DISQUS

TreeHugger.com: Treehouse by Tham & Videgard Hansson is Almost Invisible

  • Rockfish · 10 months ago

    Aside from being a bit clever and quite literally a "tree-hugger" in what way is this even remotely related to sustainability? If I mirrored a Hummer would I get my project posted, too?

  • TBT · 10 months ago

    Wow, you know what will be even more spetacular when this is built, all the pretty colored bird corpses that will be collecting under the tree. Great Idea! How can something like this be on the site, when only days before you were advertising reflective stickers to help curb the number of bird strike deaths from reflective surfaces like glass? I guess this idea is "eco-friendly" so it doesn't count!

  • TC · 10 months ago

    Cool idea. What about a barrel or even sphere shaped volume - if you can pay the price?

    Occupied disco ball in the forest...



    Good comment about the ladder. The question remains how to get in and out.

    Another one would be about rainwater, dust and nature's variety of other droppings. Unless well maintained that box will look less appealing and disappearing.

    And I am a little worried about birds slamming into it...

    otherwise as I said cool.

  • Maciek · 10 months ago

    So, we are going back on trees, I knew one day we will make this circle :)

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    do they make this in a hunting blind it would be a great thing for hunters

  • edward · 10 months ago

    I was hoping for something a little better than simply plastering it with mirrors

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I don't how eco-friendly this would be with birds flying into it. :(

  • Travis · 10 months ago

    What people won't waste their time with! My goodness, what'e wrong with a good old fashined tent or renting a log cabin. Anyone who has either wasted their time developing this or wasted their time entertaining the thought of using one of these needs a reality check. Helllooo come back down to planet earth! Morons!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago



    Those will make awesome hunting blinds!!

  • chris · 10 months ago

    I'm gonna go throw up some mirrors at Chernobyl...might make it more designer...

    this project is a waste like 900$ shoes

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    and when the tree grows?

  • Alex · 10 months ago

    exactly,



    it looks awesome! but there will be a big avian body count, big... they'll crash into the thing constantly...

  • Joe · 10 months ago

    That looks like an excellent hunting blind! You can shoot a lot of game from that and they wouldn't even see it coming.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago



    Those will make awesome hunting blinds!!

  • John · 10 months ago

    It would be more realistic if they just used a painting on the outside walls. Then if you look at a tree you see the trunk not sky.

  • Tom · 10 months ago

    My thoughts exactly TBT. All I see are dead birds

  • Thierry · 10 months ago

    That is just plain ridiculous if you ask me...Is this a birdhouse?

    How do you get up there?

    no stairs!

  • Sklass · 10 months ago

    YES - nice idea BUT birds will fly into it. We built a house in Canada (a green building) with large windows placed to capture maximum light and solar panels. The birds still fly into the windows. This will be even worse as they will not see it. So doesn't this negate the environmental aspect?



    And then there is the bathroom issue.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Pretty anti-environment. Plus, when the bark is stripped off the tree all the way around, as will likely happen, the tree will die and the whole thing will come crashing down before long.



    Then, what will be the "impact on the surrounding landscape" ?

  • dryden · 10 months ago

    Wow...reminds me of the "Predator"! Maybe if it gets wounded it will become more visable to the naked eye.

  • Avatar-Search.com · 10 months ago

    It looks nice and I don't think I could build much better. I give it an A for effort.

  • Cindi · 10 months ago

    Others trying this have found that the reflective surface actually "burns" surrounding grass and shrubbery with the reflection of the sun.

    Let's hope this isn't the case here.

  • Adira · 10 months ago

    Someone needs to tell these guys that mirrorred facades are notoriously fatal to birds who are as apt as we are to assume the reflection is a vast open space...



    Thank you for the article, but this is definately not "green."



    http://www.nycaudubon.org/NYCASBirdWatch/safeflightupdates/bswgPage.asp



    Peace!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    morons

  • Kelly · 10 months ago

    What about the birds?! Who's dumb idea is this?

  • CC · 10 months ago

    I am thinking this would be great for hunting. Deer and Turkey hunters would be extremely interested. Might be a good market there.

  • John Rodriguez · 10 months ago

    I sure would not want to be in one of these during a wind storm or other Natural event, falling out of a tree house is always a bad thing but add falling into a bed of razor sharp mirrored glass... I think a LaQuinta is on my horizon!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    it is a good idea kinda. it is cool to be in a tree but noone will see it and that can be bad. and how do u get up in it?

  • sarah singingbird · 10 months ago

    an ewok style village would be a better idea. this design will kill birds.

  • john · 10 months ago

    kind of unique but it sure looks like a bird killer .. big time

  • Krista · 10 months ago

    Yes, it blends in perfectly, but how does it have less impact on the environment just because it's mirrored?



    There are plenty of treehouses in my neighborhood and they don't have bathrooms either. So I'm guessing this is just better because it reflects everything and squirrels will be crashing into the sides and leaving carcasses on the ground.



    Seems to me that this treehouse will be having a worse impact on the animals rather than a better one.



    Also, what do you think will happen to the tree when wood lice decide to chew their way through or if it become old and weak.



    Still think it's a good idea?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    how many birds are going to hit that?

  • Paul · 10 months ago

    Neat idea, until a bird flies into it and dies. The tree huggers will be twisting themselves in knots then over the conundrum that has been created.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Lots of bird will strike that house and DIE! So sad.

    Why can't you build a mirror house like that infront of your front door?

  • SwedishRulz · 10 months ago

    unfortunetly my boyfriend brought to my attention that the cube in the second picture had been photoshopped :-( kinda burst my bubble - but oh well, right?

  • WTF? · 10 months ago

    I see dead birds.

  • Who cares · 10 months ago

    Looks like a prison perpetuated by the green movement.

  • C2daA · 10 months ago

    LOL, I am so glad not everyone is falling for this "second year of arch. class" design.

    No bathroom

    No ladder

    What's the structure made of?

    Does everything cantilever off the tree trunk?

    Its a BOX, every architecture student has designed a some type of living quarters in a BOX... making it a "mirror box" doesn't make this design any good, lol.

    I've seen many better tree house designs. There are architecture books about tree house designs, I hope to never see this design in those books.

  • construction will · 10 months ago

    Yeah like this will work. To many friggin liberals will have an uproar "we are hurting the natural enviorment." To hell with that cut them all down and develop it I see dollars where that picture was taken.

  • mark · 10 months ago

    Great looking treehouse...BUT, how many birds are going to feel the same way whe they smash into the mirrors?!

  • dsrtrosy · 10 months ago

    I had the same question as the second poster before I even reached this site--how is mirrored glass going to be eco friendly, when what a flying bird sees is open skies and trees? This seems just to be a cruel joke on nature. At least a "tree house" with log beams presents birds with a solid structure around which to fly.

  • RobC · 10 months ago

    Umm... won't there be a lot of dead birds that smack into that thing? That's not very cool to the local animal population.

  • Jani · 10 months ago

    It's not good; under the right conditions, the reflections could start a fire.

  • Mili · 10 months ago

    The balance should start now, greener and greener

    no other way to survive.

    M

  • Valerie · 10 months ago

    How many birds do you think will go SMACK into that? I think it's a neat idea, but after a handful of accidental kamikazes .. I think it should be reconsidered ...

  • Eric · 10 months ago

    Hmmm . . . what about bird strikes? I'm sure it won't go over well for those that think it's open space there.

  • Calkid · 10 months ago

    Ditto to everything TBT said.

  • construction will · 10 months ago

    Yeah like this will work. To many friggin liberals will have an uproar "we are hurting the natural enviorment." To hell with that cut them all down and develop it I see dollars where that picture was taken baby, Billions of American, Euro, Canadian, and what any other currency out there. These guys have too much time on there hands crap like me Im writing on a blog.

  • Southwest · 10 months ago

    This is going to kill 1000's of birds!

  • Melanie · 10 months ago

    Very neat, but not functional for a tree house. Come on, a glass tree house? Think about the impact it would have on the birds. And where exactly do they plan on putting the bathroom?

  • Richie101 · 10 months ago

    Treehuggers are funny!! Wait so you are worried more about a bunch of birds that generally over populate an area and less worried about the fact that this is yet another of man kinds wasteful ventures in helping destroy a beautifully forested area? My god what is the world coming to.

  • John · 10 months ago

    I have to agree with the posted comments. Its different for sure, but on a website supposedly promoting environmentally friendly designs, it raises alot of questions.

  • Anointed · 10 months ago

    I think it's cool. I really want to go play in the inside of it.

  • Sebastian · 10 months ago

    These things are a bird killer! How can anyone be stupid enough to put a reflective structure in a forest? Birds can't see this thing and will crash head on against the walls. It's just like slapping a high rise building in the middle of Yellowstone National Park. Don't people think!?!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    wonder how many birds fly into it?

  • kcdrew · 10 months ago

    how cool is that? thanks for posting.





    Mo Rage (google it)

  • greta B. · 10 months ago

    There is a tree house in Santa Cruz California that was built about 35 years ago...30320 Trout Gulch Road, Santa Cruz , California.

    Amazing!!! I live tree houses!

    Greta

  • natasha · 10 months ago

    I bet birds get a real 'hit' out of it (as in crash into..)

  • Rachel · 10 months ago

    I think a tall cylinder type shape disguised as a tree would be smart. but good ideas

  • Tom · 10 months ago

    Photoshopped.

  • Kim · 10 months ago

    This is as very nice idea. My only concern are the birds that will kill themselves flying into the masterpiece!

  • Cynthia · 10 months ago

    Bathrooms are always important when you are up in the trees. The most obvious question to me would be one of practicality. How many bird strikes does this jewel receive? Now that would be a rude morning wake-up.

  • Ken · 10 months ago

    This would be great for deer hunting. The perfect tree stand!

  • seo · 10 months ago

    This looks cool and everything, but its a wicked bad idea, birds will crash right into this thing because they wont be able to tell from far away whether it's a wall or open air since it blends in with the trees! birds die all the time from flying into windows because they see the reflection of trees and don't realize its glass.

  • EcoBiko · 10 months ago

    Dead birds. That was my initial thought.

  • anthony hiquiana · 10 months ago

    i am a secong year civil engineering student in the philippines..

    wow....that was a nice structure.....good design and idea to keep the surrondings near to you.....

    but i have some questions...

    will that be fit in the philippines?

    will it stand on a strong storm?

    what trees will fit to build that structure?



    that was a nice design for families living in the woods, forests and etc.....

  • kcdrew · 10 months ago

    yeah, now that I think of it, this doesn't make much sense and no doubt is bad for the environment in about 3 to 5 different ways, beginning with killing birds.



    Mo Rage

    kcphotog blogspot

  • cenk · 10 months ago

    Am I the only one who thinks this is not environment safe what so ever? These rooms going to kill good amount of birds and will attract many bugs.



    Treehuggers literally hugs the trees but do not think about any consequences. Clever!

  • painted jezabel · 10 months ago

    My first thought was "wow shiny" my second thought was "what clever designers, I can't see how it is being supported without damaging the tree" and finally I can't help but think "how exactly is this eco-friendly"? I still can't see how it is a pro-environmental design.

  • natasha · 10 months ago

    I bet birds get a real 'hit' out of it (as in crash into..)

  • Theresa Gentry · 10 months ago

    Dead birds anyone? Maybe the point is to leave these undisturbed forests exactly that, undisturbed. To have minimum impact, maybe we should stay out and not cause birds to have maximum impact with this "hotel" in a box. While it is laudable to try to blend in with our natural surroundings, this is not the way to do it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    it would make a great deer stand.

  • Christie · 10 months ago

    With everything going on in the world it would be nice to see people addressing real housing issues. In addition, it shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out birds will literally be killing themselves with this design.

  • Jody · 10 months ago

    Fine until the first big storm, when glass shards will be littering this lovely forest...

  • Everyone · 10 months ago

    Not Practical...and thus pointless...

  • Frank · 10 months ago

    what happens when some punks in the woods hurl a rock at it?

  • JCUPP · 10 months ago

    This article is WRONG!!!!! The offical website says it does have a bathroom:



    http://www.tvh.se/main.php

  • Wildlifewoman · 10 months ago

    Wow, this is the worst idea that i have come across in ages! Aside from the fact that the mirrow reflect the images of the surrounding trees, how exactly is this "green." More importantly, as Rockfish had commented, imagine how many birds will be KILLED b/c of the mirrors. For more info on Bird Window Collisions:



    http://www.muhlenberg.edu/depts/biology/faculty/klem/ACO/Wilson%20Bull%201989.pdf



    http://www.awionline.org/pubs/Quarterly/04_53_4/534p4_5.htm

  • TLD · 10 months ago

    Seems like I've seen this design before...oh yeah...it was on one of those hunting shows with Ted Nugent, I think it is called a deer blind.

  • michelle · 10 months ago

    great until a bird or other animal crashes into it an dies?don;t you think?

  • Mark · 10 months ago

    That idea is something I'd expect out of the 1980's. Ridiculously tacky and certainly won't do well for the local bird life. It may reflect beauty, but certainly doesn't attract any.

