Taking 4 years to complete, Burden’s kinetic sculpture Metropolis II is a mesmerizing cityscape where 1,100 toy cars blaze down 18 lanes of freeways in endless loops.

The guys at cartonLAB (part of Moho Architects in Murcia, Spain) create everything from toys and furniture to store displays and DJ stands from cardboard.

The String Tunnel is an episodic, three-dimensional spatial sequence constructed entirely out of nylon thread connecting MIT’s Infinite Corridor to the Kendall T Station.

Lea Ceramiche and Patrick Norguet - for those Designer's Days 2011 presents LINES and WAVES - two innovative products that can reproduce a decorative element on a ceramic support ...

Fiori, a flower boutique in Kiev, Ukraine. All made of wood.

An outdoor elevator by Spanish architects Vaumm in Errenteria, northern Spain.

Studio O+A designed the new AOL offices in Palo Alto. They had already did a great job for the Facebook offices, but AOL's are even better!

Lucky drops by Atelier Tekuto.

Beautiful museum extension in a ruined castle in Halle, Germany, by Spanish studio Niento Sobejano Arquitectos.

Like a traditional Granada house, this studio is closed to the street, open to the sky and garden. A wall pierced with narrow, regular openings and a single opening on the upper part, by spanish architect Elisa Valero.

+Pool is a giant, floating pool that will open in the East River of NYC next year.

VIDEOEnjoy silence. Light Lines: a new site specific art installation by artists/architects Jay Atherton and Cy Keener. Nine mirrors set in the nearby landscape in order to direct sunlight into the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts.

The No Picnic product design offices in Stockholm, Sweden, by architects Elding Oscarson.

Discover the library of the future in Chicago. The University of Chicago Mansueto Library by Helmut Jahn. An impressive new technology that will surprise you!!

This Tokyo nightclub's rooms are designed to play to the senses, from 'sticky' to 'sweet' to 'pillowy'.

Tango from Corbett Lighting is made from hand-crafted iron formed into a 30-inch cut-out orb that produces a striking display of warm light.

A church located in Cologne was converted into a family home with 410 square meters of living space by Mathias Romm Architects.

Martha Schwartz Partners designed an incredible garden for the 2011 International Horticultural Exhibition in Xi’an, China.

East Germany's Wunderland Kalkar - incredible adaptive reuse project that transformed a never before used nuclear reactor into an amusement park!

VIDEOPOP-UPchitecture. Great videos of future visions of our cities from PLAYstudio.

The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown by Charles Correa Associates.

Buck & Breck, Berlin, a very nice bar in Berlin with a minimalist concept.

An interactive panorama by Panowerk from inside the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. Architecture is fantastic and the historic cars are even better. Mesmerizing.

Apomechanes is an intensive computational design studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication.

Parasite Office designed by Za Bor Architects.

Four Sport Scenarios by Giancarlo Mazzanti + Felipe Mesa (Plan:b) mixes a semi-covered public space with the sports areas and gardens.

BlobV83 is a mobile housing unit by dmvA Architecten.

'Truffle' a cave home by the Madrid based architect agency Ensamble Studio, and with some help from Paulina the calf.

Here is the first look at Zaha Hadid Architects latest project, Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport in Scotland. Slated to officially open later this week the museum has 7,000 sqm of exhibition area.

Esther Dormer and Lisa Dagnal, patron and decorator, have turned Ms. Dormer's Bulger, Pa., farm into a series of atmospheric lounges for family and friends.

Take a look at some video game recreations of Fallingwater on Frank Lloyd Wright's 144th birthday.

Centro Niemeyer, a new cultural centre for the port city of Avilés in northern Spain, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.

French artist Anne-Laure Maison highlights the lack of communication between office workers with this artwork in a French company offices.

Steve Jobs announces the plans for Apple's new 'Spaceship' headquarters in Cupertino, due to be completed in 2015.

Section 2 of New York City's High Line, designed by James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opened today! The new section of the elevated park includes a thicket, wildflower field, lawn, and more.

'Grandi Bianchi' by Bernard Dubois and La Ville Rayée Architects for Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris.

