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Intense heat, cacophonous noise, breakneck turns and the relentless endurance of that pushrod flat 4. As I write this no...
10/12/2025

Intense heat, cacophonous noise, breakneck turns and the relentless endurance of that pushrod flat 4. As I write this now I’ve been home a day, sitting in a cool December breeze some 7000 miles away, trying to recall the sensations of an adventure so dense, it’s hard to confront if it even happened at all.⁠
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Back in the Philippines, the cars of the are disbanding back to their homes, regaining strength for next year’s return. Our own car, a Porsche 356C lent to us by , is undoubtedly undergoing a post-rally recovery. Though it survived the 1000km largely unscathed, a cracked Nardi steering wheel rim and a few worn out driveshaft nuts were the inevitable casualties of driving hard 10-hour days in this 60 year old sports car.⁠
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I like to think I’m no stranger to a long drive in an old vehicle, but all previous experience had been child’s play compared with muscling through a haze of scooters and overloaded work trucks in the remote hills of Negros Island, Philippines. As a venue for a long distance rally, nothing compares to it for sheer sensory overload.⁠
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I don’t mind admitting that taking part in this event initially intimidated me. I’d never been to South East Asia, much less driven there. Engaging with the basic tourist experience never really appealed but going with an invitation to discover the heart of a small but incredibly passionate culture of classic cars was something we couldn’t dare pass up. It’s a crowd that doesn’t get anywhere near the international recognition it deserves, as I would soon come to find.⁠
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The Tour de Cebu itself is a regularity event, a competition focused more on navigational accuracy and the ability to maintain an average speed than it is an outright time trial. For the best of the 50+ entrants, this can get incredibly competitive, though it’s a much more casual affair for many others. I can reveal now that the distraction of taking these film photos put the Type 7 356 firmly in last place. Really though - it’s hard to come out of an experience like that and feel we’d lost anything at all.⁠
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09/12/2025

A dream weekend in Seoul with and their Erevo Union event 🇰🇷

A first-look at Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport, showcased for the very first time in Seoul, and a stunning curation of community cars that spanned generations - with plenty of special models, including the likes of a Speedster, 911R, GT3 Touring, Carrera “40 Jahre,” and more.

We were thrilled to have the community check it out our latest book alongside our other titles. For those in Seoul who missed the event, you can always pop by Erevo Sinsa to check out the books in person, or head to the link in our bio to secure your copy 📚

Wrapped by a lily-pond moat and a curtain of vines, there’s a brutalist warmth at Antriya by 23 Degrees Design Shift, a ...
09/12/2025

Wrapped by a lily-pond moat and a curtain of vines, there’s a brutalist warmth at Antriya by 23 Degrees Design Shift, a multi-generational home set on a huge plot just to the south of Hyderabad. Blending a locally-quarried Khammam sandstone and concrete, dripping in vines and deep overhangs. The water body encircling the house functions to cool the base of the house as well as keeping wildlife out 🐍⁠
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Photos by Shamanth Patil⁠
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“My father bought this car in Southern California in the mid-80s, since then it’s become part of our family’s story.”⁠⁠R...
09/12/2025

“My father bought this car in Southern California in the mid-80s, since then it’s become part of our family’s story.”⁠
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Robert Gordon Thomas’ slate grey Porsche 356 C () is among the last ever made, representing a point of transition for Porsche between niche hand-made carmaker and mainstream mass-manufacturer. Compared with earlier cars it was built with considerably more refined production methods and you can almost see nascent traces of 911 DNA showing through in the details. Robert’s car even rolled off the line alongside some of the first 911s before taking a boat to the US, where it would eventually cross paths with his father.⁠
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“He used to travel to Los Angeles frequently,” Robert explains. “He kept a tight circle of like minded ‘car guys’ and often sourced special vehicles over there to bring back to Europe. One day he discovered a few 356 Coupes on offer from a specialist, three of which he bought to take home. He eventually passed this one on to a friend, but around 1999 I finally had the opportunity to bring it back into the family - a chance I couldn’t miss.⁠
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It’s a nimble little car that proves the saying ‘speed is a number, fast is a feeling’. It’s taken us on countless memorable road trips, through the Alps and the Italian lakes in the 90s and again after I retook ownership. Since then I’ve worked to give it the sort of performance and presence it deserves. I took it to Bienert Motorsport for a fresh 2 litre engine with larger carburettors, revised suspension and the removal of its original bumper guards for a cleaner, sportier look. The perfect finishing touch was the centre exit Sebring exhaust - just like the original competition cars of the time.⁠
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No matter what else is in the garage, the 356 remains the heart of our family’s Porsche story - a car that has crossed continents, united generations and embodied the pure spirit of driving.”⁠
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The Weissach Testing Facility is the beating heart of Porsche’s motorsports development. It is here, a short drive from ...
08/12/2025

