The Holiday Inn Key Card Hotel, located in Manhattan, New York, was made from 200,000 plastic key cards “by world record-holding ‘card-stacker’ Bryan Berg.” It opens on September 21st to the public. Click here for first picture in gallery.
‘The Key Card Hotel is a fun and interactive way to showcase the changes happening at our hotels and is the only structure of its kind to ever be created by a hotel brand.’
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Designed by Leandro Erlich, the “Shattering Door” may look broken, but it’s actually a functional installation. It’s currently on display at the Luciana Brito gallery in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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It’s not everyday that you see a tree house that’s shaped like a wooden sphere, much less a regular one, but we’ve got six unusual examples for your viewing enjoyment. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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From afar, it may look like a regular building, but it’s actually a glass parking structure, located in Moscow, that “can cram between 22 and 54 cars, depending on how many floors it’s configured with.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Unlike VW’s staggeringly large take on the same concept, this little piece of urban engineering takes up a mere 100 square meters.
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If “less is more” is your personal motto, these unusual hotels just may be for you. Whether it be a sewer pipe conversion or the massive sand castle above, there’s plenty of strange designs you don’t see everyday. Click here for more.
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The Sears Tower in Chicago has unveiled a new attraction on the 103rd floor: retractable glass balconies that are suspended 1,353-feet in the air and protrude 4-feet. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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It’s not everyday that you see a bridge capable of rolling up when not in use, but this gallery of futuristic structures includes that and more. Continue reading for a video of the rolling bridge. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Construction is set to begin tomorrow on the world’s first spaceport, named Spaceport America. The company “expect it to be the major commercial interest and anchor tenant – just as American Airlines is the primary carrier at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Virgin Galactic will base their operations at Spaceport America.” Continue reading for a video of the education launch. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Industrial buildings are often considered boring and drab on the outside, with the exception of these creative examples. To start, we have Poland’s “crooked house”, located in a shopping center. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, this fully solar-powered stadium is set to be completed later this year, in time for the 2009 World Games. It’s “clad in 8,844 solar panels that illuminate the track and field with 3,300 lux.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
The stadium also integrates additional green features such as permeable paving and the extensive use of reusable, domestically made materials.
[via Inhabitat]