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Bryan Berg is a master cardstacker who can turn just about anything into a house of cards. Berg has won several Guiness World Records for his delicate creations which have been on display across the world.
In this photo Berg used business cards from employees of Starr Companies to build a city Hall, stadium, factory, and ship.
Berg's story was featured on the "CBS Evening News" July 1, 2015.
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This 2004 replica of Cinderella's Castle at Walt Disney World earned Berg the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards.
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Berg and other cardstackers use this type of grid technique to build solid foundations for their projects.
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To help celebrate the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Berg took three weeks to create the Olympic Village out of playing cards.
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In September 2009, Berg partnered up with Holiday Inn. The result was a replica of a hotel room made entirely of, you guessed it, hotel keycards.
While it was originally exhibited in New York City and Washington, D.C., it is now permanently housed at Kemmons Wilson Gallery in Memphis.
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What goes up, must come down. Berg uses a leafblower to dismantle some of his works.
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How many of these New York City buildings can you name?
It took Berg two weeks to stack the city's skyline. The project was created to help raise money for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
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This structure won Berg the Guinness World Record for Tallest House of Freestanding Playing cards.
It stands nearly 26 feet tall and required 1100 decks of cards to build. The tower was constructed in Dallas, Texas in 2007 .
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In 2010, Berg created replicas of ancient landmarks in Istanbul.
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Artist Bryan Berg sits on a ladder in front of his sculpture of the famous Las Vegas sign made from playing cards and poker chips at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Thursday, July 27, 2006. Berg used 500 decks of cards and 1,800 poker chips to create the sign, which hangs near the entrance of the World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel & Casino.
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In 2010, Berg built this free-standing, model of the Venetian Casino in Macau. The project took 44 days, 219,000 cards (4,000 decks), and set a new Guinness World Record.
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And, as he's done before, he took down the card version of the Venetian Casino in Macau with a leaf blower.