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13/01/2025

Monday meditations 💭 • 📸:

“The cars don’t wait for you, the clock is ticking! This requires some serious organization to cover as many specials as...
12/01/2025

“The cars don’t wait for you, the clock is ticking! This requires some serious organization to cover as many specials as possible during the day, especially here in Corsica where the access is very difficult.”

Photographer embedded himself into the French racing outfit , with the final few days ahead of him. Thankfully after an uncharacteristically soaking start to this Mediterranean rally, the clouds started to part as the finish line was in sight.

Day 3: “There were a lot of accidents during the day in the changing weather, which really affected the timing between specials and made travelling even more challenging. A complicated day, but the team’s spirits were great. They’re running at 200%.”

Day 4: “This route between Calvi and Propriano was by far my favorite stage. Breathtaking scenery, the sun was out, the mood was perfect - the team’s results are strong, but there’s still a big day ahead of us with four specials on the schedule today, certainly the most beautiful specials of the rally. The drivers are ready to fight all day long on the way to the finish.”

Day 5: “A very complicated day, four stages and a lot of kilometers to cover today on the way to Porto Vecchio for the finish and the podium. An unforgettable week with a great and professional group, and the results were impressive!”

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A few captures from recent days in Milano are a great reminder that no matter the time of year, it’s a perfect time to g...
12/01/2025

A few captures from recent days in Milano are a great reminder that no matter the time of year, it’s a perfect time to get out and drive 🇮🇹 • 📸: &

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be part of a rally team? Mathis () recently spent a week embedded with French r...
11/01/2025

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be part of a rally team? Mathis () recently spent a week embedded with French racing outfit on the Tour de Corse, an iconic rally across the island of Corsica. A team of 35, set across 11 cars and 22 drivers, it’s not just about racing, but keeping organised and remaining focused through the travel, weather, and unexpected moments that happen on these challenging endurance drives. For this story we’re breaking from our usual format, pulling together notes from Mathis as the week progressed to help capture the feeling of being on the ground in Corsica;

“It’s a long week ahead,” Mathis explains of the first two days of preparation before the green flag, “with the rain coming our way, and we need to determining whether cars meet rally standards with the scrutineers. Then there’s adjusting the setup to the weather. The start of the 24th Tour de Corse is just around the corner and the atmosphere in the team is perfect though - everyone’s ready for battle!”

Day 1: “Conditions were quite tough on this first day of racing, with lots of rain and rather cold temperatures. Despite the conditions, Alain Oreille finished in the top 3 after a complicated day for the whole team.”

Day 2: “Thankfully the weather is improving - the road is drier, and today the drivers embark on the longest special stage of the rally, at over 40km from Porto Vecchio to Lucciana. The mechanics worked tirelessly to ensure that the driver’s cars were perfect after the first stage yesterday. A long day ahead with many kilometers to cover to finish at Bastia airport.”

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The tranquility we all need right now: this is The Woodnest, a tiny cabin in the mountains by architect Dag Strasse, ing...
11/01/2025

The tranquility we all need right now: this is The Woodnest, a tiny cabin in the mountains by architect Dag Strasse, ingeniously wrapped around a living pine tree overlooking the town of Odda, Norway 🏔 • 📸: via

Winter warrior ❄️ • 📸: .b.cPorsche 911 (992) Dakar WTLP; Fuel consumption combined: 11,3 l/100 km; Emissions combined: 2...
10/01/2025

Winter warrior ❄️ • 📸: .b.c

Porsche 911 (992) Dakar WTLP; Fuel consumption combined: 11,3 l/100 km; Emissions combined: 256 g/km

Dreaming of the empty roads and moody landscapes of the Faroe Islands 💭🇫🇴 • 📸:
09/01/2025

Dreaming of the empty roads and moody landscapes of the Faroe Islands 💭🇫🇴 • 📸:

A small dose of the surreal today with London-based artist Livia Marin, who has dedicated her craft to creating unique p...
09/01/2025

A small dose of the surreal today with London-based artist Livia Marin, who has dedicated her craft to creating unique porcelain cups that appear to have melted, while still retaining their intricate patterns and decorations 🫖 • 📸: Livia Marin

In the heart of Yucatán, ’s organic-feeling Trillium Awakening reimagines sustainable living, unfolding like a series of...
08/01/2025

In the heart of Yucatán, ’s organic-feeling Trillium Awakening reimagines sustainable living, unfolding like a series of floating petals above a reflective pool. Each of the three primary volumes converge around a central core wrapped in a luminous bamboo dome, while suspended concrete stepping stones create contemplative pathways across mirror-like water surfaces. Local materials - regional plaster, stone, and bamboo columns - ground the design in the context of the area while creating a striking vision in the dense forest. Conventional climate control is ditched, in favor of a system that cleverly circulates the air for natural ventilation channels, helping to dissolve the boundary between the environment and the luxurious space within 🌴 • 📸: .baravalle

“I did want one old and one new, but honestly if I could have it all I’d want every generation of 911.”’s duo of Porsche...
07/01/2025

“I did want one old and one new, but honestly if I could have it all I’d want every generation of 911.”

