This Moscow Forest Garage Is Really a Sculpture Gallery for Cars

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Not every garage is built to store cars — some are built to celebrate them. For them, Russian architecture studio ATRIUM has completed the ‘Garage for Car Collection’— a 200 square meter structure tucked into a wooded private estate on the outskirts of Moscow that treats its automobiles less like machines and more like museum-worthy objects.

The project is the latest addition to a private estate, ATRIUM, originally designed in the early 2000s, which includes a manor house and guest house. Rather than a standalone commission, this garage continues a deliberate architectural lineage — only this time, the brief called for something far more layered. The building doesn’t just store cars. It functions as a curated vehicle gallery, a home gym, a business meeting space, a lounge, a mud room, and even a ski rack room — all unified under a single, fluid envelope.

Designer: ATRIUM

The form that holds all of this together is drawn from the Möbius strip. A continuous ribbon-like gesture wraps around the site, organizing the program across three levels. At ground level, a glazed exhibition space — framed by expansive facades with ultra-thin profiles on the north and south sides — puts the vehicle collection on full display. The ribbon then ascends diagonally to a rooftop outdoor workout terrace, while descending below grade into a gym and office, where discreet ground-level apertures pull in natural light without disrupting the building’s clean exterior reading.

Materiality is where ATRIUM’s precision really shows. The exterior is clad in seamless white Corian — a surface that evokes aerodynamic engineering — while wood and copper warm up the interior spaces. The contrast is intentional: the building reads as something athletic and mechanical from the outside, intimate and refined from within. It’s a space that mirrors the cars it shelters.

What makes the project genuinely remarkable, though, is what wasn’t touched. Every existing tree on the wooded plot was preserved, with the building’s footprint carefully negotiated around the forest. In a field where development and ecology tend to work against each other, ATRIUM treats the surrounding woodland as a collaborator rather than an obstacle. The underground expansion minimizes the building’s visible impact on the landscape, letting the structure feel as though it surfaced from the forest floor rather than was imposed upon it.

Completed in 2024, the project was designed in 2020 by a team led by Anton Nadtochiy and Vera Butko. It has since been named a finalist at the World Architecture Festival 2025 in two categories: Completed Buildings – Transport, and the Small Project Prize — recognition that confirms what the building itself already suggests: the garage, as a typology, has been quietly, elegantly reimagined.

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Satechi Just Fixed the Speed Drop Problem With an 80Gbps Drive Case

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External SSD enclosures have always had a frustrating contradiction at their core. The good ones are fast, but fast enough for long enough is a different story. Sustained transfers, especially when you’re moving large video projects or running a drive-intensive backup, will push most passive enclosures into thermal throttling territory, and that’s when the speed bar you were watching suddenly takes a dive.

That’s the problem Satechi targets with the DotDisk 80Gbps SSD Enclosure, a compact M.2 enclosure designed for the kind of demanding, sustained transfers that would bring most portable drives to their knees. The San Diego-based brand is known for design-forward accessories that don’t compromise on performance, and the DotDisk is built around the idea that fast should also mean consistently fast.

Designer: Satechi

The headline figure is 80Gbps, unlocked through USB4 V2 and full Thunderbolt 5 support. That’s in a different category from the USB 3.2 or even USB4 Gen 2 enclosures most people are still using. In practice, it means multi-gigabyte transfers that used to take several minutes now take seconds, and video editors offloading large ProRes or RAW files won’t have to schedule their coffee break around a progress bar anymore.

The active thermal cooling system is what makes those speeds sustainable. Inside the precision-milled aluminum shell, a microfan and thermal pad work together to keep the drive temperature in check during extended use. This isn’t the passive approach of punching holes in an enclosure and hoping for the best. The active system keeps the DotDisk running at full speed throughout a long session without slowing down mid-transfer.

The enclosure accepts M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs up to 8TB, giving you the flexibility to install whatever drive fits your current needs and upgrade it later without buying a new enclosure. It’s also compatible with Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4, so it works across Mac and Windows setups without friction. You’re not locked into one ecosystem, which matters when you’re moving between a MacBook and a Windows workstation throughout the week.

The body itself is compact enough to slip into any bag pocket and doesn’t demand attention on a desk. A subtle LED indicator confirms the connection without being distracting about it. The box includes a 30 cm Thunderbolt 5 cable, a small screwdriver, and the screws to install your SSD, so you can be up and running without hunting for additional tools. It comes in Silver or Space Black.

At $199.99, the DotDisk lands where you’d expect a well-built, actively cooled Thunderbolt 5 enclosure to sit. That’s a reasonable price given what you’re getting, especially considering that the enclosure is built to outlast the drives you put in it. Supporting SSDs up to 8TB means there’s room to grow your storage over time without having to replace the enclosure along the way. For creators who’ve spent any amount of time watching transfer speeds drop halfway through a session, the active cooling system alone makes the DotDisk worth taking seriously.

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