  • M Sullivan · 10 months ago

    Though it does blend in perfectly with its surroundings, isn't it a hazard for local birds ? I can't imagine birds don't fly into this and seriously injure themselves on an almost regular basis. If I was a cat, I'd sure be hanging around nearby THAT treehouse.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    wow thats amazing

  • Dif · 10 months ago

    take a look a it

  • cydni · 10 months ago

    how do u get inside

  • goldiemcg · 10 months ago

    "The rendering always makes the building disappear..." well, these are renderings too, what's to make them look as good as they do in the pictures we see here? They're clearly PhotoShopped, especially the second one, the trees in the "reflection" are copied from the trees in the background. Since you're mocking the buildings that are rendered nicely and then built to be an eyesore, please build one of these for real and then let's be the judge of them.



    And no, I'm not against them, nice idea. Practical? No. Would I go to take a vacation in the woods with no view and stay in a cramped box? No. Creative, yes.

  • Jamie · 10 months ago

    Haha... my first thought was birds flying into it. Looks like I'm not alone.

  • Sarah · 10 months ago

    Can you please tell me what the point of this is? This is designed to minimize impact on the surrounding area. What? Am I missing something? And how does one get up there? Is there a bathroom? I am obviously seeing a box here with mirrored sides and nothing else. Another waste of wealthy people spending their money on stupid crap.

  • jw · 10 months ago

    What about the birds, how would they feel flying through the trees and smacking into this.





  • Travl4fn · 10 months ago

    Bet the birds are pissed ! flying into mirrors and breaking necks. This will not sit well with those PETA freaks

  • Scott · 10 months ago

    this "house" look like a murder box... How many birds are going to fly into it and die? How many squirals will jump to a fake tree branch only to fall to their death.



    WHAT A BAD IDEA !



    P.S. The flat roof will let water pool and bacteria to form.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    won't birds fly into and die thinking they are flying through the trees???

  • irene knapp · 10 months ago

    How many birds are killed or injured flying into the glass?

  • elizabeth · 10 months ago

    how do u get up and down from this thing? i mean really!!!!

  • Ciara · 10 months ago

    This is just a "concept," correct?



    With so many flaws why would an Arch firm actually build this? To be in Dwell this month?? pfffftttt...

  • Jay2Epic · 10 months ago

    That is a genius idea. If i had the money i'd deffinatley have u guys do something like that for me.

  • galactiphat · 10 months ago

    Minimal impact on the environment? What about all the birds that will hit it?

  • Jennifer · 10 months ago

    Why would anyone want to stay the night is a so called "hotel unit" that doesn't have a bathroom?!?! Am I the only one confused here? When nature calls, nature calls, but I guess you would just climb down (how you get down or up also confuses me!) and go behind a tree, lol. Nice idea, but poorly executed!

  • bill blake · 10 months ago

    narcissistic neck pain...

    birds will smash into it, no?

    birds are stupid!

    modern? art?absurd?

  • groon · 10 months ago

    stupid...

  • Jennifer · 10 months ago

    Why would anyone want to stay the night is a so called "hotel unit" that doesn't have a bathroom?!?! Am I the only one confused here? When nature calls, nature calls, but I guess you would just climb down (how you get down or up also confuses me!) and go behind a tree, lol. Nice idea, but poorly executed!

  • building green · 10 months ago

    The design is very elegant and interesting.



    However, do you know how many birds died every year because of reflective mirror? Do the research then think deeper about this sustainable design!

  • Dan H · 10 months ago

    This would make a GREAT hunting blind or deer stand

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Who cares about the fricken birds.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    how do birds tell the different or they just smack into the tree house

  • jackoff fag · 10 months ago

    this shit is fucking gay. imagine trying to drag a body up to this thing, or a bong!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    The larger birds can be food. mmm..... yummy birds.

  • S2U · 10 months ago

    Personally I think the bird corpses would be a great little charming addition to the wonderful idea!

  • Dan H · 10 months ago

    This would make a GREAT hunting blind or deer stand.

    You can also recycle the piles of free range birds that will be "collected" under the tree, and recycle them as dinner.

    MMmmmm....

  • King · 10 months ago

    Yeah,

    I agree with TBT. This has nothing to do with "environmentally friendly", it would look cool and kill lots of birds. Unfortunately most people who have jumped on the green-wagon recently, and deal with sites like this, don't know much about anything other than continuing to consume and destroy the planet in a manner that marketing geniuses have managed to put in a pretty green guilt-free package.

  • bb · 10 months ago

    If the sun hits it just right, will it catch the forest floor on fire, say, during a dry summer?

  • Joe · 10 months ago

    Doesn't look too stable.

  • Jake · 10 months ago

    Well what if some kid gets a rifle for christmas and decides to shoot in the woods at night?lol

  • Ken · 10 months ago

    I'd like it a lot better if it was painted bright red.

  • Dewitt · 10 months ago

    Perfect Deer Stand, I like it.

  • JIM · 10 months ago

    Am I the only person who has witnessed birds fly into windows? How many birds are going to die while flying into this ridiculous contraption? Foolish!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I feel bad for all the birds that are going to fly into the house and die.

  • Nate · 10 months ago

    Looks cool. However one problem is that this tree-hugger is very likely a bird-killer. You've stuck a highly reflective surface in a forest, where birds are bound to be flying around. Fact is, birds will see sky and trees, and do not have the ability to distinguish between reality and illusion, so they will fly straight into the thing. I'm not yet a licensed architect, but will be in the near future, and I would hope these architects have considered this...

  • tina · 10 months ago

    the problem is that humans think they are so smart but i really do not see the logic of this. is the economy not bad enough that you will waste money on building dumb non sense like this?

  • wraith · 10 months ago

    Also, let's hope the tree doesn't get struck by lightening or get toppled in a storm... The extra surface area of the structure would make that tree super unstable in high winds.

  • Tom · 10 months ago

    Pretty Coooool looking! How the Hell do you get into the thing--become a bird and fly up to it? If that were the case, you'd likely fly into the glass side as so many birds will--suicide birds. Yeah,,,that's the ticket!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    kinda boring i probaly would nt sleep in it

  • RVK · 10 months ago

    Its realy sad that all you people are concerned about is birds. This is the coolest treehouse EVER!!!

  • Robert Yokum · 10 months ago

    IMO....this is NOT Eco-friendly. I have BIRDS fly into my windows all the time....if my windows looked like a forest/ tree or sky because of mirrors, its a disaster waiting to happen.

  • Dave · 10 months ago

    Mirrror glass only works in bright daylight. At night does everyone see into the treehouse? In fact, the light from inside would make you totally stand out at night. I hope you dont expect night time privacy. How does a handicap person get in? If you get hurt inside, how do you escape? What if there is a fire? Hmmm....

  • Sam · 10 months ago

    Perfect for hunting.

  • JK · 10 months ago

    No impact on the environment...tell that to the bird that makes an impact on the side of the tree house.

  • Zizi O · 10 months ago

    YA-OK picture this.. Thunderstorm AND LIGHTNING of the enormous kind..

  • jd · 10 months ago

    if it's invisible, or nearly invisible, wont birds get killed by flying into it?

  • SRB · 10 months ago

    TBT you took the words right out of my mouth. I have a few windows in my home that tend to get bird strikes. Based on my experience with that this project seems downright cruel. I'm surprised PETA isn't all over this.

  • Kate · 10 months ago

    Who would put a hotel in a forest? And why? And the travel in and out of the forest would definitely have an impact on the surroundings. Interesting concept, but not a very practical/real approach to green temporary/travel housing. Also, it looks very cramped (i.e. uncomfortable).

  • Robert · 10 months ago

    I have to agree with TBT, this is a nice idea, but not well thought out. Birds will fly into clear glass, this is a mirrored reflection to blend in even more. I am astounded that this is actually being published as positive and eco-friendly. Sustainability has nothing to do with visual aspects, it is about concern for the environment. I do not see that in this instance.

  • Andres Bustamante · 10 months ago

    This is a horrible idea! Birds can't tell the difference between reflective surfaces and the sky or another tree. Talk about a perfect way to destroy mother nature. This is like you putting on a blindfold and running through the forest--good luck not smacking into a tree! We cannot promote such irresponsibility.

  • Rick · 10 months ago

    This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. EVER

  • myvettegets5mpg · 10 months ago

    Since there are so many anti-gun people in the world I guess you could always eat the birds that fly into it without having to shoot them.

  • JayJay · 10 months ago

    That's such a cool idea! It looks really cool, blending into the forest, and all that.

    But what about the animals? I mean, what if they mistake this "hotel" for a nesting ground or something?

    And birds could accidentally fly into it, and get hurt.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    These are doctored photos, the lighting is not right.

  • Heidi · 10 months ago

    Treehouses are fascinating and dreamworthy accomplishments in almost any incarnation. This one doesn't strike my fancy as the ideal sort of hideaway that blends in and doesn't bother the environment. As my art teacher always emphasized, there are no perfectly straight lines in nature. A box is still a box, even if it mirrors its surroundings. I also wonder about birds smacking into it, and wouldn't it be a blinding flare at certain times of day from reflecting the sun? How would that affect the surrounding growth? Would the moss get all confused and try to grow more on a different side of the trees? To call it a hotel unit without the basic comforts of access and proper sanitation is a stretch. I'm guessing that guests of even the male variety would find this awkward at some point.

  • Kristina · 10 months ago

    Very clever idea, but this design poses a huge hazard for birds. They birds may not know that there is a large metal block in their way because it appears to be just another section of sky. They may fly into it... breaking their necks. Buildings like these with the reflective surfaces are the cause of millions of bird deaths every year.

  • Eric · 10 months ago

    What about the birds! There's nothing eco-friendly about this. Think before posting to your website.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    wow that is sooooooooo cooooool!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    The first thing I thought of when I saw this project, was all the birds these treehouses are going to kill. How sad that an environmentally focused group did not even think of this. :(

  • bob · 10 months ago

    These are doctored photos, the lighting is not right.

  • BILLY JAMES · 10 months ago

    Screw the birds, who needs them anyways? Would rather not get the bird flu from these nasty beasts. Build these all over the country.

  • jay · 10 months ago

    this is a ludicrous idea. it will harm wildlife more than help it. we're all familiar with birds flying into large windows and dying. they're seeing a reflection of they're surroundings. to them it looks like forest.

    this is a bad idea.

  • Derek D · 10 months ago

    Typical media/politico half ass rhetoric. There is nothing "green", "eco-friendly" or "sustainable" about this idea even if you could assign a meaning to these incredibly vapid terms. What makes it any of these things? The fact that it is in the woods? You still need structural components, in this case more specialized because they are being attached to a substandard "foundation". You need heavy glass, complete with the highly processed (read BIG carbon footprint) fine metal powders that make them reflective (and thus a huge hazard for birds). And of course you'll then need a means to transport these materials to the jobsite which means destroying the forest floor. And that's just to build the box, without considering things like power and plumbing. But the average idiot ObamAmerican sees a tree, hears the word "green" and it's good enough for them. "who should I sign over my stimulus check to?" they'll say.



    A fake hotel in a tree is no different than a fake tree in a hotel. If you think this is "green" then I'm afraid the "tree" you are hugging may actually be the Stupid Stick.

  • Teresa Walker · 10 months ago

    I think is very nice, but I wouldn't say it wouldn't have an impact on the environment.



    After all, it going to have quite a few impacts when birds try to land on a branch only to find themselves in a head on collision with a mirrored wall.



    OUCH!



    Reminds me of that Windex Commercial, but a little more serious.

  • Brandon · 10 months ago

    ITS very good and you can kind see it but thats a good thing i think that it clould be used for hunting

    very good work!

  • Bob · 10 months ago

    Wow, those look AWESOME!

    That's what she said...



    ~~BOB~~

  • Brandon · 10 months ago

    ITS very good and you can kind see it but thats a good thing i think that it clould be used for hunting

    very good work!

  • kevin · 10 months ago

    is this thing real? i am an architect and am embarrassed when i see things like this. i am not against innovation, i think it is necessary in every profession, as long as there is some applicable value to it. the engineering is not difficult and the design is basically the application of mirrors, which is more of a first year design school trick than any thing of value.

  • Learjet · 10 months ago

    I agree with TBT, how the *&%@!* could this be on this site when I can guarantee this will kill birds!!

    Wake-Up Editor.

  • jamie hedrick · 10 months ago

    I'm no rocket scientist, but on the architect's drawing & by the background wires , you can clearly see the access to the tree house- a type of swing bridge from the other tree.

    How did the blogger miss this?

  • debbie smalley · 10 months ago

    I am not an expert. It is a beautiful design And yes it looks green.

    However a mirror image seems to create two issues that I am unsure if anyone has considered.

    I) Have you ever seen a bird fly straight into a clean window because the reflection from the outside created an illusion. Don't you think the impact on nature should be tested 1st . I would like to know how many birds are lying below that tree house.



    2) Aren't the tree's and foliage ,that are to the east and west of this house more likely to become very burned from and dried out, by the intense reflections of the sun? Seems like something would eventually catch fire, from the intense heat.

    Are the mirrors at least solar panels, so it makes it's own energy?

    I am not trying to be negative.I am just having a hard time seeing how this is green. Other than allowing us to view nature with out obstruction, how does it help positively support the earth. It Seems in vain.

  • Tony · 10 months ago

    How is this sustainable or low impact? The only benefit it supplies is asthetics. How is it powered? How is waste disposed?



    This isn't green, it's eco-chic.

