NINTENDO DS BUILDING

It's almost complete. Via Amusement

WORLD RECORD HOUSE OF CARDS

American architect Bryan Berg has succeeded himself as the world record holder in number of cards stacked. Bryan Berg used 218,792 cards(4,051 decks) to create a replica of the Venetian Macau with no glue or other aids to hold them together. Berg took 44 days to complete his model inside the Venetian, which sits at the heart of Macau's Cotai Strip, the China-ruled city's version of Las Vegas' neon alley. The hotel replica stands almost ten feet tall and is 33 feet long! Cool!

'This has been the most ambitious project I have undertaken to date,’ Berg said.
‘It’s really like a real construction project because you have to engineer every single adjacency and every support that’s supporting everything above,’ he added.

‘I was inspired to stack cards by my card-playing grandfather; maybe I can inspire some visitors at The Venetian Macao to try their hand at building their own structures.
‘There couldn’t be a more fitting place to build the world’s largest house of cards than at the world’s largest resort hotel,” he added.

Via Dailymail

ALUMINUM COTTAGE

DOPE HUH??? Via blueantstudio

VERTICAL VILLAGE BY GRAFT LAB

The Vertical Village by Graft Lab is a multiple-use development for Dubai, which is designed to provide space for residential, hotel and entertainment facilities, while harnessing solar energy to the maximum. The complex is organized to reduce solar gain and maximize solar production, which is the most powerful renewable source of energy in the desert. Via flylyf

LOUIS VUITTON: FASHION, ART & ARCHITECTURE VIDEO

THE CITADEL: FLOATING APARTMENTS

What to do when land is at a premium? If we’ve learned anything from Dubai, the answer is build out into the water. Dutch firm Waterstudio has designed the world’s first floating apartment structure in an effort to combat rising water levels. The project is directed by Koen Oithuis. On the whole, The Citadel will house 60 luxury apartments. Via curatedmag

DARCONS HEADQUARTERS

Mexican architects Arquitectura en Proceso have designed the headquarters for Darcons,
a construction company located in Delicias City, Chihuahua, Mexico. Via contemporist

SINGAPORE'S STUNNING DIGITAL CLOUD SKYSCRAPPER

This incredible pixelated skyscraper by Singapore-based Design Act was a finalist in a competition to design a pavilion for the World Expo 2010. Entitled “My Dream, Our Vision”, the project uses permutated cubes to generate a spectacular modular sculpture that perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Singapore as an efficient, dynamic, cosmopolitan, and forward-looking nation.

Simultaneously futuristic and traditional, the Singapore spirit 新 (xin, mandarin word for “new”) serves as a key metaphor for Design Act’s entry, which envisions Singapore as a progressive, re-inventive and innovative place.
The pavilion takes the form of an illuminated digital cloud hovering over an ever-changing “green” pasture. It invites you to enter a dark underground space with audio feeds alluding to the background services which serve the city, and catapults you into the bright and white digital cloud, where you are encouraged to post your dreams. Made of 3866 cubes of modular sizes with varying levels of transparency, the pavilion makes excellent use of natural light and is strategically sloped at the base to give visitors full view of the sights on display.

Via Inhabitat

METAMORFOSIS 1

Project: Metamorfosis 1, Renovation of a wooden house
Location: Tunquén,Casablanca, Chile
Architects: Renewal ( 2008) José Ulloa Davet, Delphine Ding
Original House (1990): Pedro Salas
Construction Supervision: Danio Ulloa Azocar
Engineering: Teknoingeniería Ltda
Carpenter: Pablo Montoya
Project year: 2007-2008
Photographs: José Ulloa Davet

Via Archdaily

VOLCANO STADIUM

Limited info given by the designer Jean-Marie Massaud:

Volcano Stadium
Chivas - Omnilife
Guadalajara, Mexique 2009

Stade de football
Arch.D.Pouzet

Inauguration prevue en 2009

Dimensions
Surface: 110,000 m2
Capacite: 42,250 places

Amenagements
340 suites (3500 places)
Chivas club (500 places)
2 magasins
50 buvettes
1 restaurant
1 coiffeur
1 musee
1 espace de jeux (pour 450 enfants)
1 parc de skateboard
1 parking (750 voitures)

Budget
100 M us $

Architecture technique: HOK+SVE
Structure: Luis Bozzo Estructuras SL

Via YankoDesign

BROKEN HOUSE

Architects: KWK PROMES, Located in Katowice, Poland. For more info, go to archdaily.com

THE YELLOW TREEHOUSE RESTAURANT

The Treehouse was designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects. For more info, go to contemporist.com

FUTURE HOTEL ROOM

Architects LAVA have designed a hotel room as part of a research project in collaboration with Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) in Stuttgart, Germany. The room includes anti-jet-lag lighting and a media display window. As part of a research collaboration with the Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) LAVA has designed the Future Hotel Showcase Room, a demonstration project that investigates the interfaces between architecture, technology and the human body. For more info, go to deezen.com