Solar Waterfall for the 2016 Olympic Games

Designed by the Swiss architecture firm RAFAA for the International Architecture Competition for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Named the Solar City Tower, the building is adorned with solar panels that can be used to help make Rio’s Olympics the first ever zero-carbon games. (more…)

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Family House In UTRIAI

Some great pics of the lovely Family House In UTRIAI. The rectangular-prism house features some amazing interior, in which the architecture of the house and the design was done by Natkevicius. (more…)

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House in Matsubara

Located in a dense residential area in the suburbs of Tokyo is the House in Matsubara, which was designed by Ken’ichi Otani Architects. It’s design is very elegant and is definitely not your average house on the corner!

( via worldarchitecturenews)

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Table Built Out of Legos

22,742 pieces of Lego make a boardroom table for a new advertising agency in Dublin. The Lego table design was built by the architects of ABGC. Check out the video!

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KRE House

The KRE House was designed in the posh Shirokane area of Tokyo by architect Takuya Tsuchida. The brief for this house was: “I want a 9 car garage and be able to enjoy viewing one of them in the living room.” The owner of a Lamborghini Countach Anniversary edition, Tsuchida, designed a house such as that. There is also a tall tree, which was placed in the living room.

(via todayandtomorrow)

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Largest House Replica Built From Playing Cards

American architect Bryan Berg brakes his old Guinness World Record by building the largest house of free-standing playing cards. This huge replica of the Venetian Macau hotel was built using 218,792 cards, which is 4,051 deck of cards. Berg took 44 days to complete the 10 feet tall, 33 feet long model.

“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.

(via popfi)

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The Stacked House

The Stacked House was built in Germany by architects Herzog & de Meuron for the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, and just by looking at the photos and the title you can see that they have built houses and stacked them on top of each other. This design defines the meaning of architecture. Straight amazing!

(via weblogsurf, toxel)

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Lava, “Tower Skin” Building

Architects from Lava laboratory currently developed the “Tower Skin” to create a more simple and economic method to transform the old buildings in Sydney. The skin they used to construct this building is a transparent cocoon which acts as a high performance micro climate. The skin generates energy with photovoltaic cells, collects rain water, improves day lighting and uses available convective energy to power the towers’ ventilation requirements.

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Augmented Reality: Domestic Robocop

Video done by Keiichi Matsuda.

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ILUMA Building In Singapore

An amazing architectural concept! This is the ILUMA shopping mall building in Singapore. The whole building lights up and shows graphical images.

“The screen facade is formed by a tessellated pattern made up by physical plastic bodies. A regular matrix of fluorescent lamps is superimposed onto (into) this idiosyncratic physical structure. That produces a display screen, which however is vividly distorted by the strong geometry of the individual light fixture and which is peppered by the regular perforations of the physical screen as well as by variations in the arrangements of the light fixture objects.

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