes from the 1970s onwards, and operates just outside Rome. This is their latest build, a simple but very effective flat track conversion on the evergreen Triumph Bonneville — via Bike EXIF

The expansion [Posto 9] of a space dedicated to the Veterinary course will also work as an external clinic providing animal care to the outside — via ArchDaily

— via Jake’s Rolex World

FengShui is an old Chinese topography, which believes that man, building, and nature should live harmoniously in a positive synergy.

Based by that belief, the owner of this house believes that applying FengShui into his house will increase the living quality for the whole household, since the applications can be seen real in daily life routines [Edha Architects] — via ArchDaily

The 350 Scrambler was an air-cooled, four-stroke single that appeared in 1968—as far as I can figure out. (It’s a descendant of the 250 Scrambler produced at the behest of the US Ducati importer in 1961.) This particular machine lives near Toulouse in France; it belongs to the wife of Vincent Prat, of the accomplished French motorcycle photography duo Guerry & Prat. For 15 years, the bike was stored under a pile of blankets in a garage, until Vincent had a change of heart — via Bike EXIF

After a devastating fire in 1981 that crippled the Vitra design campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Vitra began an extensive mission to rebuild the campus as well as redesign the masterplan, which was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw. Almost a decade after the devastating fire in 1981, the company sought an architect to build a fire station for the Vitra campus to thwart any future reoccurrences and commissioned Zaha Hadid. Completed in 1993, the Vitra fire station would be Hadid’s first realized project of her career, which would eventually launch her name and style to an international audience — via ArchDaily

Available in black or silver dial, the Arceau Grande Lune watch is a complete calendar watch featuring day and month apertures. The dial stamped with a herringbone motif identical to that found on saddle rugs.

43mm steel case, automatic mechanical movement with Dubois-Dépraz 9313 moon phase module, comes on a matt black alligator strap — via Perpetuelle.com Blog

More than anything else, the Razel Residence is the house of its residents; The colorful house with the spectacular appearance reflects its owners character in the most precise way – open and vivid, modest and true to its way, inspired by art and music.

The house was built on a tight budget, allowing limited use of design materials. As architects [SaaB Architects], we understood that the design concept must be implemented through the basic building elements — via ArchDaily

Located on the top of a rise, the house forms part of a private development [Agustín Landa Ruiloba] in the south of Monterrey. The fan-shaped lot is flat at the narrow top part, sloping down as it opens up to the south views of the Sierra Madre and the rest of the development.

Access is by way of ramps which move through the house, allowing the visitor to discover it before, during, and after crossing the threshold. The walking entrance leads to a triple-height patio delimited by the house proper and a sectioning of the lot marked by a reflecting pool which contrasts with the hardness of the space — via ArchDaily

The Weekend House on Lake Superior consists of two black volumes that extend toward the distant horizon. Arranged on a platform that rests just above the ground, the home is reduced to a few essential elements, a main house and a small studio. Designed by Julie Snow Architects it is a wood post and beam structure with a super-insulated floor, roof and walls — via ArchDaily

Surrounded by eight-floor buildings and taking up an obsolete esplanade which previously was a basketball court, Macarena Social – CyberCentre [Mediomundo] rests in this place generating a small access garden, which together with a porch vinculated to a cafeteria and a multipurpose room, are offered as a wi-fi neighbours’ meeting and leisure room — via ArchDaily

I’m pleased to see that the latest bike from Spanish builder Café Racer Dreams is a stripped-down 1983 Yamaha SR250. Mechanically, it’s as simple as they come: a bulletproof, aircooled 239cc single, uprated with a Mikuni carb and a custom reverse-cone exhaust system built in-house — via Bike EXIF

We’ve seen so many incredible displays of design and architecture from A-cero that now our expectations are getting  higher and higher when it comes to a company with such an amazing portfolio.  The Concrete House II is a family project located in Madrid and stretches over a surface of no less than 1.600 square meters — via Architecture Blog

When Sandnes and Stavanger were chosen as cultural capitals of Europe 2008, the Norwegian Wood competitions were launched to promote innovative, timber architecture contributing to make the region an international showcase for it.

Sandnes asked for the design [AWP / Atelier Oslo] a new square and a sculptural object in wood in pedestrian district Langgata aiming at revitalizing the area, and creating a place where many different activities could take place: a meeting point, markets, informal music concerts and other happenings — via ArchDaily

It looks like with the new Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astroregulateur limited edition watch, the Swiss watchmaker has found yet another, maybe even more effective, way of combating the problem of gravity affecting accuracy of mechanical watches. The solution is as simple as it is ingenious — via World Watch Review

Hofman Dujardin Architects have designed the Villa Geldrop in The Netherlands.

The villa is located at the end of the site next to the existing barn. Through a long cut in the landscape the house is anchored on large surrounding. Under the ground level the bedrooms are located at this long sectional patio. The large living with dining area, kitchen, study area and playing area are located at the ground level and the 1st floor. Through voids, roof lights and high passages a tremendous spaciousness is created. The spaces which are located in the axe of the landscape are used for the sublime experience of the landscape — via CONTEMPORIST