  • Dave · 10 months ago

    well on top of the dieing little birds, imagine an elderly tree huger wants one close to the ground and he cant find home after the eye exam or how about the mess left on the ground from a 80mph straight line wind, this thing is a fatally flawed Idea and should be viewd as such. who ever thought of this should be given the moron award! spend more time creating a real solution and less time being stupid!!!

  • Marcelo V Ferreyra · 10 months ago

    Yeah, invisible to all of those Near Extintion Birds too. So much for Eco_Friendly.!!!

  • Turd Ferguson · 10 months ago

    To TBT: Pretty colored bird corpses LOL I Laughed my a** off!

  • KOB · 10 months ago

    Its is a low impact building right up to the point that birds kill themselves flying into it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    thats really nice especially from the outside i wish my room was like that =]

  • Karl · 10 months ago

    I agree with the bird comments. You know there will be lots of dead birds at the trunk of the tree. Another thing to think about is the reflective light. Can you guarantee a forest fire will not start from the reflection during a hot drought?

  • rob · 10 months ago

    yeah great idea if you are hunter, who needs all the animals around anyway, they just poop everywhere

  • Seth · 10 months ago

    Also since the walls are mirrors, and I doubt they will reflect all light evenly, is there a danger that these boxes might just make a fire on especially hot dry sunny days?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    One word: Birds

  • Snotty crotch rot · 10 months ago

    What about the tree's feelings? Is it fair to mutilate one of mother nature's gifts for amusement? What about the squirrels? This adds to global warming! Those mirrors are killing polar bears! We should be protesting this disgusting display of Dubya-style neo-con capitalism! Power to the people!

  • AZ · 10 months ago

    If it's eco friendly, how will birds and animals know it is not a tree. They will try to land on a branch that is reflected off the mirror and crash.



    Well, we'll see after time how well this does...

  • Mike · 10 months ago

    The ultimate camo for my deer hunting tree stand....plus all the amenities of home...minus the loo.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It won't impact it's surroundings except for the bird that splattesr into it at full speed thinking he's flying through the woods and at the very last instance finds himself flying sraight for another feathered friend who is flying straight at him and looks alarmingly identicle to him. So much for eco-friendly.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It won't impact it's surroundings except for the bird that splattesr into it at full speed thinking he's flying through the woods and at the very last instance finds himself flying sraight for another feathered friend who is flying straight at him and looks alarmingly identicle to him. So much for eco-friendly.

  • KOB · 10 months ago

    Its is a low impact building right up to the point that birds kill themselves flying into it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Great idea for a perfect deer blind.

  • Michelle Garcia · 10 months ago

    Oh my goodness!



    This is the most amazing idea!

    Considering i have always wanted to live in a tree house!



    I really would love to have this!



    But i have plans to join Sea Sheperds after high school.



    But this is a good idea especially if you want your kinds to have a tree house!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    sounds neat. but, the unsuspected birds may fly into the glass thinking there is a tree (which actually is an image). More birds will die this way.

  • Linda Weatherby · 10 months ago

    This could be a boon to humane hunting, as well. Just put it on the ground, and the hunters won't have to shoot off guns anymore - they can just hide and wait for the deer to brain themselves slamming into it.

  • gloria shamsi · 10 months ago

    What happens when the tree outgrows the box? How about thinking 'outside the box'? Like where do you take a shower or go potty? Kitchen without a sink? Just a big aluminum box, that may attract lightening. Probably costs 2 million euro.

  • butch · 10 months ago

    would make a great deer stand

  • Michael · 10 months ago

    While I think it's neat, I'd say that some passing birds may take issue with it. They have a nasty habit of flying in the air and the optical effect of clear skies ahead, might cause some confusion.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    OMG thats s COOL.....

  • Glenn · 10 months ago

    Thats great, UNTILTHE SUN HITS THE MIRRORS! Then it becomes a big glare box, so the dying light on the horizon becomes a blinding beam to poor, unwary woodland critters. You want zero impact.....don't build ANYTHING. Otherwise, forget it. Humans making things and putting them into nature is by definition, leaving a footprint.



    It's no more eco-friendly than a brick outhouse, since I am sure it probably would impact something unforeseen, like the migration habits of birds, or the habitat for insects, or nesting places for voles or something.



    When will man learn that everything he manufactures is unnatural? That being said, nice try.

  • Jesus · 10 months ago

    Personally, you're going to need this house and every single "Planet of the Apes" movie in order to survive the Obama Years. This house will shield you from a soon-to-be out of control onslaught.

  • Hunter · 10 months ago

    Where can I buy one of these, It would make a great Deer Blind.

  • Stupid Gorrilla · 10 months ago

    awesome dudes!

  • Piza99 · 10 months ago

    I immediately thought about the birds too.

    If you want to spend a night in the forest, it's called camping.

    If you are one of the few people who must have a treehouse, how about using wood from fallen trees (from storms, etc) to build it?

  • Ken · 10 months ago

    Wow neat.....but I bet the fast moving birds are quite surprised

  • RCMP Vernon · 10 months ago

    Brilliant!

    How about mirrored Cell Towers so they blend in with the sky?



    Seriously, this treehouse is an ugly, artificial thing that would never appeal to a nature-lover or "tree-hugger" as the Media (which has its offices in tall glass buildings) likes to call them.

    I have seen achitecture that uses natural materials and organic shapes that blend better into nature.

    Glass rectangles are the opposite of that.

  • gio · 10 months ago

    Its a good idea if they hadnt used photoshop to create this....as you can see there is no trees under that tree and according to the bottom of the box "treehouse" there is a tree there...also if you pay close attention to the so called mirrors, those are cut outs of the same picture it self....

  • mountain bluebird · 10 months ago

    It looks amazing. But what about the birds? Its not so environment friendly if birds die flying into it.

  • Howard Burkel · 10 months ago

    This is gonna make a great tree stand for deer hunting. When will it be on the market?

  • comoque? · 10 months ago

    Ya cool concept but what about all the birds that will be flying into that thing. NOT a very smart idea after all! Re try Geniuses!!!

  • Lorien Moria · 10 months ago

    Question...? If they want it to fit in and have minimal impact, then..umm...ahh why not build it out of wood? Kind of like a tree house? Or a cabin? Hey they could use all the left over Christmas trees that everyone throws away! :) I bet that would look much better and the birds would keep chirping instead of ending up under the structure...As another user pointed out...Cheers..Lorien

  • Tori · 10 months ago

    This is a horrible idea. Think about it, reccently, all these birds have been crashing into those building with the reflective windows. The birds crash into the window because the window reflects the sky and the birds think they are just flying into more sky. Instead, they crash into the walls and die. You put all these reflective buildings by all these trees-what most birds live in-and you'll notice more dead birds lying on the ground.

  • ray · 10 months ago

    THIS IS AWESOME, I LOVE IT!!!

  • christopher strauss · 10 months ago

    hey that is cool can you hunte from it that would be good for souther people good job! =)

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    That looks toltally not cool they just make it to be cool and make money get over it.

  • Matt · 10 months ago

    Bad idea. All you'll hear in the house is the sound of birds smashing into the walls.

  • N · 10 months ago

    It doesn't seem that there is a door in and out as well.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Right. Like a 'guest of the female variety" would spend the night in your dorky little treehouse...

  • A · 10 months ago

    Typical form-over-function thinking, if there is any thinking involved at all. "minimize impact"...that's a joke right? Folks needn't worry about birds getting killed flying into it...they can count on it. This thing will kill more birds than Frank Perdue.

  • shaana · 10 months ago

    what about the flying animals that may meet their death because of this????

  • Caroline Hargrove · 10 months ago

    Remember on the farm, without thinking my Grandparents put up a miorred shadowbox across from a large picture window. After the first bird hit the double pain glass, there were certain times of the day the drapes had to be closed, so no other birds would do the same.

    Perhaps would have been better to make it out of old dead trees, placing the logs vertical, with window shutters made the same, as well as installing a bathroom. Have seen some very neat designs for both exterior and interior using wood, branches etc. The old wood really looks good, even the old grey wood from barns, then could paint what would appear to be reflections on it without it being reflective.

    Guess men just don't always stop and think before they do things, as most women can atest too when it comes to homes and apartments. Not to mention they build cupboards etc as if everyone in the world was 7 foot tall.

    Just my views. lol

  • Joseph · 10 months ago

    I'm assuming birds dont normally get involved in head on collisions with each other, therefore I'd assume they would avoid the bird flying at them in the mirror and therefore avoid hitting the tree house.

  • I.P. Frehly · 10 months ago

    In Texas we call these things deer blinds. Yawwnnnn.

  • bell · 10 months ago

    how many birds will die by flying right into it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Just wait til a bald eagle gets killed flying into that thing...

  • hmmmm · 10 months ago

    I am curious about the tree. Aside from all of the other issues mentioned is seems as if this particular building damages the very tree it is literally hugging. I can appreciate the forward thinking architecture and design aesthetic but perhaps this concept was not thought out thoroughly enough.

  • David · 10 months ago

    Hi,



    I agree. Birds will be flying into this thing. Not the best idea ever for a kids play house, but it certainly looks awesome!



    Will make for a good study on bird perception and reaction times.



    -Dave

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    So what about all the birds that are going to fly into this?

  • Megan Bogert · 10 months ago

    that is so awesome you should put a vertual tour on here so you can see what it really looks like and not just the plans for it are!!! just an idea!! it looks awesome though!! loving it from Kansas

  • pb · 10 months ago

    Birds. I echo the dead bird sentiment.

  • Sue · 10 months ago

    Yeah the idea of birds hitting it was the first thought that crossed my mind. Very inventive though!

  • Elaine Stewart · 10 months ago

    They did a great job on this except for those power lines, I guees there is no other way to run them. Would love to see pictures of the inside of the house.

  • lorfalcon · 10 months ago

    BAD idea... What about birds and squirrels flying into the dang mirrors? You'd think the architects would've thought that up... It happens all the time in New York City.

  • emily · 10 months ago

    UGLY! What a stupid waste of time and an ugly mess that is. Seems like the enviro-nuts have taken over the world and ANYTHING will sell or be praised if it is called "green" or whatever the idiot brainwash catchphrase of the day is... Anyway, the FACT is this is a stupid, moronic looking mess stuck in the woods FOR NO REASON. Build a treehouse or don't but this time waste novelty is obscene.





    If one bird dies over this atrocity, and many will, the creators and promoters should be deeply ashamed.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Clever I suppose, though it's a one trick pony architecturally, and it certainly beats one of those grotesque Petit Trianon "lodges" people build for themselves to play at engaging nature.



    But sustainable it isn't. Add to the maintenance issues and dead birds the forest floor rthat now effectively sits under a large impermeable umbrella, the impact of an visually opaqe object and its shadow, the worn path in and out without variety, and of course the impact of bringing in and out the pieces. And while the photo makes it "disappear" what is the perception in real life with depth perception at work?



    If sustainable means no net impact, a backpack and a tent and even lots of goodies to make a very pleasant campsite still beat this hands down, assuming you take everything when you go.



    Frankly a real treehouse wins in my book. Isn't that a more poetic relationship with the woods?

  • Danny · 10 months ago

    A cylinder would work better than the box. Although this somewhat works because it is small scale (unlike tall buildings).



    There is a problem: it will only appear to blend in if one is at the same level as the walls. Below the tree you will see a box shaped shadow with a mirror above the viewer. If I were to go a step further I would maybe lay down some concave parabolic mirrors on the ground surrounded by native shrubs and bushes and "disguised" lighting hitting those mirrors to mimic sunlight.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    What about the birds? They do not have sonar! They will crash right into the dam tree house! Geez a real struck of engineering!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    kewl idea. i guess its ecofriendly, but its wasting glass for mirrors. haha u guys dont get it do u? jk=just kidding. seriously though, how did u guys think of that?

  • Michael · 10 months ago

    They could have saved alot of money, just get some branches that have fallen to the ground and duct tape them to the sides instead of mirrors.

  • Sodwacher · 10 months ago

    Yea it helps the trees out a lot but really its just a huge fly swatter for birds. Eco friendly it think not.

  • kenna · 10 months ago

    awesome!!!

  • Jim · 10 months ago

    Don't get your neighbor mad, especially if he owns a good chainsaw... your busted house will be mirroring moss, leaves, and weeds in seconds.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i was in a diff. room and my sister had this pulled up i and i asked her why are you looking at a tree house, so this tree house is NOT 'invisible"

    unless you have a diff. explanation for invisble

  • WhiteBlood · 10 months ago

    this would work really good as a deer stand

  • Christina · 10 months ago

    lmao... I wonder how many birds fly into that!!!!!

  • Clever like a tree · 10 months ago

    Yeah, I hate birds too. This will surely kill them off. We should also design trap door houses that other wildlife can't see, maybe big enough for deer and bears to not notice. Awsome. kill em all.

  • FlyinElvis · 10 months ago

    A major problem would be the tremendous casualties to birds attempting to fly through rather than around the structure. This type of structure would effectively be a trap for any nearby birds. Not especially "green."

  • james · 10 months ago

    what happens when the tree trunk grows?

  • Deerslayer · 10 months ago

    Awesome, This would make a great deer stand. The deer would have no idea were I am at.

  • Taki · 10 months ago

    Not to sound crude.. but if you stuff it full of over weight people and have them jump up and down, will the box plumet to the earth?