The Weissach Testing Facility is the beating heart of Porsche’s motorsports development. It is here, a short drive from the main Porsche headquarters in Zuffenhausen, that generations of racing cars have been conceived, painstakingly developed, and tested using the latest technologies of the time. Its origins trace back to the late 1950s, when Ferry Porsche recognised a need for a private and dedicated proving ground that could accommodate not only the increasing technological demands, but the increased personnel required to develop race-winning cars. The perfect location was unknown until Herbert Linge – who would go on to become Operations Manager of the Weissach Development Center – suggested a parcel of secluded land near Weissach and Flacht, near his home. ⁠
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One of Weissach’s most remarkable aspects is its ability to quickly adapt to the ever-changing demands of motorsports technology, where the cutting edge of material and aerodynamic design meet human performance and ingenuity. Starting with only a handful of buildings, the site is now a hive of activity across numerous ‘Werk’ buildings, each one highly specialised. An on-site wind tunnel – a crucial technological step – was first introduced in the 1980s. It became instrumental in perfecting the 956’s ground-effect design, a technology that reshaped endurance racing and motorsports as a whole.⁠
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Read the full story behind this remarkable site, and the tales behind over the 200+ items within Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport, available now at type7.com 🏁

Hidden on an island near the Hamptons, ’s latest project functions as perhaps one of the most luxurious ways to watch th...
08/12/2025

Hidden on an island near the Hamptons, ’s latest project functions as perhaps one of the most luxurious ways to watch the wildlife that we’ve ever seen. Camouflaged behind a thicket of trees, and with an inverted living plan giving elevated views over the water, the panoramic windows look out over the water and marshland for birdwatching 🦅⁠
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Photos by Jake Balston⁠
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Sunday Safari 🦒🏁 • 📸:
07/12/2025

Sunday Safari 🦒🏁 • 📸:

Set on the bedrock above Terence Bay in Canada this project by Peter Braithwaite Studio was originally conceived as a pu...
07/12/2025

Set on the bedrock above Terence Bay in Canada this project by Peter Braithwaite Studio was originally conceived as a public boathouse, but slowly evolved into a compact house with a razor-sharp roofline that sheds the heavy snow. Hard to imagine a better place to hide out over winter ❄️⁠ • 📸: Ema Peter

There’s something to be said about spaces where you can simply take the time to celebrate the finer things in life, and ...
06/12/2025

There’s something to be said about spaces where you can simply take the time to celebrate the finer things in life, and if you happen to be in New Jersey then the space you see above might just be your new home away from home. Located around an hour south of Manhattan, the Shore Car Club () is one of the state’s first private members automotive clubs, penned by architect to be something more than a simple storage space. The site spans around 40,000 square feet, with an open air lobby and vast lounge leading to glass-lined club spaces that look onto the storage “Gallery.” The cars here become an integral part of the architecture, surrounded by art and everything you need to keep the machine you love cosy.⁠
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Head deeper and the treats keep coming. There’s a library, a simulator room for both golf and driving, a roof garden and terrace, and private dining spaces. The result is a space that we’d probably only leave if we wanted to take the GT3 off the trickle charger and head out for a drive 💭⁠
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Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport is now available 🏁⁠⁠An unparalleled artistic view into the items, stories, and humans that...
06/12/2025

Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport is now available 🏁⁠
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An unparalleled artistic view into the items, stories, and humans that have powered Porsche through decades of historic victories and competition until today. Curated, researched, and photographed within the secretive sites of Porsche, including the legendary Weissach Development Centre, in association with .motorsport and the Porsche Corporate Archive.⁠
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Spanning 550 pages and over 250 individual items, Artifacts: Porsche Motorsport traces the story of competition from the first days to the modern era, housed with a 7.7kg package designed in collaboration with Andy Cruz of .⁠

Available at type7.com 🔗

Today we’re remembering one of the most influential architects of the last half-century by looking back at the home he b...
05/12/2025

Today we’re remembering one of the most influential architects of the last half-century by looking back at the home he built for himself - one that shows the bright, unusual spark that catapulted him into the hall of fame of the 21st Century starchitects.⁠
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The Gehry Residence is full of chainlink fence sections, corrugated steel and wonky carpentry. While it may sound like the wording of a court ordered demolition notice, it has actually stood like this for 46 years, and was the home and project of a young, as yet largely unknown, Frank Gehry.⁠
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Gehry was one of the most important figures in a movement known as deconstructivism in architectural circles. It’s a movement that’s birthed some of the most complex and abstract buildings ever made, like the Bilbao Guggenheim or the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where the sheer ambition of curvature is only matched by the size of their construction budgets.⁠
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By contrast the extensions on the Gehry residence came to just $50,000, built from cheap or reclaimed materials that Gehry didn’t express much of a desire to overspend on. In his early life he used to build models from the scrap wood cuttings of his father’s hardware shop. Design on the cheap wasn’t something he was unused to. The physical shape, regardless of what he could make it from, was the operative feature of the whole experiment.⁠
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He wanted the extensions to appear to be exploding from within the house, as though an abstract expression was bursting free of a conservative shell. The neighbours hated it of course, they complained to the city and even threatened to sue. The origin story of deconstructivism, the style he came to define across his career, was unsurprisingly just as controversial and thought provoking as the sprawling projects that laid ahead of him.⁠
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