’s duo of Porsches suit one another so well, it’s hard to believe they weren’t bought as a set. One is a 2018 991 C4S with a 7 speed manual, the other is a 1973 911T, both incredibly well matched in specification despite the 45 years that separate them. Traditionally speaking, a collection like this comes together when an owner plans on using one every day and the other for “special occasions”. That’s true enough in Zhang’s case, but it might surprise you to find out which of the two he uses more.

“The Porsche that came first was actually the 991. Most of it is factory stock and I like the fact that it’s a manual in a sea of PDKs. I take it to the track sometimes, but not as frequently as before. It’s quite a commitment, since I started running my own design consultancy I haven’t scheduled the time to do that as much. The ’73 911 is more often the daily driver. It actually came about after a failed search for my dream car, a G-body 911. I was offering a seller of a silver 911SC way more than it was worth, but he still insisted on a higher price. I kept searching and by luck found the 911T.

It’s hard for me to pick between the two, each offers a different experience and both are icons in the 911 lineup. If they aren’t listening, I’d say the ’73 car is my favourite, just the unfiltered sound of a classic flat-6 is enough to put a smile on my face every single day. The car came to me as a carbureted 2.4 litre, but originally it had a 73.5 CIS (fuel injected) engine. My driving mentor Ian Carpenter, who builds these engines for a living, is teaching me how to adjust the car so it’s pushing out more power and balanced fuel and air mixtures in the carbs. I hope to learn to rebuild it someday so I can drive it until the end of time.”

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Audiophile equipment for the post-apocalypse: You’re looking at designer Ron Arad’s iconic concrete stereo system, origi...
07/01/2025

Audiophile equipment for the post-apocalypse: You’re looking at designer Ron Arad’s iconic concrete stereo system, originally created in 1983 as an exploration of Britain’s postmodern brutalist architecture and burgeoning music subcultures. Ten editions were created, with five now living in museum collections thanks to their incredible aesthetic value 📀 • 📸: Christies

“I really resonate with the 911’s Teutonic heritage. I have a specific colour choice that my mechanic makes fun of me fo...
06/01/2025

“I really resonate with the 911’s Teutonic heritage. I have a specific colour choice that my mechanic makes fun of me for, which is silver. I know it’s the German racing colour, but it’s also the colour of my favourite German products like Rimowa cases and Leica cameras, which have that simple silver look.”

There are two sides to , the one expressed in his work and the one expressed in his garage. A concept artist living in Los Angeles, Pally’s bread and butter is illustration work for the video game and animation industry, wherein he’s able to express a love for adventure, grand landscapes, vehicle design and occasionally, Porsches.

In his short illustrated series “Pacifica”, he tells the story of Danica, driver of an early 70s Porsche 911 as she drives through a lonely alt-universe American west coast. The car in the story looks like it might once have resembled his own, though dirtier, more weathered and more tinkered with. A stark contrast to the exquisite condition of his 1973 911T. Clearly, the divisions between art and life are very well defined for Zhang.

“From a very young age I’ve been a big fan of adventure stories about faraway lands. History books and National Geographic piqued my interest even more. Some of my favourite characters were Indiana Jones and Tintin, both heroes who tough it out in hostile places. I graduated with a BFA in Ilustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and I’ve spent the past 10 years as a concept designer for companies like Treyarch and Dreamworks.

I feel I’m the opposite to the art I make, like who I am is a juxtaposition. Danica’s 911 in Pacifica is like an alternate version of me who wouldn’t mind a patinated 911 with quirky aesthetics and a roof rack. In reality I want my car to reflect the understated, functional simplicity that I believe the creators of the 911 wanted to express. I’ve stared at the back windows on the car and pondered for hours over what stickers to even put on. Sometimes applying one and then deciding it was too distracting or flashy.”

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This remarkable geometric vision was designed recently by is only 20 minutes from central Stockholm, yet exists wrapped...
06/01/2025

This remarkable geometric vision was designed recently by is only 20 minutes from central Stockholm, yet exists wrapped in nature atop a small stone plateau overlooking a lake. Simply called the “House on the Hill”, the exterior feels like a modernist bunker - efficient in its use of nothing other than concrete, with a complex, yet easy to understand, concept across three floors that unfolds like origami. The designers compare it to a lighthouse, anchored on the exposed bedrock, although we’re not sure how many houses have a swimming pool in the lower floor.

Inside, each of the apertures casts a different angle on the natural world around them, with a minimalist design that can reflect the changing colours across the seasons and create an even deeper connection to nature 🌱

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Where else but the iconic ski town of Kitzbühel to celebrate and update Alpine architecture? Local office A2 Architektur...
05/01/2025

Where else but the iconic ski town of Kitzbühel to celebrate and update Alpine architecture? Local office A2 Architektur created this wood-clad home with an airy interior featuring rammed-earth walls that feel as timeless as the mountain landscape that surrounds it ⛷️ • 📸: .haimerl

“Everything feels in some way defensive,” architect Junya Ishigami says of the process of building anything in China, wi...
05/01/2025

“Everything feels in some way defensive,” architect Junya Ishigami says of the process of building anything in China, with its monumentally “vast, boundless landscapes.”

