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A day of colorful cars and people. I love being able to bring a bit of street photography to a car show. #rareshades7 #rareshades #porsche #000magazine #newyork

Before Chaoffice got to it, this site in Junxiang village outside Beijing was a wasteland 🌾⁠ ⁠ It was in a state of deca with collapsed walls, rubble, stray animals, and spiders the size of your palm. Three years later it’s one of the most playful, textured homes we’ve seen in China, and possibly the only five-bedroom house on earth with a metal slide connecting the upper terrace to the garden.⁠ ⁠ A 4.5-meter concrete cube, repeated and stacked across the terraced hillside, forms the structural grid. Reclaimed stones from the original collapsed building fill the frames, creating walls that look like they’ve been there for centuries. Inside, the mood shifts: warm plywood panelling, slatted timber screens, and Noguchi paper lanterns in a double-height living space with a quietly Japanese restraint.⁠ ⁠ Despite being a serious bit of architecture, Chaoffice still left a little room for fun. A stainless-steel tube slide spirals down from the upper level. A sunken outdoor bathtub looks out at the mountains. A tree grows through a gap in the terrace. The result is something between a rural retreat and an adventure park, designed by someone who understands materials.⁠ ⁠ Photos by @yumeng_zhu_coppakstudio

Opening day @fuoriconcorso was a dream 😍 This year’s theme, KraftMeister, celebrates German craftsmanship and engineering perfection. Set along the beautiful Lake Como, this is one of those events we’ll not soon forget and one you should add to your calendar if you missed it this year. Enjoy a selection of our favorite Porsches that were present and let us know which you like the most and why 👀 Video by @authenticallyap for @type7

Barcelona is a difficult city to drive a car like this in, but when the right moment comes there isn’t anywhere like it.⁠ ⁠ During the week, emission restrictions keep many classics out of the city. But when the weekend comes, @mateomaartin ’s 1975 Carrera 3.0 returns to where it makes sense: between the sea, the architecture, and the roads that lead out toward the hills. For him, that rhythm is part of the car’s character, it’s something you savour when it comes.⁠ ⁠ Mateo was born in Barcelona and grew up with Porsche close at hand. Now 21 years old, he’s studies Transportation Design at IED, and car culture is a central part of life.⁠ ⁠ “Porsche has been in my life since the day I was born. I’ve experienced the brand firsthand thanks to my father’s passion, which he passed down to me along with everything it means to own one. Over the years, I’ve realised that a Porsche isn’t just a car or an investment; driving it is a total immersion into a sea of sensations.”⁠ ⁠ That idea shapes the way he sees both the car and the world around it. Since 2023, Mateo has also co-led the Young Community within @porscheclubespana , helping create a space for younger enthusiasts to enter the marque on their own terms.⁠ ⁠ This particular 911 was already in Spain when Mateo’s father heard about it. What caught his attention was the model itself: a 1975 Carrera 3.0. “It was a car only manufactured between 1975 and 1976. Very few units were produced, and those from ’75 are even harder to find.”⁠ ⁠ If there is one place where the car feels most at home, it is Montseny. Roads like those are what keep older 911s relevant as something mechanical, tactile, and alive.⁠ ⁠ That same feeling is shared among the Young Community. For Mateo, the goal is not simply to gather owners, but to keep a legacy moving. Inside families, inside Spain, and between generations.⁠ ⁠ Photos and words by @efimov.works for @type7

How can you not love artist @kidtofer ’s porcelain interpretation of the 930 Turbo?? 😍 Photos by @adamwhyte.nyc

Five thousand books. One room. No internal walls 📚️⁠ ⁠ Masato Igarashi of @igaarchitects has designed himself a home on a 45-square-meter corner plot in Tokyo, essentially a single vertical space with a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf as its spine. ⁠ ⁠ Architecture books live on the ground floor, where the office is but climb higher and the collection shifts to manga, novels, and things that are “not work-related but a little more personal.” One Piece and Doraemon, for the record, are particular favorites.⁠ ⁠ The house is built from board-formed concrete blocks cast and cured on site, their surfaces carrying the grain of the timber formwork like a fingerprint. Warm timber floors and cabinetry soften what could have been a brutalist bunker into something unexpectedly gentle. Three staircases connect the mezzanine levels, each with its own character: one concrete, one steel, and one designed to look less like a staircase and more like furniture.⁠ ⁠ Masato lives here with his wife Tomoko, also an architect. No doors, no walls, no hiding. “We’ve become even closer since we moved in,” he laughs. “We can’t stay locked up in our rooms when we fight.” He hopes the house outlasts them both, perhaps becoming a cafe or museum one day. “Unlike clothes, you can’t just replace a house when you get bored of it.”⁠ ⁠ Photos by @ookijingu

