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Every once in a while, you just have to dream. Imagine a world where, after taking the crown at the Paris-Dakar Rally, r...
12/11/2025

Every once in a while, you just have to dream. Imagine a world where, after taking the crown at the Paris-Dakar Rally, racing at Le Mans as the 961, and ultimately bowing out with the end of the ballistic Group B racing homologation, the engineers at Weissach found a perfect final send off for the 959, in one of the few truly unlimited races on earth. ⁠
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That race is the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. For our team, there are few pieces of automotive film as captivating as Climb Dance, in which Ari Vatanen races to to the 14,115 foot summit of the legendary Colorado mountain in a blaze of dust and dawn light. Directed by Jean Louis Mourey and released in 1989, it captures the golden age of automotive technology like few others, where the understanding of combustion engines, turbocharging, aerodynamics, and cinematography all met to create something truly out of this world, and still plays in our minds nearly four decades since its release.⁠
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You are looking at the Tausendnägel - our take, in collaboration with artist , on the dream created by that film - named after the thousands of rivets used to marry the bodywork to the car. An imaginary, experimental, and wildly fast take on what was already the fastest supercar on the planet. It might not exist in the real world, but if you close your eyes, you can almost hear the twin turbos whistling at the Devil’s Playground as it takes the record 🏔️🏁
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It might look humble, but legendary architect Jean Prouvé pushed the boundaries with the project you see here. For decad...
12/11/2025

It might look humble, but legendary architect Jean Prouvé pushed the boundaries with the project you see here. For decades now, the architecture world keeps coming back to the concept of prefabricated housing, buildings designed for repeatable manufacturing and ease of transport, built and shipped at scale just like the many other mass produced goods that define the times we live in.⁠
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Though it feels like a very modern idea, its origins really took shape in the post-war period, when there was an urgent need for cheap, mass housing and an appetite for fresh solutions that architects like Jean Prouvé were more than willing to experiment with. Prouvé came up with dozens of prefabricated designs in this period, often with a strong emphasis on a lightweight aluminium structure similar to what you would find on aeroplanes, the mass production of which had been recently perfected during the war.⁠
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One of these designs was the ‘Bungalow du Cameroun’ - a dwelling Prouvé had devised specifically for the climate of Sub-Saharan Africa. It was simple, easily assembled and surprisingly ingenious in its methods of passive climate control. Many were built including some larger variants and some remain in Cameroon where they’re still in use to this day.⁠
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This example was returned to France by noted Prouvé aficionado Eric Touchaleaume of who maintains a collection of Prouvé’s original surviving works, restoring them to original specifications so they can be preserved for future generations.⁠
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Cars mean something different to each of us, for Javier (.chng), it’s a way of keeping his connection with late dog “Bus...
11/11/2025

Cars mean something different to each of us, for Javier (.chng), it’s a way of keeping his connection with late dog “Bushi.”⁠
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Born and raised in Singapore, Javier’s passion for cars began with Hot Wheels and evolved through RCs, karting, and now full-sized machines. He credits his father for sparking the obsession, one that continues to define his life. In 2019, he bought a Porsche 964, then still under the radar, which opened doors to a community of like-minded enthusiasts and lifelong friends.⁠
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“Bushi” was Javier’s first dog, a retired police K-9 who taught him loyalty and patience. In Chinese, “不失” translates to the act of preserving, a fitting reflection of Javier’s philosophy: to keep Bushi alive for as long as he can. Every modification, Tillett seats, Regamaster wheels, RS flywheel, Promodet gearing, have been made with intent, one step at a time, to deepen his connection with the car.⁠
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For Javier, the 964 offers something modern cars can’t. It demands focus, rewards presence, and makes every drive feel human. At the moment, he has no plans for another build, just more miles, more refinement, and more memories with Bushi.⁠
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Built as a perfect ring that also functions like a solar clock, House 720 Degrees by uses the blue skies above Valle de...
11/11/2025

Built as a perfect ring that also functions like a solar clock, House 720 Degrees by uses the blue skies above Valle de Bravo as a way to soak up the light and shadow across a central open patio, while giving panoramic views over dramatic landscape of this increasingly popular Mexican town.⁠
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To avoid the awkwardness that tends to come with curved rooms, more conventional rooms and halls are set within the circular floor plate, so movement through the house bends, while the spaces still feel familiar and easy to lay out. Consistent with the solar focus of the house, self-sufficiency is baked into the fabric of the house, with rainwater capture trouting to a large cistern beneath the patio, while solar power, cross-ventilation, and hydronic floors use solar-heated rainwater in the bedrooms ☀️⁠
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Photos by Rafael Gamo⁠
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Monday mood 🌙 • 📸:
10/11/2025

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Set across a ravine in Karjat, architects Wallmakers (.vinudaniel) have created a remarkable, organic home out of thatch...
10/11/2025