Lumen Urbs projects pictograms and imagery onto a blank miniature city to bring life to four areas of urban activity. By Johannes Becker and Philipp Nottelmann.

'I Wish You Hadn't Asked' by The Glue Society for the second Sculpture By The Sea festival in Aarhus, Denmark. A house where it rains inside!

Customized green walls for fresh interiors by Greenworks Studio.

A sleek & contemporary renovation: 'Fifth Avenue apartment' by NYC architects Thomas Phifer and Partners.

Kielder observatory in England by Charles Barclay.

Four of SOFTlab's beautiful installations. Just one of the many mediums these amazing designers work in.

Awesome basement renovation of a row home in Georgetown, DC. Really sleek interior with an efficient use of space. All you need in just one space! Not to mention the sweet custom light wall in the back.

New York architects SO-IL have designed these coloured acrylic display cases in geometric shapes to showcase pieces by German porcelain brand Meissen in an exhibition at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.

FriendsWithYou and AOL announce the opening of 'Rainbow City' the forty piece environmental installation in New York City, celebrating Section 2 of the High Line. Join us Wed June 8, 11:00am to 10pm.

The A5 MAGAZINE's latest issue - HOME: 45 postcards + 2 posters + a booklet, packed in a must have box.

Incredible sculptures by Tobias Putrih.

Apartement 1511 : a stylish renovation by Brazilian architects Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato.

'House in Prado' in Marseille - France by Maurice Padovani interior designer.

Lookout Point by Swiss architects HHF, the first of eight structures to be completed for the Mexican pilgrimage la Ruta del Peregrino.

IBM Executive Briefing Center - Rome, Italy. Designed by Iosa Ghini Architects Associated.

GR230, a service station along Route 230 in northern Japan, by Code architects.

Coordination Asia's Shanghai Office n the former headquarters of the Shanghai Glass Company.

Designed by Javier Artadi, this house is located in Le Encantada, a suburb on the Lima shoreline.

A look inside the home of Bruno Mendes and Amy Muir, who make up Melbourne based architecture firm Muir Mendes.

The opening of the completely renovated Maritime Museum conceived by DOK Architects is planned for the end of September 2011. The recently delivered glazed roof was designed by the Brussels office of Ney & Partners.

Orokonui Ecosanctuary building in New Zealand by Architectural Ecology.

The newly opened Shanghai Museum of Glass.

A roundup of Sebastien Wierinck's amazing tubular constructions for public spaces and restaurants in Europe and Asia.

Gernot Riether's design is a series of glowing spherical enclosures sited within the hidden courtyards of the city’s distinctive French Quarter.

'Canopée' by french designer Frédéric Ruyant is a wooden observatory to enjoy nature from above.

'Open Space' by Duravit is a a retractable shower cabin that folds against the wall when not in use.

Beautiful 'Baixa Pombalino' building renovation by Portuguese architect José Adrião.

Damilano Studio Architects' Gazoline Petrol Station in Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy.

A Plea for Modernism. This video by Evan Mather issues a plea to save some of New Orleans critical pieces of modern architecture, specifically the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School.

The Felix Nussbaum Museum is an extension of the Cultural History Museum in Osnabrück, and dedicated to the work of Felix Nussbaum. Designed by Daniel Libeskind.

Based in the Netherlands, the architectural design office Qupix has realized some stunning stands for Jan Snel! This is the Rockwool stand.

'Teqa' is a newly opened Tequileria (Yes. Tequileria. Our favorite new word!) in the Murray Hill area of Manhattan.

The White House on the Scottish Isle of Coll is a ruin that has been converted into a modern, eco-friendly home by William Tunnell Architecture.

The Cool Hunter rounds up beautifully designed public car parking spaces.

Collage work by radical architecture and design group Superstudio in Italy. From the 1972 MoMA exhibit 'Italy: The New Domestic Landscape'.

Bruxe Tiny Little Chairs X Consult dev contest for designers to submit their chair designs to have them made into a silver limited pendant.

The new Hepworth Wakefield Gallery by David Chipperfields Architects.

'The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil' Bedroom Interior from Karako architectural workshop by A Novikov and U Skarenko.

