Architect Ole Scheeren designs a floating cinema for the final day of the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi Festival in Thailand.

The Homework Desk, by Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc, a desk with an expandable accordion filing compartment that reveals itself upon the turning of a small golden crank.

French architect Stephane Malka proposes a fluctuating facade of recycled wooden shipping pallets for a student dormitory in Paris.

The new spinning bar top at the Carousel Bar in New Orleans by Bastille Metal Works.

Norwegian designers create a foldable ice fishing hut for one, with walls made of ice.

'Street Furniture,' a series of guerilla public seating areas created by wrapping yellow drainage pipes around existing urban infrastructure.

A mushroom farm inside a Seattle storefront repurposes the city's discarded coffee grounds as compost and teaches locals about urban agriculture.

Designer Jihyun Ryou invents analog kitchen contraptions that teach users how to preserve food without a refrigerator.

University of Michigan graduate architecture students give a vacant Detroit storefront a metallic facelift.

Architect John Locke repurposes Manhattan's largely obsolete phone booths into miniature public libraries.

Sweden's Ice Hotel enlists French artist and designer Antoine Weygand and architect Roland Toupet to design and build room 339, also known as 'Diamond Genesis'.

At Millennium Park, Chicago, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, also known as 'The Bean,' comes to life with an interactive light show called Luminous Field by LuftWerk, the creative vision of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.

For one day, a pop-up aluminum foundry in a small Los Angeles backyard turns scrap metal into designed objects. By Tada Ryvola and Michael Sandstrom of United Environment Architecture.

The Modern Architecture Game is a cheeky trivia game made by architects celebrating some of the most influential buildings of our time. From amsterdam-based Next architects.

A gabled house cantilevered over the edge of a 7-story building, the latest from Korean artist Do Ho Suh.

Kazakhstan's gorgeous new subway system, 23 years in the making.

Konstantin Achkov's 'Puzzles for Living,' a series of chairs made of lasercut beechwood parts and assembled like a three-dimensional puzzle.

The Inflativerse, a mobile planetarium developed at the University of Nottingham designed to inflate in 5 minutes and house realistic light projections of the night sky.

Alexander Chen's 'Conductor' transforms the iconic New York subway map into a real-time, interactive string instrument.

A 'greenhouse' in London replaces traditional plants with clear bags of algae into which visitors can blow carbon dioxide (and tweet about it!).

Landscape Fence by Heri&Salli, a free-form steel 'cocoon' wrapped around a swimming pool in Austria.

'Cicada' is an organic, cocoon-like spatial intervention in the heart of industrial Taipei.

The Kai Table by Naoki Hirakoso and Takmitsu Kitahara appears to be a smooth wooden tabletop but unfolds to reveal numerous hidden storage compartments.

A hotel of caravans and huts arranged inside a vacuum-cleaner factory shares a piece of Berlin counterculture (Schrebergartenglück) with travelers.

A Dutch 'furniture factory' run by a man and his 3 young sons explores child labor laws as an avenue for art.

A new Google Maps hack allows you to explore Streetview through a trippy stereoscopic lens.

Plans to construct the second-largest structure ever built by man in efforts to detect subatomic particles sent from the far reaches of outer space. It is to be anchored 3,200 feet beneath the Mediterranean.

The picNYC table brings picnicking indoors with a tabletop of grass, soil and stones.

A Louisiana Tech grad student Brandon Mosley proposes rehabilitating a mining ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma with a subterranean museum.

A former malt factory in Berlin will become an expansive aquaponic rooftop farm in 2013.

Esteemed designer Valentino houses his archives in a 10,000 square meter, white-walled virtual museum, now available for download.

Artist John Baldessari has plastered a fake $100,000 bill on a billboard along the High Line.

A theater in Genoa, Italy turned to Ikea to furnish the sets of two operas.

Artist Luis Urculo cleverly constructs models of well-known buildings using ordinary household items.

Stunning photos of hydro power projects around the world.

A set of 3D-printed buildings based on the virtual urbanisms of Sim City 2000.

Celebrated German architect, Jürgen Mayer H.'s extensive collection of security envelopes is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jing Zhang’s ongoing Lettering project is a typographical tour-de-force that takes each letter from the alphabet and transforms it into a complex, inhabitable structure.

Lebbeus Woods finds a 1970s pattern book for constructing the old city of Prague that reveals the marvels of architectural visualization before the age of computers.

The 360 house by Subarquitectura takes an extreme curving shape, coiling like a snake to maximize views of the mountains in Galapagar outside Madrid.

Artist Yaron Steinburg re-imagines his own brain as a miniature city made out of cardboard houses, flickering lights, and an electric toy train.

A fragrance manufacturing laboratory, Sakae Aromatic, in Japan uses pictographic signs on each factory door to reveal the fragrance being produced inside. Designed by aoydesign.

Photosynth is an app that allows you to stitch together photos taken on your iPhone to create three-dimensional panoramas and outrageously shaped photo collages.

Huski Lodge, an Australian ski lodge designed by Elenberg Fraser.