Time for the next Kickstart this! list. Check out what sorts of crowdfunding projects made it onto the July and August round-up for Archinect's curated Kickstarter page.

BIG's STEAM RING GENERATOR FOR WORLD'S CLEANEST POWER PLANT

Bjarke Ingels and Jakob Lange set up a Kickstarter to build the final prototype of BIG's steam ring generator, as part of the upcoming power plant in Copenhagen that is slated for completion in 2017. Once built, the generator will puff out a steam ring for every ton of CO2 burned in the plant.

Related: Archinect Sessions 14: His bjark is BIGger than his bjite – A chat with Bjarke Ingels at the opening of BIG's "Hot to Cold" exhibition

49 Cities: 3rd Edition deluxe reprint

Out of print since 2010, WorkAC principals Dan Wood and Amale Andraos are bringing back "49 Cities", a unique reference guide that "embrace[s] scale and common sense combined with delirious imagination as tools to reinvent the city." The new edition includes interviews between Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Joseph Grima, and Michael Webb and essays by FAT Architecture's Sam Jacob, Chip Lord of Ant Farm, and Yona Friedman.

300 mi. Burning Man wall in Bay Area

Comedy troupe Cultivated Wit initiated a campaign proposing that a 300-mile wall be built around the entire Bay Area to shut Burning Man festival-goers out of San Francisco for good. The group has gathered an astonishing $4 billion out of their $7 billion goal. (Yes, the campaign is only a joke.)

Realise Minas Tirith

On the other hand, a group of UK-based diehard Tolkien fans -- who are also architects -- set up an Indiegogo campaign to realize the fictional city of Minas Tirith from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. With 44 days to go, the fund has gathered £77,659 ($121,052) out of £1.85 billion.

Bring Ai Weiwei's Tree sculptures to London's Royal Academy

Installing Ai Weiwei's "Tree" sculptures would be the cherry on top for the Royal Academy's upcoming Ai Weiwei exhibition starting in September — the first institutional major survey of the artist's work in Britain. Funds would support the construction of the sculptures in the RA's Annenberg Courtyard.

Improbable Habitat - East Coast vs West Coast

Montreal-based architect/photographer Carl-Antonyn Dufault is working on his next installment of photomontages that smoothly juxtapose the residential architecture of different cities into one photo. Following his Paris-Montreal set (pictured above is one of his photos), Dufault plans on creating montages for Boston with San Francisco and New York with Los Angeles.

Elevate: Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Structures With Water & Solar

The Elevate unit was originally conceived as an off-grid solution for the remote areas of Oahu's North Shore, but it can also be adopted to various types of commercial and residential applications to help ease Hawaii's housing shortage.