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In a quiet Milanese suburb filled with conventional Art Nouveau estates, a 1970s hymn to Italian brutalism stands as a m...
23/06/2026

In a quiet Milanese suburb filled with conventional Art Nouveau estates, a 1970s hymn to Italian brutalism stands as a masterclass in structural drama, and a concrete time capsule to life as it once was.⁠
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Designed by Como-based architect Francesco Castiglioni, the home’s true focal point is a monumental, double-height sitting room tucked beneath a dramatic sloping ceiling. A two-tier mezzanine hangs over the sofa as though the room was really destined to be a prestige opera house, not a quaint Milanese residence.⁠
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Towering concrete chimneys and rough textured facades stand proud and unapologetic, somehow untouched by ill-judged renovations or unnecessary cladding as so many homes of this era were. Glazed walls dissolve the boundary between the interiors and a lush, 3,800-square-meter garden, while multiple outdoor terraces offer the opportunity to enjoy the fresh air without fully stepping out.⁠
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The 70s were a very transitional time for design, trapped in many ways between the colourful looseness of the 60s and the much more austere rigidity of the 80s. Elements of both are present here and it’s rare to see those two pulls feel so well resolved in a single package. Rarer still that somebody appreciated it well enough to preserve its originality, but we’re very happy they did.⁠
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Photos by Italy | Sotheby's Realty⁠
Words by for Type 7

“I’ve driven past this aerodrome a thousand times before, but never stopped to visit it.”⁠⁠On this particular Sunday aft...
23/06/2026

“I’ve driven past this aerodrome a thousand times before, but never stopped to visit it.”⁠
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On this particular Sunday afternoon, as the final days of summer faded away in Spain, we met with Alvaro (Alvaro Rollan) and Joaquin (Joaquin Cumellas | Community Builder), two friends connected through Escuderia Barcelona, a project designed to bring together young people across the city who share a love for classic culture, especially classic cars.⁠
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It just so happens that these two drive some of the coolest classics ever made: the Porsche 356.⁠
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“I’ve been passionate about cars for as long as I can remember,” Joaquin explains. “This 356 SC Cabriolet has been in my family much longer than I’ve been alive. It was my grandfather’s favourite car, and since he passed away I’ve felt an even stronger bond with it.⁠
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My passion kept growing every year as my dad took me to rallies, classic car meetings, and all sorts of automotive events. But there was always something missing: people my age. Most either didn’t know these events existed or simply weren’t interested.⁠
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When I was 21, I met a couple of friends who shared the same vision. That’s when we decided to start Escuderia Barcelona.”⁠
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Photos and words by Pol A. Foguet for Type 7⁠
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For one weekend each year, Poland’s Hel Peninsula becomes home to one of the most interesting gatherings on the Porsche ...
22/06/2026

For one weekend each year, Poland’s Hel Peninsula becomes home to one of the most interesting gatherings on the Porsche calendar. 🏄

Hel Riders brings together an eclectic mix of cars, surfboards, skateboards, music and art. What stands out most of all though is the setting. This year’s event began with dozens of Porsches taking over a seaside theme park, creating a backdrop unlike anything found at a traditional automotive gathering.

It’s also one of the greatest hubs for the automotive world’s more artistic side. Everywhere you look there’s an interesting paint job, a unique interior, or a whole art car prepped specially for this weekend. For the Porsche community of Poland, it’s yet another chance to show how much they’re advancing the game year over year, and there are no signs that’s going to slow down soon.

The second day shifted the focus from the cars themselves to the culture surrounding them. Surfers headed for the water, skaters filled the ramps and conversations stretched late into the evening.

Among countless memorable scenes, one stood out above all others: skaters launching themselves over a Porsche 928 parked on the sand. An image that somehow captured the spirit of Hel Riders better than any concours lawn ever could.

Photos and Words by Alejandro Arretureta | Berlin for Type 7

Somewhere between Noto and the sea, Crudo looks like the kind of architectural fantasy that usually lives only in render...
22/06/2026

Somewhere between Noto and the sea, Crudo looks like the kind of architectural fantasy that usually lives only in renderings. Except this one is real, and you can actually spend your holiday there.⁠
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The villa is folded into the slope so completely that, from certain angles, it almost disappears. Local travertine runs through the walls and floors, while the roof is treated like another piece of landscape. Above it, a slim swimming pool cuts across the house like an enormous diving board.⁠
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The clever bit is how each space feels genuinely distinct. The upper level holds the living spaces, opened wide to the view across southeast Sicily toward the sea. Below, the bedrooms sit in a quieter, more protected layer, where warm timber softens the concrete and stone. Curves keep interrupting the hard geometry: a retaining wall here, a softened terrace there, a corridor that feels carved rather than drawn.⁠
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Images via specialitaly | luxury villas

Cars sometimes find themselves fitting so inextricably well into their surroundings that the whole scene looks staged. T...
22/06/2026

Cars sometimes find themselves fitting so inextricably well into their surroundings that the whole scene looks staged. This black 356 you see here isn’t part of a movie set, yet it fits perfectly underneath the swooping canopy of the Metropol Garage, a long under-appreciated Bauhaus landmark in Northern Munich.⁠
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The Garage, originally constructed in 1928 as a gas station and car repair shop, spent most of its life since as a multi-storey parking garage – one of the first in Germany. A notable product of the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) movement, distinguishable by its sharp lines, flat roofs, and a kind of militant neatness - the structure nonetheless fell into disrepair in the latter half of the 20th century.⁠
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Today, however, its future is guaranteed. The clean curves of the Garage courted the favour of Munich-based investor and art patron Markus Michalke, who subsequently played a vital role in saving the building from demolition. Through sympathetic restoration sensitive to the structure’s original design and character, he has established it as a venue for art exhibitions and cultural events.⁠
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The life story of the Metropol Garage raises the question of how many other pieces of architectural history are waiting for an enthusiastic devotee to save them from the sands of time… and what cars will complete their scenes.⁠
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Words by  for Type 7⁠
Photos by Will for Type 7

