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From Der Spiegel:

Three young German architects are designing structures made completely out of living trees, including a pavilion for concerts in downtown Stuttgart. But designing the ultimate treehouse turns out to be trickier than one might expect.

How?

The basis of their work is always the same. First, the architects build a conventional support structure. Young, flexible trees are attached to the structure and bent into the desired shape. As the trees grow, they take on more and more of a load-bearing function. After a few years — and what Ludwig calls a “botanical certificate of fitness” inspection by a structural engineer — the support structure can be removed. At which point the roof and floors that have been inserted should be supported entirely by the trees

… a new blog hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Check out my friend Boris’s post on gaining fieldwork access to a public administration office in Stuttgart, Germany. Each field site has its own peculiarities. But they all have one thing in common: waiting.

October last year I was at the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart. There is a floor dedicated to Africa, and a tiny section of that floor has some items from Nigeria. I took some pictures of the items.

Who remembers/recognises the items in the pictures below?