    I guess my question is how well is the box secured to the tree, and how is that tree dealing with the added wait?

  • john · 10 months ago

    This would make a great deer stand.

  • Lkk · 10 months ago

    This would prove fatal to MANY birds. They can not see that the mirrored surface is solid and fly right into it....we have some small mirrored widows on our log cabin and I am always amazed and saddened by the many birds that fly into them.

  • WoodsGuy · 10 months ago

    Looks like one heck of a tree stand for deer season.....

  • Paul · 10 months ago

    Can you say DEAD BIRDS...



    Birds will fly into the mirrors daily and break thier necks! Better have a bunch of cats at the bottom!

  • Phil · 10 months ago

    It's not very eco friendly, my parents have reflective glass on their house and you can hear birds constantly flying into it since they think they are seeing something they are not.

  • jkajdflaj · 10 months ago

    cheap and tacky... how about spend more time on trying to innovate something new? I wonder how many birds you'll kill who will fly into and collide into the mirror when fooled there's nothing in front of them

  • BarbW141Fl · 10 months ago

    A very, very attractive concept - for hundreds of thousands of people this will be the connection to that "treehouse experience" they always desired as a child & young person. And it's VERY eco -friendly - it doesn't make it's environment ugly like

    contemporary & modern architecture do. As for the

    BIRDS - I think windows are the biggest cause of bird deaths due to accidents. I believe this would be highly visible enough to warn birds from flying into it.

  • patricia · 10 months ago

    if they were really tree huggers they would leave wildlife alone...birds and other animals can get hurt by trying to fly into the reflection of the "trees"

  • Rich · 10 months ago

    No impact on natural surroundings? I am sorry but I disagree that this is a great idea. The archetitect that designed it obvioulsy did not learn anything from the popular glass or mirrorred buildings of the 60' or 70's, which also were designed to have little impact on nature.



    Untill they found heaps of dead birds at their foundations. The birds never saw the buildings and smacked into ths sides and died.



    If its purpose is to have little impact on it surrounding as stated history has proven it has not hit the mark. As for a unique idea I agree. It may be a great idea for a hunting loft.



    In that case I think it is a great idea and may buy one myself.

  • Douglas · 10 months ago

    I see no cables or exterior connection points so how exactly is it attached? Most likely not in a fashion that could remotely be considered green or sustainable.

    Sorry the obvious photo shop job just makes it look like another cheap architectural firms advertisement. Is this the best they can do with the materials available on todays market?

    Not new, not cool and not worthy of this website

  • Tina · 10 months ago

    At first glance this is way cool but I'm seriously worried about birds flying right into the glass! Seriously!

  • Wendy · 10 months ago

    One problem with the use of mirrored walls is it is hazardous to the wildlife. Why? Birds are not able to distinguish a mirror from the real thing.

    I lived in a home with very large picture windows, we lost a lot of birds by slamming into the glass.

  • adam · 10 months ago

    Hate to ask the obvious question but why do we need a house in a tree? Were these people so deprived when they were kids that they have to put these things up?

  • Christopher · 10 months ago

    That would make one killer deer stand!

  • bob dowe · 10 months ago

    lighting will kill this project.lighting love to take out this tree.this in not a good Idea.to many trees give off oxygen making it to cold at night.they can lose a lot of energy.and ants will love this tree house.all you need is food crubs on the floor or table.EMT will never get to you in time living in a Invisible tree,you will sound like this on the phone.i fall and i can't get up.and they will ask you)where you live (you would say)in a Invisible tree.they will hang up on you.thinking your playing a joke on the phone.And your cell phone will drop your calls evey time you move in the house.fire ants,wind stroms,killerposion black widow spiders,if you fall down out of the tree house in the middle of the night.don't wait for some one to save you.you better crawl for help.with you broken leg.and win your walking watch out for fire ants.mold is going to love you.lol.drunks love to hang out in the woods.make shore you don't make friends to some ,because they will ask you to crawl out of the house every night to go buy beer in your car.this hotle is a fire fighters night mare.any one needs some fire wood ha ha ha

  • Nedim Kemer · 10 months ago

    This is a solid bird trap. I can not believe you praise this. Plus I never thought a tree house was unsightly to look at, why hide it? Please do no matter what you do but do not ever encourage hiding and disguising as an architectural style. It never works in general. Be blunt, honest and brave in your designs so you can come up with solution. This is not a solution to a question of tree house. It is a bird killer....

  • Dan · 10 months ago

    wow that is a cool idea for a tree house it would make a great tree stand for hunting

  • Flannel · 10 months ago

    Personally, I think if you feel the need to have something like that, you just need to stay out of the woods. You don't get it.

  • Angela · 10 months ago

    i find this quite interesting....

  • Paul · 10 months ago

    Gimmicky and Unsophisticated.



    Hows the view from the inside? Why lift a building on a tree to only be able to look out from a terrace at the top? Better to do this in a cave



    Maybe a 2 way mirror in some places might allow a view out but this would glow at night defeating the stated purpose to "minimize impact on the surrounding landscape"



    Keep trying.

  • Lucie · 10 months ago

    Dang thats really cool i want to go in it!!!! :)

  • glorimar · 10 months ago

    well its a great idea and every great idea has a wierd end to it like wat if the birds are confused they might crash right into it

  • Torrey · 10 months ago

    What happens when birds fly right into the mirrors thinking its the natural scenery?

  • jim · 10 months ago

    it doesn't look safe

  • simona · 10 months ago

    Feel sorry for the birds who will run into it :)

  • Majed · 10 months ago

    Just not that impressive. Maybe it could be useful for a military application, but being reflective does not make it more eco-friendly. It would be more eco-friendly if it was made 100% out of biodegradable materials and not reflective.

  • JAlva · 10 months ago

    Hmmm. What if someone bird hunting doesn't see it and takes a couple of pop shots at it by mistake?

  • jay · 10 months ago

    cool...deer hunters can hunt in style with this baby.

  • K.B. · 10 months ago

    Dude, you"re not supposed to ask questions like that. You're just supposed to go all gaga that someone has a "Green" Idea and just applaud them.

    My question is "Is this intended as residence or as a hunter's blind/camp?" As a residence, the idea is absurd. As a hunter blind it makes much more sense. But aren't hunters evil? The concept of a green idea promoting hunters is ... dangit, I just fell into my own trap.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I'd like for the guy who invented this tree house to tell me how eco friendly his mirror tree house is when a bird slams into it thinking he's flying through free space. LOL!

  • mr tony · 10 months ago

    just like a tree hugger make something that reflects the soundrings so the birds will fly in to it and break there neck

  • Kevin · 10 months ago

    Yeah....That blends in just like the mirrored skyscrapers do.NOT!!! That's as hiden from human eyes as the tree it's self.Birds on the other hand....It would be interesting to have you follow up on the bird thing

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    well the birds would be a porblem but yea a more rounded shape may help with wind and stuff and the adthionof a restroom would make it a lil more ideal

  • Bob · 10 months ago

    Unbelievable!! The first two comments hit the nail on the head. This is NOT good for the environment. Birds will fly into it and die. Also, the disturbance can cause problems for other animals. Things that are "green" are becoming very trendy and folks are looking to cash in on that trend. I hope consumers are smart enough to realize the difference between what truly is good for the environment, and what is simply marketed as "green" to get your cash.

  • swm · 10 months ago

    TBT.....That's exactly what I thought the moment I saw this!!!!.



    "designed to minimize impact on the surrounding landscape" ????????? Forget the wildlife right???



    How stupid!

  • Scott · 10 months ago

    Wow, first time on your site and have to admit, I know why I am not a tree hugger. Nothing but negativity and criticism. My not be the perfect solution by what a creative one. Guess you dont get recognized for creativity on this site, just bashed if you dont meet the status qou of other tree huggers. Cynical group.

  • shye · 10 months ago

    this is edited by computer the box is too perfect and reflection too

  • tjr · 10 months ago

    oh it includes a terrace...for those eco friendly cigarette breaks

  • Rick · 10 months ago

    No comments other than cool, way cool. Posting here just to stay abreast of future comments & information.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    um what about the ladder

  • prometeo · 10 months ago

    I was thinking the same thing about the birds, and other flying species. you know what is better than an invisible treehouse in the middle of the forest? None. i can't believe airheaded designers and architects do things without deeper reflexion, showing stuff with nice graphics too sell their "cool" idea. It's just retarded.

  • Cami · 10 months ago

    what about the birds that will die because they slam into the side of it??

  • keke · 10 months ago

    Won't birds mistake it for whatever the mirror is reflecting and probably die or get hurt.(I know you sure will have a hard time to sleeping) besides that its creative (in a way)

  • MAC · 10 months ago

    Whats the point in this? Oh I get it, NOTHING! Tham & VIdegard, I'm 95% sure, paid a hefty amount to an Advertising firm to have this "article" placed on a site like this.... Way to sell out guys!!! Like the person commented below, thousands of birds that fly around the woods and backyards would smash into this stupid idea by the truckloads. Birds don't communicate with other birds. They squeak alot, but they are not telling their buddies "Hey, be careful! some retard put up an invisable wall two clicks over from Miss Fran's Oak Twig Nest. " This kind of aritcle makes me not want to come back to the site

  • Andy B. · 10 months ago

    This idea fails on all fronts.

  • lostinlove813 · 10 months ago

    how is this eco friendly when all the "dumb" birds slam into it??? dead birds are not eco friendly. this is honestly real cool but REALLY stupid at the same time

  • hugh mcpeck · 10 months ago

    well it still is an intrusion in the environment and probably will eventually kill the tree. A hole in the ground would be better. The mirrored box is still a mirrored box/

  • Gary Paz · 10 months ago

    Way-out-there! Some may even clam it's a "UFO"! (Unidentified Forest Object)

  • Shannon Alamina · 10 months ago

    Yep. My thoughts exactly.. Glad they are looking out for the birds... What a joke.

  • Cheerchick · 10 months ago

    I think it is a cool idea but not fully thought out first. Like the whole bathroom thing, and the lader, also i think it may need to be a bit larger for us claustrophobic people. With a little work i think it could work out good. Oh and may want to put some of those cling-on hawks to the sides so u know....... bye bye birdie

  • Jessica · 10 months ago

    Awesome, this is great stuff.

    Keep up the incredible work!!!

  • AW · 10 months ago

    I believe the first, second and fourth comment sum it all up. They forgot to add the price of this box, and how heavy it would be. How would you move it? How would you keep it on the tree in the air?

  • Gothic Hangman · 10 months ago

    This is an apparent architectural blunder. The artist Eugene Delacroix said "There are no straight lines in nature." Might I add that no boxes are to be found in the natural word either.

    Tam & Videgard Hansson want to disguise their Emperor's New Clothes with mirrors.



    This is an unfortunate deficit in achievement, everyone from a child to Tarzan should want a better tree house. Let me pose the challenge for them to do something that is more organic & compliments nature.If the want to do something more useful they should apply this concept to cellphone towers.

  • corey basham · 10 months ago

    This is nothing more then a tree house. it is nothing spectacular. this is like something you would design for a kid only with nicer materials. i just hope i am not wasting 7 years of my life in architecture school to design tree houses.

  • mike · 10 months ago

    Even if this is good for the environment, it does not seem good for people. good luck with the plumbing and electricity. Have fun climbing up. The only real technology in this project is the mirror. I believe that was discovered long ago. Everything else in this project appears to take a step backwards. Lets come up with ideas that will move forward.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    WOW that is awesome. great idea. completley pointless but still is cool. as for birds flying into it thats just funny as hell! that would be the funniest thing ever to be looking at it and all the sudden like 6 birds fly smack into it! hahahaha. priceless.

  • Kristin Day · 10 months ago

    I agree with several of these statements from other readers. This is in no way an eco-friendly solution. As soon as I saw the picture, my first though was, "Yea, it'll be real aco-friendly when birds and insects start smacking themselves into the walls because they can't properly see them." And I also agree that there needs to be some way of easily geting in & out of such a structure or else they're going to have even more problems (between customers and places such as the fire department). My oppinion...(and I think everyone else here will agree)...dump these plans and try to come up with something a bit more logical.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    any quick and easy bird splatter removal ideas?

  • Ash · 10 months ago

    This is a ludicrous attempt yet again at 'blending in the surroundings'. I can't beleive the treehuggers fell for this. I don't mind the glass box without the "green' label though.

  • Deathdonut · 10 months ago

    Wouldn't an ugly visible "high impact" tree house kill fewer birds?

  • Frannie · 10 months ago

    Hey this is a great idea.........the raccoons will just love it.....And since they can munch down all those dead birds..and they will...they will stay out of everyones houses.....





    Long live the RACCOONS!

  • Gamaliel R · 10 months ago

    it is very interesting how the man wants to adapt our own life style in the nature, but what about with the animals impact in their own enviroment? I am sure some birds will crahs and they will die...



    it is my opinion

  • ZAPPADOODLE · 10 months ago

    OMG thoughs are the BEST tree houses i have eva seen!! me and my friend were thinking of making a tree house and couldnt think of sonething creative but now we know thanx!!

  • Doc · 10 months ago

    This in my opinion is a neat design, but it's a slaughter house if you think about it. Hunters around the world will snatch these things up if they ever drop to a decent "normal man" kinda price.



