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I [HHF Architects] thought mainly how to connect with time axis of surrounding history of the site that a military commander made a fort during the Age of Civil Wars (15-16th century) . The site of north/west is road and south/east is the neighboring house, so the major theme is the way of taking a sunlight. I designed 3-floor void as light-tube by analogy of fort like Scotish Tower-House. The room on each floor are arranged around light-tube like a square in the house and the inner-opening facing the void make a role as linking by one’s eyes between the room — via ArchDaily

The most extraordinary thing about this build isn’t the bike itself—a humble Honda CB160—but the story behind it. Because the ‘Rusty Rocket’ was constructed almost entirely out of spare parts, collected over a year. Owner Scott Elder visited local vintage racers in Portland, Oregon, and dug through their cast away piles in the corners, sheds, and backyards, finding a fender here, and a headlight there. There are a few exceptions such as the pipe, intake manifolds, and leatherwork, but almost everything else was borrowed or stolen—or ceremoniously traded for beer. A daily cafe racer built, literally, on a coffee-cup budget — via Bike EXIF

Architect Kisho Kurokawa was very innovative in his creation of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in 1972, which was the first capsule architecture design. The module was created with the intention of housing traveling businessmen that worked in central Tokyo during the week. It is a prototype for architecture of sustainability and recycleability, as each module can be plugged in to the central core and replaced or exchanged when necessary — via ArchDaily

This house is conceived by Tribe Studio Architects as a series of boxes suspended in a large shed-like space. The private spaces of the house, the bedrooms and bathrooms, hover over the public spaces. Each bedroom is expressed as a box, pulled apart from its fellows creating a series of double height voids. The edges of the private spaces describe the public volumes — via ArchDaily

The design is very unique, and even though the Louis Vuitton fashion influence is strong, their watches are more than just a fancy case around a cheap movement (a la Gucci watches, for example). The Tambour’s modicum of eccentricity is what I like most. This particular model is a straight-3 chrono with tachymeter and date function. Price – about $6,000, it will be available June 2011 — via Perpetuelle.com Blog

MCK Architects (Marsh Cashman Koolloos) have designed the DPR House in Sydney, Australia — via CONTEMPORIST