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Two years ago I told you about Bellavista, the stunning treehouse community in Costa Rica’s forests that looks like the Ewoks’ village in Endor. They just upgraded it with 7.2mbps 3G access, and now they run 100 per cent on solar power. More »
This isn’t just a treehouse. This is an actual man’s home, in Portland, Oregon. More »
I never had a treehouse even though we had this fig tree that would’ve been perfect, so Design Blog’s absolutely fantastical treehouses make me both resent my childhood and wish I was Peter Pan.
So modern treehouses aren’t new, but the designers of this project in New Zealand have crafted something that blends fantastically with its host redwood tree. The fungus or chrysalis-shaped building—take your aesthetic pick—will be a smallish restaurant built by, of all people, the NZ Yellow Pages. It’s currently under construction from laminated pine, plantation poplar and redwood thirty feet up a giant tree in a place north of Auckland. Getting there’ll be fun when it’s finished though: entry is via a 120-foot high treetop walkway. [Contemporist via Born Rich] galleryPost('yellowtreehouse', 3, '');