Set across a ravine in Karjat, architects Wallmakers (.vinudaniel) have created a remarkable, organic home out of thatch and mud, that’s somewhere between a suspension bridge and a tent. With four sweeping parabolas - inspired by the scales of a pangolin - and a ceiling that’s partly open to the elements, the architect set out with a goal to work using only local materials, which are remarkably sparse in the region. The result “floats like a giant cocoon, camouflaging itself easily in the dense foliage” 🌳⁠
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For this owner highlight, we caught up with one of our own, Brendan Mok (), Head of PR & Communications at Porsche Asia ...
09/11/2025

For this owner highlight, we caught up with one of our own, Brendan Mok (), Head of PR & Communications at Porsche Asia Pacific.⁠
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For Brendan, cars have always been more than machines, they’re stories of “spirited freedom to roam, David vs Goliath ambition, and genius born of necessity.” It’s this love of storytelling that anchors his passion for Porsche, a brand he describes as “universal — no matter who you are, everyone is a bit of a Porsche fan.”⁠
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His 997 GT3 channels that same spirit of balance and endurance. “It’s a perfect confluence of harmonies,” he says, comfortable enough for city drives yet raw and alive on track. Beneath its subtle exterior lie hidden upgrades: Ohlins suspension, a built motor, RS arms, and a Clubsport-inspired interior. Finished in Fayence Yellow as a nod to the Carrera GT, it embodies his philosophy of “power from a hidden place.”⁠
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On the rear glass, a mosaic of stickers tells the rest of the story: alpine passes, Spa Francorchamps, FAT Zell am See. Among them, a rare “Porsche Asia Pacific 20 Years” decal and the “60 Years of 911” emblem from the S/T press event. It’s worth noting that most of these aren’t for show but have been earned, through hundreds and hundreds of logged miles, with the most recent and distant run being a 1,000+ mile drive from Singapore to Bangkok.⁠
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In addition to his beloved GT3, Brendan mentions there is also a 997.2 Turbo S and 993 Carrera in the lineup, with the latter being one he hopes to use as a vintage driver in the future. “If anything it is now a journey of maintaining and safekeeping these cars for the future, as I don’t see how I would trade these for anything else!”⁠
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In a quiet village near Pisa, Italy, this deconsecrated chapel has been brought back from neglect as a space for creativ...
09/11/2025

In a quiet village near Pisa, Italy, this deconsecrated chapel has been brought back from neglect as a space for creativity at the hands of designers .vago, intended as a space for music-making under the vaulted ceilings. With an interior left largely untouched, the designers focused on adding unexpected splashes of colour throughout, with bright pops of blue and yellow, complimenting the remains of a fresco while emphasising its new art-forward identity 🎨⁠
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Photos by Carlotta Di Sandro⁠
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In case you need any proof that vintage helmet designs just hit different 🏁⁠⁠From bold sponsor typography to personal fl...
08/11/2025

In case you need any proof that vintage helmet designs just hit different 🏁⁠
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From bold sponsor typography to personal flourishes that turned helmets into rolling artworks, these vintage lids captured the individuality of their wearers and era. Before carbon fibre, CFD, and strict corporate indentities, all you had was style and spirit.⁠
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Which is your favorite? 👀⁠
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Photos from Porsche Newsroom and Type 7 archive⁠
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08/11/2025

Our Saturday sanctuary this week is a little unconventional: tucked behind a monolithic brutalist facade and doorway in Tokyo is the office of Wonderwall, founder Masamichi Katayama’s design studio 💭 • 🎥: Toha Inc /

“Whenever I drive the R, I’m overwhelmed by its power and precision. It’s almost unimaginable that such a car existed 60...
07/11/2025

“Whenever I drive the R, I’m overwhelmed by its power and precision. It’s almost unimaginable that such a car existed 60 years ago.”⁠
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It’s said that when Ferdinand Piëch led the original 911R project, he had his team dismantle a base 911 and had each component weighed on a scale against the part they’d sourced to replace it. Parts like the engine cover ended up on much smaller hinges, the door handles were remade in plastic and the lighting units were replaced with the lightest available at the time. Hundreds of these incremental changes led to a final weight figure of just 820kg.⁠
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Uwe’s car () is a very close recreation of that effort, and much like the original car, it was built to excel in long distance road rallies and European hillclimb events. “Our R feels particularly at home on tight hairpin bends and curves, allowing it to show its strengths to the full on alpine passes. Our favourite trips in the car are tours of the Alps, it’s an indescribable feeling of happiness whenever you reach a summit.⁠
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The R has everything you need for driving. The power delivery is vehement, it accelerates like a catapult, the sound at 7,500 RPM is unbelievable! Even when conditions are less than ideal and it’s pouring with rain, the car does what it’s supposed to do. The lightweight doors aren’t completely watertight, but with no insulation or carpet, it’s always easy to clean out.⁠
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Though it’s a race car, we don’t actually use it on the track. My wife Antje shares my passion for the car, so we both use it together or separately as a daily driver or for vacations and events. A week long trip in the R is exhausting and demanding. Nevertheless, whenever I return home, I always feel like I could just keep on driving.”⁠
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