Fifteen cars in three years and not one of them was right 🙆‍♂️⁠ ⁠ Rob’s hunt for a manual, Hong Kong-delivered 964 Carrera 2 was the kind of obsessive, borderline-irrational search that we can’t help but admire. In a city where Tiptronics dominated the ‘90s Porsche market, finding a proper three-pedal C2 was like looking for a needle in a very dense, very vertical haystack.⁠ ⁠ He started out wanting black. Every car he viewed had something wrong with it; a patchy history here, a questionable respray there. And then one day he found this one, painted in oak green, a colour he’d quietly loved since he was a kid playing Porsche Challenge on his PlayStation 1. When he went to sign the paperwork, he noticed something that sealed it: the previous owner shared his first and last name. Some things are just meant to be.⁠ ⁠ That was almost ten years ago, and Rob still daily drives it through the steep, narrow streets of Hong Kong Island. A lightweight flywheel keeps things entertaining, and a tropical AC upgrade means summer humidity is no match for the commitment. ⁠ ⁠ “It’s just the right performance package for Hong Kong in my opinion,” he says. “It was the first Porsche I bought, and somehow the best suited for our roads. We don’t exactly have an abundance of space here. When I drove my GT3 or even 997 it’d just eat whatever road you drive down; the experience is over before you get a chance to enjoy it. But with the 964 C2 I can use it as it deserves to be used.”⁠ ⁠ And every time he parks in Central, an older finance guy inevitably stops to share a wistful story about the Porsche they had back in the day. Some cars are just meant to be 👌⁠ ⁠ Photos and words by @964Jasper for @type7

Roughly 20 911R models were made from 1966 to ‘67... and nearly one fourth of them recently met up a limestone quarry in East Tennessee 🤯 In addition to these rare specimens, Porsche Plática’s 2026 brought together some of the most distinctive examples of the model’s 2016 homage, tucked within the sculptured limestone walls and verdant forests of The Quarry Venue, one of those settings that feels almost too beautiful to be real, let alone to park some of the most significant Porsches ever made inside. The centerpiece was a lineup of 30+ 991-generation 911 R examples, arranged alongside a full spectrum of 911s and GT models in nearly every configuration and color imaginable. Paint-to-sample 997 GT3 RS builds, a genuine Porsche 917, a 962 and 962C all sharing the same limestone walls. Calling it a Porsche mecca almost feels like an understatement. Almost. What makes Plática different from your average concours is what happens away from the static display. Group drives through the Tail of the Dragon and Cherohala Skyway delivered some of the most scenic and spirited stretches of road in the country, and Flatrock Motor Club opened its 3.5-mile circuit to give nearly every generation of the 911 a chance to properly stretch its legs. Plática is carving out its own identity on the eastern calendar, sitting alongside Luftgekühlt and Air|Water but with a warmth and intimacy that feels distinctly Tennessean. The name translates to “conversation” in Spanish, and that spirit genuinely runs through every corner of it. Photos by @rileypkng Words by @authenticallyap for @type7