    Animals as we know them will become exstinct. Bye bye deer, moose, elk, bear, ect.



    Hope those scientists are ready to start cloning species that are even more endangered

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Haha. I love this! I think this is modern architecture at its finest. If I could afford it, I'd have one of these bad boys in my backyard and sleep in it every night. As for the concerns about the dead birds and such, there's always going to be problems with new, innovative ideas, especially ones concerning the environment. It's nearly impossible to help one part of nature without slightly hurting another. And besides, the birds shouldn't be flying that low anyway.

  • Dee · 10 months ago

    This might work great for wildlife observation out in a wilderness area; if one could get the materials in to build it, it seems like it might work very well.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Wait until it kills countless birds when they fly right into it.

  • erica · 10 months ago

    *sorry, my comment isn't that intelligent but at least it's civil. hahaha



    cool idea.. so.. uhm.. how do you get in exactly?

  • jack stone · 10 months ago

    hmmm, mirrored box? Sure its designed to minimize impact on the surrounding landscape, but you architects went to school and this is the best you can come up with? I bet it looks better in person. Why not create it out of recycled material and faux paint it? So If the forest (woods), god forbid, catches on fire, will the box just fall and shatter? Now thats something I'd like to pay and see =P. So what happens to the bark on the tree that is ingulfed by the box, since it doesnt get any sunlight? Does it stop growing or does as the tree grows and expands, will it crack the glass on bottom or top? How about the wind factor? If it gets really windy, does everything in the treehouse rattle like the leaves and fall, becoming unoraganized? hmmmm only if I could afford one of these tree houses, would be nice....

  • ecto · 10 months ago

    They had a bathroom in London that looked like that on a city street near the river Thames across from the Tate Britan, though two way mirror you can see out all around you, you can't see in, but they said it wasn't used much. It was an art exibit in 2004 entitled "Don’t Miss A Sec"

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    lol. you guys can't take the fact that you can't make somthing as awsome as this. and try to find faults to make it sound less attacting when you haven't even got the right info to start trying to find faults. maybe they found a way to keep birds from dieing. and. and this is not a waste of time. they maybe just didn't get any work and to keep themselves from getting bored they made this. i think its very well planned and designed.

  • Jim · 10 months ago

    @Bob. I hope that's your only justification for this project being anti-environmental.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    who cares about the birds, go architecture, you rule.

  • Steve · 10 months ago

    Hmmmm...makes me want to strike a match.

  • diggerd · 10 months ago

    Fake pic! C'MON!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Who ever meed the tree house it is cool. Can you make it a little more specific? Is that possible to leav on the tree house. i am not sure if want to build a tree house for the reast of our life.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Seriously, this is one of the worst ideas I've ever encountered. As others have stated, it's a common phenomenon for birds to crash into glass windows. How much more so with what is advertised as an Invisible tree house?

  • Libby · 10 months ago

    Yup, first thing I thought was "How many birds die each day flying into that thing?" I can't imagine why anyone would think putting huge mirrors in the middle of a woods where wild birds nest and live could possibly be good for the environment. Yikes. The author of this article appears to be as clueless as the builders of this awful construction.

  • Casandra Kumsung · 10 months ago

    Would not want to be their window washer.



    Or in the building in a big storm. On branch and you loose a wall!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    oh my gosh thats freakin sweet!!!! i always wanted a treehouse, thatwas big and huge, but i never thot about invisible!!!!! SWEEEEEEETTTTT!!!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    What kind of a pig head would call this eco friendly?



    What about all the small animals that forage in the trees?



    Who''s going to rake the roof?



    You'll spend all your time stepping over dead birds!



    So, you call this green? You must work for the government.

  • julie · 10 months ago

    I think this is cool! C'mon people...people always have to B*tch about something! This is really neat! I like!

  • sketch · 10 months ago

    Glad to see some intelligent comments. So far, everyone's comments have been right on...there's really nothing more to add. Concerns about how to get in and out, birds flying into it, the wear from the dust and droppings, the eagerness to claim "eco friendly" or "green", it's literally a "tree hugger" design, the cashing in, the wasting of 7 years of architecture school, the design is more befitting of a child...yup it's all there!



    Like to see how this guy or this group will ever get another prominent gig to do anything of value in the future. Do people even "think" any more before just publishing so called "great ideas"? Unbelievable!

  • bo · 10 months ago

    honestly who cares about the environment. so what like 50 birds ie a year there are like a billion more, and if the animals dont like it they can leave. i think it's kinda cool i'd be like a little hidout. you could possible hut off of it to.

  • imgreatttt · 10 months ago

    dude thats pretty tight.

    like no joke.

    i want a tree house like that!

  • Sarah · 10 months ago

    so what will happen to it as the tree grows and gets wider?

  • Shane · 10 months ago

    This is what happends when someone has more money than sense.

  • wybenga · 10 months ago

    I wonder how many birds will die by flying into that thing..

  • richard · 10 months ago

    I don't even want to talk about this...apparently none of these architects have ever mistakely tried to walk through a glass door. (Please don't tell me this was done as some sort of effort to support environmental conservation.... Check with the law of unintended consequences, you idiots!)

  • Environmentalist · 10 months ago

    This is perhaps the stupidest thing I have ever laid eyes on. "Invisible" is not synonymous with "sustainable" or "eco-friendly". This seems to be the response too many people have to environmental issues - forget about them, make them invisible so we can go on with our lives and not worry about them. Little did these guys know, but by designing this treehouse they were making a profound statement on the stupidity of humans. Brilliant!

  • Rizzi · 10 months ago

    It looked nice but I don't think it's good for the environment. The cost of keeping the tree house may prove unsustainable. And then, there's the really HUGE possibility of increased bird mortality. I hope people would spend their time, effort and skills on developing something really worthwhile for the environment.

  • molino · 10 months ago

    This is why a switched to engineering after my first year in architecture school. Architects dream stuff like this that will never be practical to build.

    If the idea is to blend in with nature, then show me a mirror tree.

  • Mocha Vaughan · 10 months ago

    A simple bird of prey sticker on all four walls should deter birds from getting too cozy with the glass. The only problem I see is when the sun hits the glass, there is potential for a blinding reflection.

  • Erin · 10 months ago

    Notice there isn't any support for the structure?!

    Do they expect the bark to hold that weight?

    Or are they drilling into the trunk? (this would also kill the tree)

    besides that it appears to defy gravity... this must be a "first year" design... and if so, why didn't any of my freshman yr designs get advertised?

  • vidalia68 · 10 months ago

    Bird corpses! EXACTLY my thought when I saw this. What a truly ridiculous design.

    And this is supposed to be a "hotel unit"? Can you imagine the impact of 50 or more of these hanging in the trees. Somebody has their head up their bum.

  • Allicia · 10 months ago

    The biggest problem with these has already been researched. Bird species don't/can't see the difference between a mirrored reflection and open sky, so they fly right into it; usually ending up in the death of the bird. This has been proven in a number of large cities who use mirrored "green" buildings. Don't just believe me, check it out for yourself: An abstract by Daniel Klem, an ornithologist at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania who has studied bird collisions for more than 30 years: http://www.muhlenberg.edu/depts/biology/faculty...

  • j.michael · 10 months ago

    you folks must me new age puritains. are you as dumb as your observations. it's diffrent ,it's art . be affraid, jackass! It's a concept.

  • BlueFish · 10 months ago

    I hope they did a Green QC on the O&M for Eco-Friendly Glass Cleaner!!!

  • elementaryfinance · 10 months ago

    This is really neat. Thanks for the article.

  • HT · 10 months ago

    like stated before, this is not at all eco-friendly, they must have come up with the designs in 30 seconds and i can already tell it wouldn't be a big hit with no bathroom or ladder. It also wouldn'f be so reflective after a couple of months and in the end the cost to maintain and make would be more than a hotel could make and if they made the prices higher people would realize the stupidity of staying in a tree house commonly found in backyards everywhere.

  • commentator · 10 months ago

    Problem 1:



    Lateral stability, unless you want the house to swing when the tree swing, then you will prob. need wires to tie down the 4 corners. This can be ignored in the rendering, but in the real word, tying all those cables down(assume thats what will be use), it will be a lot more cluttered than the above rendering looks. If you have a bunch of these hotels in a forest, you will literally be walling thru and around a bunch of wires that is tying from the bottom of the box to the ground. It looks more alien like than aesthetically pleasing.



    Problem 2:

    More with the rendering. That tree in the rendering is way to thin to support this kind of structure. With a thicker tree trunk will mean a bigger mirror box. One of these in the midst of forest of trees might be ok, but if you are talking about hotel, assuming you have a bunch of these, I am not sure the result will be as good as the rendering shows.



    This is good for a utopia project, or even a studio project. But actually build, how good it really is will be questionable...





  • James Willabody · 10 months ago

    You know what's an even better idea, is to live in a preexisting apartment. Or, if you'd like to live in the woods, there are plenty of tents available at very affordable prices. Unfortunately, affixing a huge heavy box on a tree is not sustainable or practical. Furthermore, I am unclear on how this image of the mirror tree box is any different than that of a rendered mirrored skyscraper. Surely, this looks horrible in real life. And good luck cleaning it.



    Fun to discuss these things, but completely impractical.

  • kat · 10 months ago

    I don't think this is eco-friendly. If eco-friendly means birds dying because they bumped into a wall of glass then they got that right.

  • chris · 10 months ago

    The dead birds pose a little problem but I think the bigger problem will be the dead people laying under it who fell down ladder. The last time I checked people live in houses not nests.

  • JP · 10 months ago

    Not only is this "tree hotel" stupid pseudo-environmental marketing drivel, but even the "pictures" are computer-generated lies! Look at the second picture above. See how the "reflection" from the left wall is horizontally compressed? Real mirrors don't do this. The reflection is a computer-generated panel applied by a CG tech who couldn't even figure this out.



    If Huxley and Orwell could see the sort of world we're heading into now, they'd just nod their heads sadly. So much "environmentalism" is now just scary psy-ops like this.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    WHAT ABOUT THE TREE????????????????

  • HT · 10 months ago

    like stated before, this is not at all eco-friendly, they must have come up with the designs in 30 seconds and i can already tell it wouldn't be a big hit with no bathroom or ladder. It also wouldn'f be so reflective after a couple of months and in the end the cost to maintain and make would be more than a hotel could make and if they made the prices higher people would realize the stupidity of staying in a tree house commonly found in backyards everywhere.

  • Grace · 10 months ago

    Hey that is super awesome there just mirrors that is so awesome

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    WHAT ABOUT THE TREE?????????????????????????????? What damage does it cause

  • thomas tetreault · 10 months ago

    and how many birds fly into that thing?

  • Agnar · 10 months ago

    eco friendly is all a mater of opinion for instance they say a prius is enviromentaly friendly when infact a h1 hummer is more environmetly friendly then the toyota prius because of all the energy it takes to mine and process the lithium in the battery cells

  • Katie · 10 months ago

    Wow... this is truly a waste of time as a green investment. Mirrored walls, yeah real green there. Forget the birds, where are the receptacles for compost and garbage as well as an area for a bathroom? Will another tree house a bathroom with a walkway between it?



    Structurally, I would not feel safe at all staying there. No structure supports from underneath and sides?



    I'm really trying to figure out how this is a green creation; though I certainly get the pun about it being a treehugger.

  • Ecoman · 10 months ago

    this is has some good and bad ideas. it's totally cool but all the other people are right. birds have good eyesight but not that good. they can't swerve around it. i mean don't get me wrong it's very cool but it was a waste of time. but it could be a perfect panic room and is very good to hide in at night. that still doesn't excuse it from being a waste of money.

  • keith · 10 months ago

    will you people get a life. it's a fun little idea. who cares if a few birds bite it when they crash into it and smash their little heads into the glass.

  • s mousouros · 10 months ago

    Doesn't ANYBODY consider the tree????

  • Robin · 10 months ago

    The sad thing is that they probably are already fully aware of the staggering statistics that each year, in the united states alone at least 100 million birds die after crashing into windows. And this is portrayed as a "nature loving" project. Truly quite sad.

  • ryan · 10 months ago

    awesomeeeeee

  • Robert · 10 months ago

    Pretty cool Treehouse to have in your backyard, but I don't know about having it in the forest though. It doesn't really seem to be good for the environment. I have to agree with Bob in that it's simply a disturbance for the forest and animals. I think a way to get a good grasp on what's good for the environment and/or "green" is to research and learn about it. I took this course on LEED which I thinks hit's being "green" right on the head.

    Check it out LEED CERTIFICATION PREP COURSE.

  • michelle a · 10 months ago

    Ew get your head outa your butts, this is way cool looking.

  • obvious · 10 months ago

    This is the dumbest idea/concept I have ever seen. This is not "green friendly" at all. Just because you slap some mirrors on it so it does not stick out in the forest does not mean it is environmentally friendly. Its amazing that companies advertise things as "green". Its like the gas companies putting out commercials saying they are trying to help the environment!! Obviously because they advertise as "green friendly" that means they actually are!!!

  • Jon · 10 months ago

    Are you guys serious? Stop being a bunch of babies I doubt any birds are going to fly into this its a cool idea that worked out great. Go get a life an do something useful tree huggers maybe you should help fix the economy.

