11/25/2008

Banyan Treehouse

Although this towering concrete treehouse isn’t really green, (no matter what grows on top of it), you must be awestruck by its sheer craziness. I thought it worth a post, just for the picture. The Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan is a life-size rendition of a banyan tree, also known as gajumaru. The aptly-named Banyan Town shopping center near the entrance of Onoyama Park features a twenty foot tall tree with a pan-Asian restaurant nestled amid its branches. Accessible by a spiral staircase around back and an in-trunk elevator, the restaurant specializes in locally grown and organic harvested foods fresh from the farm.

(source: inhabitat.com)

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