Month: August 2009

Living willow architecture

Living willow architecture

More arboreal architectural awesomeness, here brought to you by German architect Marcel Kalberer and the Sanfte Strukturen group. The first structure, called the Auerworld Palace, was constructed in 1998, in Aeurstedt, Germany, and was their first “willow palace” project, taking the efforts of 300 volunteers to build. Kalberer has gone on to… er… plant 70 […]

Giant garbage bag kite

Giant garbage bag kite

Jesse Dill writes about the Garbasail kite on Build/Make/Craft/Bake: I first found out about Garbasails when they were featured as Urban Dictionary’s word of the day. A few curious clicks later, I was completely hooked on the idea. It’s a simple formula: trash bags + duct tape + a lot of rope = one very […]

Retro Fabulous Home Inspiration

I’m currently in the process of sprucing up my apartment with artwork and knick-nacks now that we finally got most of the large furniture pieces in our place together after almost 3 years in our pad. For constant inspiration, I look to Victoria’s blog sfgirbythebay and I adore her recent post on retro fabulous. This […]