  • D · 10 months ago

    this is awesome, the person who designed this is genious. love it!

  • Notro Guy · 10 months ago

    Sun Hits it just right become a problem with the neighbors! Make the side/roof solar panels or somthing and then have lights to really bring out the green!

  • Michelle · 10 months ago

    I think this design is very cool, but what happens to birds flying in through there...wouldn't they be bumping/crashing into the "invisible" treehouse???

  • Manny · 10 months ago

    I love it! very clever and artistic.

  • Camilo · 10 months ago

    haha yet I wonder, how many birds hit the building?

  • Abby · 10 months ago

    Why invade nature and its habitats? I'm sure the animals would appreciate something they can actually see before flying into it. That is just my opinion

  • Chris · 10 months ago

    It looks like there is some sort of hanging bridge in the background, connecting it to something else. Perhaps this is the method of entry/exit?

  • bob · 10 months ago

    If you have spent 7 years going to architecture school then you are either stupid (put down the bong dude) or milking mommy and daddy needlessly.

  • Willie · 10 months ago

    Tree Houses are fun. It reminds me of SocialTreehouse.com

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    awsime

  • Jay · 10 months ago

    any more comments by such small minds?

  • johnny appleseed · 10 months ago

    all of you need to get real, your all fake but god and jesus still love you and i do too.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    awesome!

  • Jo · 10 months ago

    I have decals all over my windows to lessen window kills. It's still a problem. I can only imagine the carnage. Wouldn't dead birds littering the ground and thunking into the glass be a bit off-putting to guests? Really poor planning on someone's part.

  • Bobby · 10 months ago

    You guys are taking this too seriously... Just marvel at this work of art... It is a structural master piece...

  • lauren · 10 months ago

    it's kind of a dumb idea. it's like half of a bunch of trees floating in the middle of the woods. silly, ya

  • Rob · 10 months ago

    Ummm...double kudos on the bird deaths...this will create a bloodbath and I'm sure massive litigation from bird lovers everywhere. I wonder if the bail-out funds will be used for this?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    awkward

  • Alexander · 10 months ago

    it is an old marketing trick to call something trendy (currently green is the word) when it is not and the doctor the photo so that it looks that way.

    this is a bird killer and also the monkeys and squirrels or whatever local critters that will fly toward illusionary branches.



    or course this effect will only last as long as long as lots of ammonia is used to keep the mirrors clean.



    1970 sky skrappers are not going to become green by putting them in the rain forrest



    not in my forrest

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    okay negative nancy too bad it will be reflecting all the trees and i think birds miss trees, so

  • jamieh · 10 months ago

    if birds crash into windows, wouldn't this be even worse for them? i hope the building doesn't have a bunch of dead birds lying around under it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i'd imagine birds slamming into this thing constantly. looks like it would do more harm than good. might be better off building away from the forest.

  • the dude · 10 months ago

    this is quite clever unfortunatly the only people who will probably use this are hunters.

  • Keitha · 10 months ago

    WOW! Yet another ridiculous way to ruin nature and call in inovative! Give me a break!

  • andiem · 10 months ago

    I agree with all the other comments about how "sustainable" this really is...along with problems accessing the treehouse, where's the toilet?

  • OCLakers · 10 months ago

    I think this is really cool. Like another dimension in nature! I would like to have a forest getaway like this.

  • treeboy · 10 months ago

    What a great idea for a 5 yrs old... wahahhaa. This is a nice tree house... I can hide my food in the kitchen... hehehehhe

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    wooooooo

  • V · 10 months ago

    I feel the tree houses are going to kill lot of birds. I saw near my clients office lot of dead birds below a glass overpass. We found the reason for the dead birds is, the birds hit the glass overpass as they can't see the transparent glass overpass.

  • JDB · 10 months ago

    I think it would be better for nature to burn that tree + house down and save all the birds in the area form broken faces.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Newsflash: Bird's have depth perception. They will notice when a camouflaged wall isn't moving. They run into glass because it's clear, not because the carpet inside looks farther away than it is. This is very much a solid looking object, and if you were walking (or flying) anywhere near it that would be readily apparent. These stills are misleading. Stop carrying on about the birds. It's well done.

  • barneyjb · 10 months ago

    I would probably be more "eco friendly" if it were painted blaze orange...

  • Katherine · 10 months ago

    this is actually a hazard! bird will fly into it!!



    also, um how do you get up there if there's no ladder? it's also innefecient because there's no bathroom!

  • Mary · 10 months ago

    Really really dumb!! Even a first grader can see how harmful this can be. You will be killing birds! There is nothing original or sophisticaed about this design - just dumb and inconsiderate idea. I would expect more from you guys..disappointed!!!

  • MannyPhr3sh · 10 months ago

    How does what get in the tree? Sorry I am a dumba** and don't like to read much, or at all actually. I actually hate reading what I am typing so I'm gunna stopd fvcaring about hhow i type dudes. but yeag hu cares about birds and aminals, there all going to die anyway just like us. stop wasting your time trying to save them, as you will most likely never will.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Newsflash: Bird's have depth perception. They will notice when a camouflaged wall isn't moving. They run into glass because it's clear, not because the carpet inside looks farther away than it is. This is very much a solid looking object, and if you were walking (or flying) anywhere near it that would be readily apparent. These stills are misleading. Stop carrying on about the birds. It's well done.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    looks fake!

  • jonathan · 10 months ago

    Myself, being a small businessman with large storefront windows, birds will collide with them usually once or twice per year. So I don't think a nearly invisible treehouse is a good idea for the environment, it could actually prove to be very dangerous for all winged animals. A better idea would be a treehouse that looks like part of the tree and naturally blends in, instead of being cloaked like a sci-fi movie.

  • chris culotta · 10 months ago

    This is an awful idea. What about the animals? id throw rocks at it if i saw it

  • scott · 10 months ago

    how can you post this as if its a great thing how many birds are going to have to die before you know this was a bad idea its sad enough heartless people abuse and kill innocent animals in this world but now you have to add on to the innocent killings of birds because you think this is sooo cool its not

  • Nichole · 10 months ago

    Just as others have commented already, my first thought was about the FACT that there will be many birds killed by this "invisible" treehouse. Sad...and honestly, I see no point in the structure at all. How long will it really last and what happens if the tree blows over in a storm? Hmmm...like the person above said, "green" is becoming too trendy. People are labeling things "eco-friendly" when in reality they're not even close.

  • Mr. Obvious · 10 months ago

    Yeah, that's great until a bird flies into it because it looks like open space. Suppose that will only happen once per day.

  • Beelo44 · 10 months ago

    Wow! This is truely amazing. They need to make these heavy duty, and send them out for the army.

  • tayler · 10 months ago

    holy cow!!!!!thats sick!

  • Unknown · 10 months ago

    Hmm our economy is going to the pits and were building tree houses.. great idea!...

  • clay · 10 months ago

    This would make a wonderfull hunting blind. I am sure there are thousands of hunters out there who will cash in on this idea. The Deer and Elk will not see this Blind for sure. You should be more carefull about showing the whole world things like this.

  • poohead · 10 months ago

    Would if animals climbed up it and cut themsevles from the glass?

  • Tammy · 10 months ago

    Whooaaa...Too Much!

  • Jessica · 10 months ago

    Welll... what happens when birds keep flying into the sides and die because they think it's WIDE OPEN SPACE!!!!!! ??

  • Bob · 10 months ago

    I was thinking of the trees around it. In the picture you can see they are getting a big blast. Ever have a giant mirror shined in your face?

  • Mark · 10 months ago

    Dumb.

  • Will T. · 10 months ago

    That has to be the most moronic idea I've seen yet!



    I agree with others posting, this is nothing more than something to try and make cash off of.

  • president bush · 10 months ago

    i didnt see no problamo with the tree house? birds are smart they'll adapt and they wouldnt build somthing that would be hazardous to the enviroment because there would be protest and GOD BLESS THE U.S.A

  • Yasu · 10 months ago

    Wow its amazing, but the proble of these glass wallings is that bird that thinks he/she can pass through that glass, will resulted from thier death because of the heads on collission! I am sure you will be collecting birds corpses everyday below your tree house made of glass

  • Paul · 10 months ago

    Good luck picking up all the dead birds. Low impact design, eh?

  • Robert Eames · 10 months ago

    I think a tree house like this is great for being almost invisible, I do however wonder if anyone gave thought to all the birds that will crash into it at full speed and break there little necks.

  • Babble · 10 months ago

    Wow... "it looks like the architects have pulled it off successfully."



    Although a mirrored cube could be built without visible fasteners to make this kind of thing work, I'm certain the actual cube once built would not look even as good as this. and this is a really bad 2 minute Photoshop mock-up.



    I guess the "kitchen" is comprised of bottled water and a microwave?.... if you have a generator handy. Bathroom = bucket?



    This isn't a hotel, its a tree fort.

  • Kjrsten · 10 months ago

    My first thought was similar to what TBT wrote. This type of reflective structure is minimizing the bird population by the thousands each year!

  • jb · 10 months ago

    This is supposed to blend in with its surroundings? The walls are made of glass and refelctive film and who knows what materials inside. Here's an idea... to blend a treehouse in with its surroundings, how about you make it out of wood?

  • Agus Kurniawan · 10 months ago

    I wonder how many birds crashed into this thing later on :)

  • Brittney · 10 months ago

    I think it could be pretty harmful to the environment,



    but I disagree with all the negative comments. For



    example, If a bird was plying toward it, it would



    see it's reflection in the glass. Unless it was really



    stupid, I don't think it would fly into the structure. It



    would most likely just become curious and check it



    out, which would provide knowledge of the



    treehouse being there, so later the bird would



    know to watch out for it. I think this project is



    creative, although I would like it better if the



    materials were more eco-friendly.

  • Alan Williamson · 10 months ago

    The hell with the tree what about all those birdies about to break their necks crashing into what they thin kis the horizon

  • Britt · 10 months ago

    This would make a great deer stand.

  • Hayley. · 10 months ago

    Won't that hurt birds when they fly into the semi invisible tree house?

  • Adam · 10 months ago

    Ah the poor birds.Gimme a break.That's an awesome treehouse.The birds,LMFAO!

  • Greg · 10 months ago

    Like I know... Like... Like this is so so serious... get a grip.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    isn't this dangerous for birds who may fly into it?

  • Carlin · 10 months ago

    These images simply appear to be a CGI renderings. These images are not of an actual structure.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I think its really cool of those people to make a

    almost invisible treehouse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Joe Rioux · 10 months ago

    BAD IDEA.



    What is to stop birds from accidentally flying into it, idiots!?



    How is causing injury and brain damage to countless birds an improvement?

  • Jerry · 10 months ago

    Awesome, I stumbled on this story on yahoo and followed the link. Is there some where to see what the comfort level of the model is going to be?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    thats cool!

  • greg · 10 months ago

    all the critism is spot on. yes birds will die..yes it isnt really any "greener" then any other tree house, yes its a meaning less bit of BS....but...it is AWESOME! look at that...that is cool as hell.

  • Giorgio Carlevaro · 10 months ago

    I am glad More people feels the same way. Really, what about the wild life crashing into those "pretty glass walls".

    Rule number one: never introduce a new elements in natural environments.

  • Brian Monroe · 10 months ago

    Cool for the environment, sucks for birds.

  • ichie bottoms · 10 months ago

    what about the sun reflections... two words! BLIND SQUIRRELS!!! ...not very green people!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    The bird issue is very important! Also, wouldn't the glare from the reflecting sunlight cause problems as well, especially on very hot, sunny, dry days???

  • Paul · 10 months ago

    This would be a great tree stand for hunting deer...

  • Rodrigo · 10 months ago

    BIG MISTAKE !!! Birds will crash and die ! and who knows how many other creatures will be desorientated by it.

    Even the reflection of the sun could cause a wildfire during summer after a dry winter.

    Where common sense has gonne and how can you use enviromental propaganda for such selfish proyect.

  • Anomynous · 10 months ago

    This is not green in the least, but its something that boosts our own pride as a human. It is unimportant, and stupid, but its a symbol that one day, humans will deny all physics, that we can keep growing and will keep growing. This is just an cube with mirrors on the outside, but it is a symbol for much much more. Even if I don't agree that this is the best way to spend thousands of dollars, it still is a achievement whether I would like to admit it or not. However, what it's doing on this site is a mystery...

  • Kyle · 10 months ago

    People, the fact that it isnt "good" for the environment is basically an invalid point. In all truth, humans in general are not good for the environment, we chop down trees and pollute water and air all the time, glass in a tree isnt anything different from what we do with a regular glass door or window connected to your home. i honestly think its not the greatest thing, but its different and thats all news media looks for, things that pop to the glancer, you looked at it, thats all they wanted, they probably dont care about it as much as it seems. the fact is someone came up with the idea, thats all.

  • Art · 10 months ago

    Yeah birds would be the ,pst surprised when flying nearby...

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    how many birds will die as they fly into this stupid idea.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    how many birds will die as they fly into this stupid idea.



    poetry man

  • KBR · 10 months ago

    Its simply amazing how ignorant architects continue to be about the environmental problems caused by the rampant use of reflective glass. Hundreds, literally hundreds of birds will probably be killed flying into the reflections they see in this single structure every year - placed appropriately in the woods where it can to the absolutely maximum amount of killing. Most birds are completely clueless about glass and just like the coyote in the roadrunner cartoons they really do fly full speed into images that aren't what they seem to be - and usually die doing it. The estimates are that 100 million birds die this way in the US every year!

