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Post number 19813

Su — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 08:11:13 -0800

For a relatively low price, given the time and commitment, Richard Reames will grow a beautiful piece of sculpture, furniture, or even a whole room for you. Yes, I said grow.

By: agregoli

agregoli — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 08:55:02 -0800

I want one! I would love to live in a growing house, or at least have a gazebo or something of the sort. What a neat link.

By: TBoneMcCool

TBoneMcCool — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:12:21 -0800

You could decorate your growing house with great little sculptures of model cars crashing into a bonsai trees courtesy of CrashBonsai.

By: Su

Su — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:33:55 -0800

Crap. Looks like we killed the server. In the meantime, the Archive.org backup, while lacking many images, actually has some textual information I don't remember seeing in the live site. I didn't think of it at time of posting, but the Growing Homes site he links makes me think of cob houses, which you build using almost nothing but the on-site dirt, and hay. The nice thing is that it's totally free-form, so you can make the houses as refined or organic as you like. TBone: That'd be kind of sick. Recent CrashBonsai thread, for the forgetful.

By: TBoneMcCool

TBoneMcCool — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 09:54:48 -0800

the recent CrashBonsai thread for us forgetful types is here.

By: ginz

ginz — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 11:21:03 -0800

another link on Aborsmith This is an aerial photo of The Green Cathedral a living replica of Reims Cathedral. Marinus Boezem's work in poplars on the outskirts of Amsterdam The zoom out/in options to view the tree cathedral are neat.

By: Wet Spot

Wet Spot — Sun, 08 Sep 2002 19:29:08 -0800

A considerably better use of trees than this.

By: eyebeam

eyebeam — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 08:26:28 -0800

Fantastic link. This reminds me of the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy, particularly the work documented in his book "Wood". Also, you could combine this kind of thing with the earthships discussed recently, and come up with some really gorgeous-looking and very Viridian homes.

By: ukamikanasi

ukamikanasi — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 23:01:41 -0800

I highly recommend a visit to Bonfante Gardens, home of the original Circus Trees. Besides the cool trees, it is the most beautiful and well-designed theme park I've been to.