Beautiful ~ from patkau architects: winnipeg skating shelters

NY-based Steven Holl Architects just completed the new Surf Museum in Biarritz. Set to open in June, the museum is a delicate glowing box resting between stone waves.

Japanese architect Takashi Yamaguchi designed this temple, dedicated to our maternal ancestors, that evokes the experience of being in the womb.

Ingo Maurer's red hot installation 'Ablaze – sentimento (s)travolgente' in Milan last month at the Università Degli Studi.

A ruined paper factory in Taipei City transforms into a green paradise thanks to Interbreeding Field.

Upstairs, the new Mansueto library in Chicago is a dome covered in 700 panels of glass, but the real deal is downstairs, in an underground storage holding 3.5 million volumes, accessed by robotic cranes! By architect Helmut Jahn.

Kumagai House – somewhere in between architecture and landscape. In a Japanese residential district, Kumagai House, advances a new form of housing.

Dominic Wilcox removes the color from the last remaining office in the soon to be demolished St Philips Building. One layer of reality is taken away as the room awaits the end.

HI MATIC will respond to a current need: a new type of hotel, practical and accessible, mixing codes of an urban hotel and country side bed and breakfast, with strong ecological values. By designers Matali Crasset, Patrick Elouarghi and Philippe Chapelet.

French artist, Alex Boil created these supernatural images with light installations. The series is called UFO and was created with Mathilde Oriol.

Corelam is a corrugated plywood with exciting new possibilities for uses in architecture and design.

Splash House- Parsons Design Workshop 2011 design for new pool pavilions to be built by the students this summer.

We met up with UNStudio-founder Ben van Berkel this week to talk about the opening of his New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion which opened last night.

Kids -- future urban planners? -- play with 'city building blocks' at the New Museum Education Department and Rockwell Group’s Imagination Playground during the Festival of Ideas in NYC.

Lumenscape from Urbana is a public art project commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. It is an investigation of the inclusion of touch and desire, as relevant, attainable qualities into the built environment.

Neutelings Riedijk Architects just opened the new MAS Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Here are images from a helicopter tour!

The Euthanasia Coaster, by Julijonas Urbanos, is designed to take the life of a human being 'with elegance and euphoria'.

Designed by Andrew Simpson Architects, the Scape House twists in all its geometric wonder towards the natural landscape.

From cinema to architecture, the switch was not traumatic for Marcio Kogan (StudioMK27). He is still inspired by lights, atmospheres, spaces. This is Punta House, his latest, scenographic villa in Uruguay.

Pave, an incredible bicycle shop in Barcelona designed by architect Joan Sandoval.

ScanLAB Projects have been investigating the capture of mists with a 3D laser scanner. Here are the remarkable results !

The Netherlands Institute of Architecture created these postal stamps that, when held up in front of your webcam, display 3D models of five unbuilt works by Dutch architecture offices.

Glass Farmhouse by Olson Kundig in Northeast Oregon.

Tipos Infames, a coffee and book shop in Madrid by MYCC.

'Corner Light' by Peter Bristol for Established & Sons.

WHOISIN designed and made Plastic Heart, an installation made from 200 rolls of 'no noise' packing tape, for a visual and spatial experience for visitors at the 2010 Norberg Festival.

Modern Minis: Tiny, concrete, modern architecture collections by designer/architect Chelsea Raine of Raine Designs.

This angular and unique house, set in the Danish woods, belongs to a family of four. Shared with us by thedesignerpad.

Mieke Meijer invented NewspaperWood, a wood made from laminated newspapers. Check out product design made from the material, shown at Milan Design Week!

Experience a day in the life of Origo Branding Company. New environment video up with some great cinematography highlighting a cool office and employee interaction.

Patterns from cityscape illustrator Laura Barnard.

Wurm + Wurm's Oberkirch Media Centre has some stunning staircases!

The newly opened Metropol Parason [see post #35776] in Seville is officially the largest wooden structure in the world.

Yellow Brick House from Vilnius, Lithuania from G. Natkevicius & Partners.

AYouTube theater - plug in your phone, and you've got a giant screen!