  • Josh · 10 months ago

    The idea, although exhibiting some of the mannerisms of art, isn't actually a feasible idea. Firstly, did the architects take into account the sustained weight factor and how even just two average sized adults in there, over time, might cause the whole thing to break from whatever is fastening it to that tree? Also, it's not a feasible solution to the idea of introducing tourists to nature. Will the hotel chain consist of a series of these dotting the forest? What about power lines, generators, the cost to heat them, the cost to maintain the mirrored look (which is the only plus I see at this point), and the presumption that now large chains can reach into the forests because they're 'green'. To the architects: It's an interesting piece of art. To the endorsers: It's not feasible. And to the skeptics: You're right.

  • patchtig · 10 months ago

    I bet there are alot of dead birds on the ground from flying into it.

  • DENVER · 10 months ago

    good job. Better if build a mirror house on an urban place and plant trees all around it

  • KBR · 10 months ago

    Its simply amazing how ignorant architects continue to be about the environmental problems caused by the rampant use of reflective glass. Hundreds, literally hundreds of birds will probably be killed flying into the reflections they see in this single structure every year - placed appropriately in the woods where it can to the absolutely maximum amount of killing. Most birds are completely clueless about glass and just like the coyote in the roadrunner cartoons they really do fly full speed into images that aren't what they seem to be - and usually die doing it. The estimates are that 100 million birds die this way in the US every year!

  • james Murray · 10 months ago

    well ithink its a kool idea if you would like to get away from everthing this is the place to go. Who cares is a couple of birds die in the process we have millions of birds anyway.

  • Jimbo Jimbob Jimbobby · 10 months ago

    This is totally outrageous, this abomination is going to lead to the death of as many as six birds over the course of the next century! This is unconscionable!!! Furthermore, I am tired of this trend in society of the ever increasing popularity of green living, which of course would be the only real way to ever fix the horrible problem this planet faces...to make environmentalism cool, because what are me and my hipster friends supposed to talk about and judge other people upon now that all the yuppies have stolen our issue?!?!?!? This is terrible!!!!

  • RD · 10 months ago

    it looks nice from the outside, but who would like to live in a windowless box?

  • J · 10 months ago

    This is really what u guys are spending our money on? Noone needs anything like this and if they do well then they have to much money to spend and need to be using that money for the greater good. Not some stupid invisible treehouse. Poor Birds Too.

  • Linda · 10 months ago

    I don't supposed the architects/designers even took into consideration the bird collisions and deaths that this structure will cause. Millions of birds die each year from collisions with glass: on homes, on skyscrapers, and yes--eventually on this tree house. Shame on you all!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Imagine this could of been a deadly use for it in Guerilla warfare or Nam.

  • Fatternanny · 10 months ago

    If you're worried about birds crashing into it ..have a proximity sensor that ejects a mini-airbag :)



    safe!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    won't birds die from flying into it???

  • amazed · 10 months ago

    wow :)

  • al · 10 months ago

    makes no sense.... sumome email me. bored or message me at yahoo.. al2012

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Ditto on bird deaths. This post is a total failure.

  • Not_A_Troll_I_Swear · 10 months ago

    For the love of Anubis, calm the fuck down. Its not like anybody gives a shit if one or two birds die. Fuck the environment. I'll be dead by the time that any negative effects start to affect me. So, My credo is to fuck it up as much as I can for the next generation. They had it coming anyway.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    think about this tree hugers, what hapens when there is a blue sky, what happens when the light isnt the same as it is casted on the tree dddduuuuuu?????

  • quamiera · 10 months ago

    that is so cool and where is the pool

  • Kim · 10 months ago

    Wow. Birds already fly into windows, what do you think THIS will do to them? GREAT JOB! *SARCASM*

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    cool

  • Leigh · 10 months ago

    It seems like there would be a high impact on the environment once you count all the birds that will die flying into it. Not the best idea I've ever seen... actually more on the idiotic side. Who would want to stay in that?

  • insight · 10 months ago

    this wont really go anywhere, it is just a basis, an example, something to do, a intellectual primitivism, definitely not for those who reject evolution :)

  • D. Tiger · 10 months ago

    This would make an aaaawsome deer hunting tree stand whoop whoop!

  • Kira Yustak · 10 months ago

    Many birds will fly into this. I rented a cabin by a lake in the woods with a large picture window which was very reflective. I was disturbed by the amount of birds crashing into the window daily. I felt horrible.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    yes o yes

  • Julianna · 10 months ago

    I dont see how this is in any way eco-friendly. hello, urban sprawl???people should let animals and nature be. why do we have to live among them and disturb their lives? we should focus on cleaning up our urban areas. these kind of projects are only for the elite upper class. a glass treehouse in the woods? give me a break!!

  • GabachoMike · 10 months ago

    At least it would make a GREAT deer blind during hunting season!

  • Marc · 10 months ago

    What about the birds flying into the mirrored treehouse. Will PETA have a problem with that? How about the other confused critters? Will need to set up an advisory board to review prior to issueing a permit.. This is just plain dumb!!!!

  • Hollywood · 10 months ago

    this club house will do more damage to a tree then nature.

  • Abi · 10 months ago

    From an architectural perspective, while aesthetically appealing, the overall design is seriously problematic. For starters, one of the basic neccesities in any abode is a BATHROOM. Of course, since this building is supported only by a tree in it's center, adding the neccesary plumbing would destroy the idea completely. Then again, a ladder would be a good idea too, since it doesn't seem at all plausible without one. If this had been presented in my studio, it would not have passed.



    It would seem however that the architects focused almost completely on aesthetic presentation, which they achieved without a doubt.

  • Julianna · 10 months ago

    I dont see how this is in any way eco-friendly. hello, urban sprawl???people should let animals and nature be. why do we have to live among them and disturb their lives? we should focus on cleaning up our urban areas. these kind of projects are only for the elite upper class. a glass treehouse in the woods? give me a break!!

  • Wayne · 10 months ago

    Big bomb here.

    The whole structure of this overpriced treehouse rests on the survival of a tree that surely must be compromised by the structure it is now saddled with.

  • Sphire Ziemia · 10 months ago

    Umm...I don't see how the box of mirrored crap attaches to the tree without causing it harm. Glossed over that huh? Tree hugger design my butt! How in the heck do you get into the thing, where do you go to the bathroom and how often do you have to clean up bird bodies from around it? Stupid rich people.

  • md3g · 10 months ago

    yeah i dont see any ladder but if you observe the blue prints and the picture itself.

    you should notice something like a bridge i think

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Its so beautiful and lifelike that BIRDS are going to fly INTO it and hurt themselves - It makes me sad.....

  • bg · 10 months ago

    Interesting concept but another waste of time effort

  • Rich · 10 months ago

    What about the tree, yea the branches you had to remove, and did you think of the impact of more weight on the tree, and what about the new light that the plants are going to recive, this will chang the balance of that part of the forest!. yeep another good $$#@# idea from green peace, if sombody with money did this you would be all over them with your little pickets and followers chanting something stupped like your hurting the tree?

  • sara · 10 months ago

    It's a neat idea, but did they ever stop to think about the birds. Think about how many birds are going to be flying thinking that they are flying in free space and then BAM they run into the house. Think about how many birds are going to die by this. Me personaly find it sad, but yet at the same time find it rather funny.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i think that it is a waste of time to build such a thing. I mean, it is just a treehouse/hotel that nobody would like to stay in!!! It is a tight space, and birds are going to die. I wouldn't be surprised if they spent more times cleaning up the dead birds than building the thing. The good architects in the world should spend their time building more important things like, skyscrapers, and ACTUAL HOTELS!!!!!!!

  • Goethe Girl · 10 months ago

    To judge by the above comments, environementalists are the most tight-assed, humor-challenged, peevish, disapproving people in America. Get a life! The tree house is a lovely piece of ingenuity, but then you love birds more than people.

  • mike · 10 months ago

    who cares

  • timothy leverett · 10 months ago

    great for hunting i love it

  • se · 10 months ago

    wwwwwwwwwoooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww

  • Janiece · 10 months ago

    I have to agree with most of the comments. Other than being a novelty of sorts and perhaps an upscale camping shelter, this piece seems to serve very little purpose.



    It continues to amaze me that people often cannot see the difference between something that benifits the environment (or at least does not harm it) and something that merely blends in or aesthetically assimilates nature.



    Aside from that, one cannot help notice that this bulky fixture will undoubtedly cause at least some harm to the forest habitat.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    would be a great deer stand during hunting season

    not to sure about the kitchen but the sleeping area is a good idea can i get one with motion sensors around the base of the tree with a light that blinks when a deer walks up to my feeders ? haha anyone want some deer jerky YUM YUM

  • Janiece · 10 months ago

    I have to agree with most of the comments. Other than being a novelty of sorts and perhaps an upscale camping shelter, this piece seems to serve very little purpose.



    It continues to amaze me that people often cannot see the difference between something that benifits the environment (or at least does not harm it) and something that merely blends in or aesthetically assimilates nature.



    Aside from that, one cannot help notice that this bulky fixture will undoubtedly cause at least some harm to the forest habitat.

  • Janiece · 10 months ago

    I have to agree with most of the comments. Other than being a novelty of sorts and perhaps an upscale camping shelter, this piece seems to serve very little purpose.



    It continues to amaze me that people often cannot see the difference between something that benifits the environment (or at least does not harm it) and something that merely blends in or aesthetically assimilates nature.



    Aside from that, one cannot help notice that this bulky fixture will undoubtedly cause at least some harm to the forest habitat.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i think that it is a waste of time to build such a thing. I mean, it is just a treehouse/hotel that nobody would like to stay in!!! It is a tight space, and birds are going to die. I wouldn't be surprised if they spent more times cleaning up the dead birds than building the thing. The good architects in the world should spend their time building more important things like, skyscrapers, and ACTUAL HOTELS!!!!!!!

  • Ar · 10 months ago

    Score for TBT (comment number two)! Because all creatures know to check trees in the forest to see if they've got boxes on them. And I also agree with Corey (comment number five). Oh, my gosh-a tree house made out of mirrors! How spectacular! I know eight year-olds who have enough brain power to build one of those.

  • Johann · 10 months ago

    These are actually surprisingly easy to spot in the wild due to the rectangular heap of concussed birds surrounding the tree.

  • usnavyairborne · 10 months ago

    Low "impact" on nature? I doubt the birds will agree. I suspect there are a number of them laying dead below each "hotel room." They don't get along well with solid objects up high, they can't see

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i think that it is a waste of time to build such a thing. I mean, it is just a treehouse/hotel that nobody would like to stay in!!! It is a tight space, and birds are going to die. I wouldn't be surprised if they spent more times cleaning up the dead birds than building the thing. The good architects in the world should spend their time building more important things like, skyscrapers, and ACTUAL HOTELS!!!!!!!

  • pyro · 10 months ago

    awsome tree stand for deer. they will never see it coming

  • WARREN · 10 months ago

    IT is all good, sorta like hide n go seek this would be great to use on documentry work in the wild, one clown said it would hurt the birds, so. talk about a sissy, geeez this is a great idea, now just add a solor panel to use a freg or heat, drill a hole for the ladies to use at night, and your good to go, let me know where i can buy one.

  • Jacob Robertson · 10 months ago

    "Rule number one: never introduce a new elements in natural environments."



    Well if you go by that rule, then we might as well be dead.

  • deladyBex · 10 months ago

    Humm what an idea that has to be fixed. It is ingenuis,, but i can it have some sort of alert for the wild life around it ? , if they thought long and hard on it they could come up with an idea for animal protection as well as human comfort. ---

  • jeg · 10 months ago

    Haha! Im sure Tham and Videgard Hansson were wishing for good comments to become rich dudes.



    Sadly the birds and squirrels would'nt agree!



    Come on lads. Boycott this project!! Send it to hell!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I am curious how many birds do you hear hit the side of that each day?

  • BadJoeRed · 10 months ago

    I wonder how many birds are going to break their faces on that thing.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It is gorgeous but it is totally unethical to create something in a natural environment that will kill birds. As for the person who said birds do not fly into mirrored glass, there is a sad collection of dead birds under mirrored glass buildings in Chicago that would seem to debunk your comment. Sorry, I would love to love this gorgeous design but it's a killer.

  • Donny · 10 months ago

    This would be a really cool deer hunting tree stand !!! I may even try it here on my property. Deer, the original free range organic meat.

  • kupo. · 10 months ago

    cool.



    im sure theres not a lot of birds hitting those hotels, cause theres people around, they won't get closer and stuff.. so, i think this treehouse are a brilliant idea..

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Wow.........you have to hand it to the Swedish, they made a box

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    who cares about birds this thing is awsome beside their r so many things to keep birds away

  • johndoe91269 · 10 months ago

    sorry to say mirrors in a tree are ugly, and greenwashing

  • anon · 10 months ago

    I think windows are worse for birds. With a mirror they should be able to see themselves coming...

  • henry · 10 months ago

    How is this no impact? What about birds flying into it. this is just rediculous

  • Nick Gurr · 10 months ago

    This is an awesome hunting cabin! Thanks TreeHuggers!

