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Stonescape by Kengo Kuma

bamboo trees sprouted up around a topographical landscape of stone and water at this installation created by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma in Milan last month.

[homedesigning]

(via Vertical Gardens)

[rhamphotheca]

Ancient Giant Trees Petrified in Thailand

by Larry O’Hanlon

Fossil trees that approached the heights of today’s tallest redwoods have been found in northern Thailand. The longest petrified log measures 72.2 m (237 ft), which suggest the original tree towered to more than 100 m (330 ft) in a wet tropical forest some 800,000 years ago.

The trees appear to have been closely related to a species alive today called Koompassia elegans, which belongs to the same family as beans, peas and black locust trees, explained lead author of the study, Marc Philippe of France’s University of Lyon. That is to say, the ancient trees are not closely related to today’s tallest trees, which are the Eucalyptus (gum trees) of Australia and Sequoia (redwoods) of California. Both of those living trees can reach about 130 m (425 ft) in height.

Interestingly, there are no trees living today in Thailand that approach the size of the ancients. “Highest trees nowadays in Thailand are almost 60 m(200 ft),” wrote Philippe in response to my email query about his new paper coming out in the April issue of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. ”To my knowledge the highest tree yet recorded in Thailand is a Krabak tree, belonging to the Dipterocarpaceae (‘tropical oaks’), 58 m(190 ft) tall.”…

(read more: Our Amazing Planet)

(images:  Marc Philippe, Université de Lyon)

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We just pulled one of our prize pieces—a nearly nine-foot round of fallen Sequoia—out of storage after many years. It’s sitting at the Discovery Center in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, paying proper homage to these ancient giants.

Vaguely related: imagine how much more impressive The Swiss Family Robinson would’ve been if they had these behemoths to deal with. —MN

[hungry4danish]

Berlin at night. East/West divide still visible due to different lightbulbs. Amazing.

[gamechangershow]

Now THAT’S How You Avoid A Tag [Click to watch]

Easiest way: not playing baseball.

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WOW.

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R0019613 (via modulie)

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MURTURM Nature Observation Tower at the Mur river in Austria.

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View this on the map

[marcararc]

Freeway Park Seattle

by Lawrence Halprin & Associates, 1976

an incredibly immersive integration of landscape, urbanism, infrastructure, and architecture

photos by markcareaga, December 2008

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Map

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Mountain Road in Norway (by Martin Ystenes)

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[maderadearquitecto]

Nests / Porky Hefer of animal farm

[artpartner]

Russian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale by i-city Skolkovo.

[wild-earth]

Never a truer thing said.

[cjwho]

Casa Tataui