Restaurant on a tree !
Recently a very unusual place was built near Auckland: the cafe restaurant, which resides on a huge redwood tree (the tree itself is over 40 meters high and 1.7 meters in diameter) at a 10 meters height from the ground.
Meet the Yellow TreeHouse:
18 people can be seated in the threehouse together with all the neccesary waiting staff. It has a bar and you can see the open meadow and a stream while enjoying your meal. Kitchend and toilets are at the ground level.
The entrance to the treehouse is via the 60 meters wooden walkway, which blends organically with the environment and “flows” into the treehouse. The architectural concept of this whole project is very interesting and in my opinion is a bood blend of childness, fairytales and green-structures building. The whole restaurant looks if not as a part of nature then as a very close to it.
The yellow treehouse project manager is Tracey Collins, and the whole idea was to source all products and services through Yellow Paes listings. The restaurant is completed and open, but it is all booked for the near future, so if you absolutely must visit it – you will have to wait.
You can visit the yellow trehouse’s project site at:
http://www.yellowtreehouse.co.nz/
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February 7th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Great post and nice photos, thanks Greg! What a fantastic design. It would work very well on some of New Zealand’s so-called “Great Walks”, wouldn’t it?—lol
February 8th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Thank you Markus!
but it would be to small to handle them!
Yes, I guess many tourists would go for a great walk with such a restaurant somewhere in the middle of the track