Mobile libraries are not a new concept - but this converted shipping container that can transform to double its size certainly is! BiebBus by Dutch architect Jord den Hollander.

Une Architecture, an exhibition of the work of Zaha Hadid Architects at the Mobile Art Pavilion.

A 50-foot model of Manhattan will open this weekend in NYC - with five different architects' award winning visions of the future build onto it! A project with Audi and Stylepark as part of the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City.

Stunning house in Bordeaux, 'Big Black Box' by FABRE/deMARIEN Architects.

Fun MVRDV converted a former mustard factory into an amazing office for a French telecom company, Teletech Dijon.

Joost van Bleiswijk and Alrik Koudenburg have created an incredible cardboard office for Dutch advertising agency Nothing.

Seoul is now home to Paul Smith's latest flagship store. The futuristic architecture is a new change for the classic Brit designer. Are we witnessing a possible design shift in the well established brand?

Vault room from in Bruges, Belgium.

A selection of NYC building lobby art installations worth checking out.

'Salon du Fromage' shop and restaurant in Paris by Japanese architect Kotaro Horiuchi.

The multi-hued Kuggen Building (kuggen means cog) in Sweden features a rotating photovoltaic sun screen on the top floor designed by Winngårdh Arkitektkontor.

The Hinterland House from Morris Partnership Architecture in rural Australia.

Richly colored, often abstract, unusual photography by Paris-based Sherif Elhage, whose work is made all the more impressive given that none of the images are manipulated in Photoshop.

Confusions are a series of fold/unfold candle holders made from aluminum printing plates, by water-jet cutting. You can find Confusions in the Magna Plaza, Amsterdam with Tuttobene Reprise at www.salon1.org

Inhabitat take a first look inside Foster + Partner's ambitious carbon-neutral Masdar City!

Dynamic scenography designed for the program Viva La Crisi from dotdotdot, interdisciplinary design studio based in Milan.Using projection-mapping to create a stage-set for an Italian talking-head TV program.

Incredible bike storage in a former bank safe in Portland's historic Spalding Building.

SOILED UN/EARTHED is an semiannual event that transforms the architecture zine SOILED into a participatory live experience. Visitors were invited to excavate local honey!

British architecture practice SHH have just completed this office interiors scheme for an international shipping company in the West End of London.

Negozio Olivetti's stunning Venice showroom and store by architect Carlo Scarpa.

Masuya, awesome lawnmower store by architect Akihisa Hirata.

Paris 26 Gigapixels is a stitching of 2346 single photos showing a very high-resolution panoramic view of the French capital (354159x75570 px). Dive in the image and visit Paris like never before!

The latest Sugamo Shinkin Bank designed by Emannuelle Moureaux Architecture and Design in Shimura.

The Bamboo Forest House, by ROEWUarchitecture, is surrounded by a protective shell made from Bamboo.

Van Alen Institute, in NYC, has opened a pop-up bookstore for architecture and design books. It’s also a public reading room - designed by LOT-EK!

Aarhus School of Architecture undergrads in collaboration with the Roskilde Music Festival. Entitled Vintergatan, the installation is a modular exercise of different sized triangles combined to create varied spaces.

Open House 2011 by Droog, led by Diller Scofidio + Renfro offers a "future suburbia" through self-inventiveness and collaborative consumption.

Gorgeous kitchen in Brooklyn's Clock Tower by Minimal.

The Barin Ski Resort in Iran was inspired by igloos and its topographic layer-like features are even reflected in the built-in custom furniture.

The Center for Digital Art and Contemporary Music designed by architect Manual Gautrand opened its doors to the Parisian public last month.

Tokyo French Embassy Gardens by French landscape office Sempervirens, in Tokyo, Japan.

A new book showcases architectural photographer Julius Shulman's images of a blossoming 1950s and 60s Los Angeles.

Expocamacol 2010, a temporary pavilion in Medellín, Colombia built from sustainable materials for a construction expo by Plan:b arquitectos.

Serie Architect's installation at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Monsoon Club, opens in Washington D.C. for the Maximum India Festival.

This medical marijuana dispensary located in San Francisco, designed by Sand Studios, has won an AIA-SF 2011 design award.