Silverstone has always been good at turning noise into theatre, but this weekend it gave us something warmer too: a prop...
21/06/2026

Silverstone has always been good at turning noise into theatre, but this weekend it gave us something warmer too: a proper homecoming for the UK Porsche community 🌞

For Icons of Porsche, Sunstede Silverstone Edition, Porsche GB took over the Porsche Experience Centre to celebrate 75 years since Porsche sports cars first arrived in the UK. Across 20 and 21 June, enthusiasts came in from all over the country for a summer festival built around the good stuff: dynamic driving displays, heritage cars, modern icons, live music, panel talks, good food and the kind of car park wandering that can quietly steal half your afternoon.

Type 7 was there in the middle of it, welcoming people into our corner of the weekend and giving the whole thing a bit of our usual visual mischief. The joy of Sunstede was that it never felt like a static anniversary display. It felt alive. Seven racing Porsches sat alongside the modern cars they helped shape; track action kept the place moving; owners, fans and families filled in the gaps with stories, colour and very British levels of weather optimism.

Mostly, though, it was a reminder that Porsche in Great Britain has never just been about the cars. It is the people who chase them, collect them, photograph them, argue lovingly about them and drive across the country to stand around them with a coffee in hand. We were very happy to be there for that.

Special thanks to everyone who stopped by the Type 7 booth to have a coffee and a chinwag 🫶

As we celebrate 50 years of transaxle Porsches, it’s worth looking back at where that era really peaked with this, the 9...
21/06/2026

As we celebrate 50 years of transaxle Porsches, it’s worth looking back at where that era really peaked with this, the 968 Club Sport. Oft-forgotten by even the most astute of Porsche enthusiasts, the Club Sport is about as close as these cars got to an RS variant. Lightweight, powerful and perfectly balanced, it was a very long road to get here from the early days of the humble 924.⁠
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Club Sports came in some of the best paint shades the 90s had to offer, like this example in Riviera Blue, and they almost always had colour matched wheels and RS buckets inside. They saved around a hundred kilograms from the base model but they still ran a 3.0 litre Variocam engine, at the time the largest 4 cylinder fitted to any production car. Following all its little improvements over the standard 968, Walter Röhrl himself declared it the best handling Porsche ever made.⁠
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It was the final crescendo of the entire platform, which ceased production in 1995 to make way for the imminent release of the Boxster. Had it gone on longer who knows where the transaxle lineup would be today. To those that know however, the 968 Club Sport was more than a worthy conclusion to this unique chapter in Porsche’s history.⁠
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Photos courtesy of Howard Kay

Here’s a lovely contradiction from Yokohama: an apartment building made almost entirely from concrete that somehow manag...
21/06/2026

Here’s a lovely contradiction from Yokohama: an apartment building made almost entirely from concrete that somehow manages to avoid every straight line it can 🧘⁠
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Designed by in Okurayama, the project squeezes nine roughly 50-square-meter homes onto a 458-square-meter site near the station. The obvious move would have been to pack the plot as efficiently as possible. Sejima did the opposite, carving gardens, courtyards and terraces through the three-story volume and turning the building into a loose strip of rooms, voids and outdoor pockets.⁠
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From the street, the apartments read as a pale, quiet mass tucked into the neighborhood; inside, the walls begin to curve, light drops in from above, and each dwelling finds its own relationship with the outside. One home opens around a garden at ground level. Another slips into a fork-shaped room and terrace higher up. Privacy is kept, but the usual line between interior, exterior and neighbor starts to blur, in the best way possible.⁠
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Photos by Iwan Baan

On the ground at Hel Riders, the Hel peninsula on Poland’s north coast is currently playing host to central Europe’s Por...
20/06/2026

On the ground at Hel Riders, the Hel peninsula on Poland’s north coast is currently playing host to central Europe’s Porsche community in one of the best summer annuals on the calendar. 🏄

Paweł Kalinowski (Paweł Kalinowski), owner of CarBone® down in Łódź, is one of the community’s most prominent faces, and the car he brought this year is a little different.

The Porsche 356 shell at the centre of his “Ghost Layer of Shinjuku” art car is not strictly the subject of the work, but more a vessel for storytelling, locking away the memories of a life it might have had rallying through 1960s Japan before it decayed to the state you see it in now.

Earlier this year Kalinowski first explored the energy of Japan’s night-time car culture with his Shinjuku art car, the predecessor of this piece. Ghost Layer feels like its counterpart: less concerned with what the journey entails, and more in what remains after it’s over.

What drew him to the project was the contrast between a machine once associated with freedom, movement and adventure, and the silent shell that remains today. Rather than restoring the car, Kalinowski felt compelled to celebrate it as an archaeological object carrying traces of time and human experience.

Hidden throughout the installation are eleven handwritten notes and eleven corresponding artefacts, including rust, ash, family photographs and fragments of maps. Some details only emerge under ultraviolet light, revealing fragments of a fictional story centred on a Japanese amateur rally driver navigating family expectations, sacrifice and the personal cost of pursuing a passion.

It is as though a whole novel was written into metal and sculpture, telling a tell only for those with the eyes to read it.

Photos and words by Alejandro Arretureta | Berlin for Type 7

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