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An Okinawa, Japan Treehouse Restaurant
January 31, 2011, 10:46 pm
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An Okinawa, Japan Treehouse/Restaurant

 

Its not so tiny, but it certainly has treehouse appeal. Apparently, the trunk-structure is sculpted concrete (very realistic looking!), and patrons must take an elevator to arrive at the main dining building above.

-Derek “Deek” Diedricksen


An Okinawa, Japan Treehouse/Restaurant
January 31, 2011, 10:42 pm
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Its not so tiny, but it certainly has treehouse appeal. Apparently, the trunk-structure is sculpted concrete (very realistic looking!), and patrons must take an elevator to arrive at the main dining building above.

-Derek “Deek” Diedricksen



Jay Nelson’s Art Shelters…. part dwelling/part artwork (A DOME-HOUSE CAR!?)
January 31, 2011, 8:56 am
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First, thanks to Kent “Big K” Griswold for posting on my “Redneck Windows For Tiny Houses” Video- you can check it out on TINY HOUSE BLOG. Also. I rarely go a day without posting but yesterday, from 6am to 9pm I was wrapped up in another “Tiny Yellow House” TV shoot for Make Magazine- Carpentry, Car-crushin, n’ Karate- all in one episode! AND just got the brand new issue of Readymade Magazine in the mail, and Mimi Zeiger (who will be on our panel of teachers for this summer’s Relaxshacks.com 2011 Hands-On, Tiny House/Shelter Building Workshop- kidcedar@gmail.com if interested) had as great article on a man by the name of Jay Nelson.
Jay’s a trained artist, but has often dabbled in shelter-structures as art- as you can see in this little gallery I pieced together below…

-Derek “Deek” Diedricksen