His answer? Go big. The recently-completed Zaishui Art Museum you see above stretches over 1 kilometre across the water near the coastal city of Rizhao. As Ishigami sees it, this is the best way to treat the environment and a building as an equal, blurring the boundaries between what is man-made and what isn’t. Along the meandering structure, the walkway casts a serpentine shape with the lake water seemingly coming into the space itself, allowed through small channels that will regulate the internal water levels.

There are no grand atriums - instead, the ceiling actually comes almost to head height in certain parts - and visitors are expected to walk the full length and back on their visit.

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“Mulholland Drive is my backyard racetrack,” Aidan de Cadenet () explains. “I know every crack, pothole, overtake spot, ...
04/01/2025

“Mulholland Drive is my backyard racetrack,” Aidan de Cadenet () explains. “I know every crack, pothole, overtake spot, corner and line in that little stretch of road that I could most likely do it blindfolded if I had to. It means so much to me. Every single day, I would pull out and turn west and just be free to have a fun run. With the 356, this was a natural stretch of road to exercise the car to the limits but to also cruise if I didn’t feel like playing the death lottery that day.

As most people know there is at times a 1000 foot drop on either side of the cliff-like road...I remember driving with dad in the car and just timing how quickly we could do one end to the other. We used to get the thing sideways most times but always had fun in the process. The only time I ever felt really nervous was when we took it out in the rain one day after adjusting the engine belt. My dad got that thing more sideways than how a crab walks and it really made me realize how capable the car is if you know how to drive it properly. 

Many people look down on the performance of a 356 in comparison to the 911, but they haven’t experienced driving one to its true limits. It’s a whole different ball game driving a slow car fast, and much more fun.”

Sentimentality hasn’t kept Aidan from pushing his 356 - if anything, it’s even more reason to. We asked him if he ever worries about the car;

“Never,” he says. “Cars are meant to be driven and fate is fate. If you obsess over these details that may or may not happen to you or your cars then you are largely missing the point about having them. The more scars the better, it tells your story and not someone else’s like with an overdone restoration like I see all too often with these cars. I wake up looking forward to what stone chips I can collect that day. It was something my dad and I both loved doing. When you drive for happiness you soon realize that the car turns into an extra limb of yourself and you become less worried about it than if you accidentally scratched your arm that day. Throw a Band-Aid on it, you will be fine.”

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Feeling infinite at ’s remarkable Bamboo Craft Village in Daoming County, China. The project was developed to create a n...
04/01/2025

Feeling infinite at ’s remarkable Bamboo Craft Village in Daoming County, China. The project was developed to create a new relationship between the country’s avabt-grade approach to architecture while retaining many traditional elements that have been found in Chinese buildings for centuries, while also providing a space to preserve the region’s master craftspeople, who create furniture and art by weaving strands of bamboo.

As impressive as the building itself is, the construction might be even more so; it was completed in only 52 days thanks to prefabrication of a number of critical elements using robots. In doing so, the designers found a way to affirm that craftsmanship and technology can live hand in hand🎋

Photos by Bian Lin, Huapeng Chu, Li Han, Wei Zang, Hua Chai, and Philip F. Yuan
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“As with all the things I take care of now, I will always still consider them to be my dad’s,” Aidan de Cadenet () conti...
03/01/2025

“As with all the things I take care of now, I will always still consider them to be my dad’s,” Aidan de Cadenet () continues from behind the wheel of his 1965 356 SC as we carve a canyon road above Los Angeles.

“I’ve mentioned this before but I am just the living entity that will cherish and look after them until the next person is tasked to do so after I’m dead. When I say “we” throughout this story, I use it to refer to him and me as that’s how it’s always been and nothing has changed nor will it ever.”

Naturally, the lifetime of memories in this car have leaked far beyond the metal itself. Aidan’s time in LA, and his emotional connection to it, is just as informed by the roads. “I do recall going up to Pebble Beach car week almost every year in it with my dad stretching that 6 hour drive out in the little thing,” he continues.

“We would roll the windows down and drive Highway 1 along the coastline through Big Sur to Carmel. It’s a fabulous drive that is every bit exciting as it is scenic. Some years we would take the back route into Carmel. My dad often described it as reminding him of the Targa Florio, which he drove a few times back in the golden years of racing. It was just a magic road filled with lovely nature and curves. I believe it’s still a little kept secret in the area, and I can see why.  

Driving Angeles Crest Highway was always so fun as well. We would creep along up to Newcomb’s Ranch, have a nice lunch, then tear on back home. We even got to drive it in the snow up there a couple of times which was endlessly thrilling.”

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