@slowcoraldesign built a cafe inside a cliff in China’s Yandang Mountains and yes, it’s as extraordinary as it sounds ⛰️⁠ ⁠ Part of a revitalization effort within the Yandangshan Scenic Area in Zhejiang Province, the project transforms naturally occurring caves along volcanic cliffs into two immersive public spaces, each suspended high above the valley floor, inside a UNESCO Global Geopark famous for its mist-covered valleys and ancient rock formations.⁠ ⁠ Platforms, terraces and enclosed glass viewing rooms are inserted carefully into the existing rock, the mountain left almost completely untouched overhead. Massive stone ceilings hang above warm timber floors and rattan furniture while razor-thin LED strips trace pathways along surfaces that have existed for millions of years. The standout gesture is a floating geometric observation room jutting out beneath the cave ceiling: angular and contemporary against the mineral surfaces around it.⁠ ⁠ In daylight the volcanic rock glows amber; by evening concealed lighting gives the whole space a cinematic feeling, the cafe glowing from the cliff face while the mountains dissolve into darkness.⁠ ⁠ Photos by @pannjie @slowcoraldesign

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“I met JP in a rather funny way.” Husain (@911mak ) recalls. “One day, I found a note on my car in the parking lot. It said he was looking to buy a similar car and suggested we meet for coffee. I was driving a 964 Turbo 3.6 at the time and, honestly, had gotten used to receiving notes like that.”⁠ ⁠ JP (@turbodxb ) laughs, “My wife teases me to this day over how I left a note on his car inviting him for a coffee. She couldn’t believe I got a call back!”⁠ ⁠ Husain didn’t expect his neighbour to be a hardcore Porsche enthusiast, but JP’s immaculate Cassis Red example says otherwise. “It’s one of three Cassis 930 Slantnose M505 cars in the world,” he’s proud to share.⁠ ⁠ It wasn’t JP’s first Porsche, but followed in the tyre tracks of a Zermatt Silver 964 Turbo 3.6 - once owned by a Microsoft executive, exported to the UAE from Texas. Husain, meanwhile, started his Porsche journey with a pearl white 993 Turbo X50.⁠ ⁠ Yet as his collection grew, he felt something was missing. “I wanted an air-cooled car that represented the earlier generation, but it took time to find the right one.” Then, this Japan-ordered 1989 Carrera 3.2 appeared in Belgium.⁠ ⁠ “It blew me away. A 1989 car, the final year of production, with a G50 gearbox, slick-top, in jubilee Diamond Blue and the incredibly rare Studio Check interior. I had to have it.”⁠ ⁠ It looks tame compared to the Turbo; narrow hips, a slender deck lid and a tamer paint finish, but it allows the burgundy fabric to pop when you peer through the glass. JP’s car came with an all-leather interior, but he sourced a pair of sports seats and had them trimmed in the bolder Studio Check instead.⁠ ⁠ The 944 Turbo Cup may be the ‘baby’ of the group, but it’s arguably the most special. The 1988 Turbo S model came with the alternate badging in France and Spain - to promote the race series of the same name.⁠ ⁠ Finished in Silver Rose paint with ultra-rare red ‘Turbo’ script on its front wing, it’s poetry on wheels. Joint-owned, the 944 is a mark of the pair’s friendship. It’s a return to JP’s childhood, and an example of Husain’s hunger for a wide range of Porsches.⁠ ⁠ Photos and words by @mcwpn for @type7 ⁠ ⁠ Part 2/2

Designed in part using Lego, Montreal’s Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie (@safdiearchitects ) was an effort at reinventing the low cost apartment building, offering residents a standard of living more in line with the city’s far flung suburbs 🧱 Driving all across Montreal, he cleaned out the city’s toy shops of Lego and went to work finding different ways to stack the bricks, experimenting with layouts that would offer garden space, sunlight, and fresh air to each “house” without compromising on structural integrity.⁠ ⁠ The entire thing is built from identical concrete modules. Translated from the studies in miniature, they were stacked one by one to form three robust pyramids on the edge of the St Lawrence River. The modules were designed so that any one of them could be fitted with bedrooms, bathrooms or kitchen spaces on the ground before being hoisted into place by a specially built crane. They were laid out atop one another in a criss cross pattern, which left so much roof space that every single apartment could have a private garden at least twenty square meters in size, though some were much larger than that.⁠ ⁠ Upon its completion, it was hailed as a star attraction of the 1967 world’s fair, welcoming visitors to pass throughout the different apartments. The applications to live in the building quickly filled up and to this day the units remain highly sought after on the rare occasion they come up for sale.⁠ ⁠ Photos via @safdiearchitects ⁠ Words by @therealalfiemunkenbeck for @type7