  • awsome tree house · 10 months ago

    awsome treehouse itll be cool if you make ladders that blend in with the tree that will be amazing wow i hope my parents could take me there one day.....

  • yolanda sandoval · 10 months ago

    not for the closter phobic. haha!!

    i bet its expensive as F too! whatever happened to popping a tent and laying on a sleeping bag. ah...the good ol days. :D

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    that is lame and im 12 years old i know whats cool and whats not and thats not and whats with the dead birds

  • Anne · 10 months ago

    If it is a mirror - wouldn't the bird see itself before flying into itself? Duh.................... either way - it's a bit lame - there are no windows to enjoy the surroundings unless its a two way mirror....still lame.

  • ROBERT · 10 months ago

    I'm in the military and there are so many possiblities to this militarily from hiding locations of sensitive buildings in the battle zone to hiding troops behind fictious walls.

  • Ryan · 10 months ago

    Think one minuet you're a bird flying along through the woods... you decide to land in a tree when the next thing you know you hit a solid invisible wall and you're dead on the ground. what is this? it's more of a nusence than anything. all it's going to accomplish is a pile of dead birds on the ground

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Do you know how many birds are going to die when flying into this?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    if the walls are reflective, won't the birds see their reflection and not fly into it?...just wondering

  • DKoo · 10 months ago

    Do you know how many birds break their necks by flying into these mirrored buildings and structures? This structure will certainly make that happen. I have personally witnessed at least three birds died this way by flying into an office window in the past few years.

    I don't count this as an example of successful design.

    DK

  • DeerHunter · 10 months ago

    Yesm it would be great for hunting. I think the birds will not be an issue. Put some salt underneath it.

  • jhlnyc · 10 months ago

    I hope the people who thought this up aren't busy thinking up something else.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I love the idea! Thats fantastic, wish i can have a house like that in the near future. This article really captured my attention because its totally awesome.

  • intel · 10 months ago

    I nominate this for the best new hunting blind 2009!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Definitely NOT eco-friendly. Building a house for the animals would be more eco-friendly.

  • Jayne · 10 months ago

    As a hotelier for over 25 years, I am not sure how guest friendlyt this hotel would be...of course no bath is a huge issue, also I am not sure climbing a ladder to get in would be of interest to the guest who arrives at midnight into the middle of the woods.... I can see the guest complaints now...I think it is difficult to give directions to guest to hotels that sit right off major highways...hmm..this would really be a challenge

    creative idea but practical NOT...I can not see a Hilton or Marriott selling franchises for this brand...unless of course you are selling rooms to the monkeys, and their form of payment is not with an AMEX card .

  • Hippie Frong · 10 months ago

    How brilliant! Another stupid, dumb, and pointless idea from the achritects who claim to be "eco-friendly" most people would say that this thing wouldn't harm a fly. But yet it's still going to kill birds and maybe other critters who live there. I may only be a 5th grader but I actually care about what's going to happen to the enviroment! And yet people are making up even more stupid ways to probably get more money! But then people won't even want to stay in it. Reasons, maybe because there will be dead birds lying all over the ground also because there is no ladder to get up and down! Then, it's a crammped space with no bathroom. You tell me, how brilliant is this stupid invention?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    How about if we need the tree for the lumber ? I hope you can sleep inside, from the wind blowing the tree around.

  • Meatysaurus · 10 months ago

    Don't worry my little birdy lovers....all will be OK with them. Think about it.... Birds fly into windows because they are clear and they can't see them. However, this tree house has reflective glass that creates a reflection of the trees around it. This means that as the little birdy flies closer to it, its reflection will steer it away. It would be like flying into another bird and I think it's smarter than that.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I think, this would require a number of tension rods to keep the three from swinging especially during high winds. Remember wood is not that strong when it comes to tensile stress considering the weight you have to put in it. Also the surface area is increased due to the cube shape so the wind could act on it in any direction. Unless of course they put a damper in it to counteract the swaying which i doubt it will be a hell of a ride.

  • b. · 10 months ago

    a squirrel's dream house......

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It would be nice to see if (and how) the architects answered some of the more obvious concerns, i.e. the hi liklihood of birds striking the mirrored panels, the sustainability with plumbing and ingress/egress. Another concern centers on whether the tree can hold the anticipated weight over a period of time, that is unless it is not a real tree! DS

  • Maggie · 10 months ago

    I wonder if they thought about hiring a cleaning lady to wipe the pretty box off from birdies blood lol hopefully not, then there is a huge chance the animals will notice the thing if enough of them gets killed. Now, another idea - if a bird is approaching a mirror and sees itself, won't it try to avoid a crash like duck or something lol...

  • beloved358 · 10 months ago

    Kinda reminds me of putting out realistic plastic trees to save the environment. Futile and it still hurts the environment in many ways. Not a good idea in my opinion...this idea is especially for the birds! Dead that is...

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Yes, birds do fly into windows because they are clear. This thing is made of mirrors. How many times do birds fly into each other in mid air for anything other than mating? They would see themsleves flying and just think it is another bird and avoid themselves, and thus the mirror. THINK PEOPLE

  • gabo · 10 months ago

    i would agree most of the comments..



    its surely a nice concept..

    but it surely didnt consider a lot of things..

    like where's the toilet?

    im still wondering about the plumbing layout..

    how about the ventilation? theres not much windows..



    for me its most likely a kids tree house not a hotel or anything alike..



    anyways.. good work on it..

  • Kris · 10 months ago

    First thing i thought when i saw this was remove the mirrors and just make it camo..... Much better for the birds....

    And my second thought was this just looks like my deer stand.... Damn.... All I have to do is make a couple rooms and rent it out!!

  • wiredheart · 10 months ago

    WONDERFUL! Just what we need to do- Screw up more wild life by invading their habitat even more than what we already do. Where I live, we have built so many houses that our White tail deer population seems to almost match the human population now because we also have a no hunting allowed all year long in effect. It is not uncommon at dusk to see some lawns with 20 plus deer on them. Perhaps we should build houses out of highly polished strong mirrors so that the deer population could be handled properly? Seems every time we come up with GOOD? ideas we screw something else up

  • jeffo · 10 months ago

    so many comments about the birds....



    this is a pretty neat idea actually. I have a well-glazed house here in Seattle (lots of windows) and haven't had issues with birds and reflectivity (except for one not-very-bright bird)



    I would definitely stay in one of these rental rooms, given the opportunity, Being up high amongst the wildlife can be an amazing experience,



    so many 'greener than thou' posters on here.



    connecting people with nature is ALWAYS a good thing

  • Mike · 10 months ago

    Everyone of you are freaks!!!!!!!!!!!! For one who the hell cares about a bird flying into glass or a house or a shotgun spray? I heard just the other day about a bird blowing up an engine on a plane that flew into it. This actually happens all the time. I don't see any of you saying flying is a bad idea take all the planes out of the sky. Also when you go down the road in your cars, I don't hear any of you saying stop all cars take them off the road they kill so many deer, possum, rats, squirrels, and so on. I do not see any of you banning Windex which actually has a commercial that promotes birds flying into the windows of houses because it cleans them so well. I could go on and on and on all day but the point is all of you are just like the people in congress STUPID. You always will be.

    So turn your nose up at change so it gives your life some kind of meaning. Meanwhile I will stop entertaining all of you retards and live my life. F the birds kill em all. lol Weirdos

  • Joe · 10 months ago

    There are so many more important issues we face today to waste time not only creating a useless mirrored box and caling it ecofriendly, but covering it in the media. Good thing this is on the internet and not wasted on newspaper. People, get a life and do something useful!!

  • S nowick · 10 months ago

    LOL what a great idea lets catch the birds and eat them it will be lik i giant live trap some might even call it FAST food as for the no ladder post lets install a elevator in the tree GREAT idea huh sure u thought of it i mean the only one who will build this is some one with too much money anyway so lets for get the 40 billion average people this is just for those totall nut jobs .000001% of the population or for the stinking rich to show off to thier buddys so for me LOL gives u some thing to laugh at well im drinkin my beer.

  • Jess · 10 months ago

    This is cool! I dont believe the birds will fly into it because they will see there reflection and dodge it. which means it will swoop up until the image is gone and therefore miss the tree house. i am however worried about fires. As you can use a magnifying glass to start a fire. wouldn't a ray of sun start one when it bounces off the glass.

    It would be cool however to use this structure on the ground as a deer blind.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It's very surprising that no one else did any research on this before they commented. Especially the quote at the end of the article that the author didn't bother to check out first commenting on there being no bathroom or ladder. The design has a rope ladder (or rope bridge), and does have a bathroom.

  • sharm · 10 months ago

    guys i love the art and nature but if anything is hurt or killed in process is really is not worth the effort.we humans need to use our common sense and think of things around us and other users of the world...i do believe nature lovers will enjoy it very much but why hurt animals in process..i rather watch nature from the ground hidden from site...

  • Matthew · 10 months ago

    this would be great for hunting.

  • Nimali · 10 months ago

    Waste of money and a hazardous object for the animals surrounding it. What's the purpose of this structure anyway? These brilliant architects would be put to better use designing more innovative buildings for the actual cities we live in.

  • mike · 10 months ago

    I must first say that I live in the woods. I am not a cityfolk tree hugger. I have several acres of forest that i own and live on and preserve. I would not allow this design in my woods for several reasons. First of all, trees live and trees die...just like people. They may die from a bad windstorm, disease, drought, etc. If a tree were to die and fall down onto this glass tree house, the shards of glass would be ingested by and cut the paws and hooves of all the forest animals, including me and my kids. Secondly, wood is natures building material. Take a look at any bird nest or beaver dam or squirrel nest, etc.....they all have wood in them. Why not find a standing dead tree to cut down and slice the timber and build a tree house with it? The treehouse built out of wood could be coated with a natural linseed oil each year and it would last for years and years, and wood is a very good insulator against the cold. Once the treehouse is done being used, all the materials will rot and return itself to nature without damge to its surroundings. Who know's, it may even spawn more life in the forest after it deteriorates such as moral mushrooms.....which all animals, including me, love to find in the forest. Do not introduce anything into the forest that you cannot remove......includind shards of glass.

  • nancy · 10 months ago

    What about the tree? I don't know if anybody has mentioned this (I didn't read all comments). But I don't think the tree is very happy having thousands of pounds nailed, carved, somehow adhered to it's sides for eternity. I bet it's saying "Get it off me!!!"

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Okay you guys need to chill out about the bird.



    This is a piece of art. It is unbelievable.



    Look at the beauty of it, not the nonexistant dead birds.



    What has the world come to seriousl

  • Jonny · 10 months ago

    Wow, they managed to build a giant cube made out of mirrors. They must be geniuses!

  • Laura · 10 months ago

    Reminds me of the "Tower of Terror" ride at Disney - will come crashing down any minute. Come on, doesn't it look like an elevator? How does the thing stay up there, anyway? Superglue?

  • birdman · 10 months ago

    whoa..... imagine the carnage for any flying/swinging creature.



    if its a bird, a head-on crash, square into the glass, will smash its beak into its face. or if its beak is strong enough, the impact will leave the poor bird stuck in the glass wall, literally "hanging out" as your guest for the rest of the summer. a side-on crash (at the right-angled sharp edges) will nicely split the bird into two.



    if its a flying squirrel jumping from tree to tree, the impact will probably smash its front teeth into the back of its throat. it probably won't die too, but agonise the rest of its life without teeth to crack open another nut, thanx to our ingenious mr. architect here. a side-on impact will probably decapitate its head - an efficiently quick death, so maybe not such a bad thing for the designer of this glass crap.



    some birds or swinging creatures just don't have depth perception - the kind that runs into innovatively designed "green" glass treehouses!

  • Jack · 10 months ago

    I wonder how you find it? How do you get your food, water, ect to it? Do you use your battery operated GPS while crusin in on your four wheeler? How do you get the material there to build it? What happens in a hail storm? Is it insured? does the roof have a pitch and if so where does the reflection go?

  • Janine · 10 months ago

    It looks like the ladder rungs project directly from the enclosed treetrunk itself. Pretty effective use of material and space, i say. Although, I wouldn't exactly call this eco-friendly because of bird corpses...



    On a different note, very lovely architectural plans and sections.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    If the owner of the property wants this nutty thing for some reason , then it is none of my business or anyone else's .

    Tell the dummy , what he called a hanging bridge , may be power lines going to the contraption . I also think the whole thing could be fake photo work . Someone should be able to waste their money however they want on their own

    property . People do deserve some privacy on their own property , as long as it harms nobody else or anyone

    else's property . I see no harm at all in this , but it sure is nothing to crow about . ( MAX )

  • Manny · 10 months ago

    WHAT A BAD IDEA... This will kill more birds than anything else around. It should be taken down NOW.

  • joe · 10 months ago

    Who is worried about birds.....If people worried about humans like they did animals the world would be a better place.....

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    If the owner of the property wants this nutty thing for some reason , then it is none of my business or anyone else's .

    Tell the dummy , what he called a hanging bridge , may be power lines going to the contraption . I also think the whole thing could be fake photo work . Someone should be able to waste their money however they want on their own

    property . People do deserve some privacy on their own property , as long as it harms nobody else or anyone

    else's property . I see no harm at all in this , but it sure is nothing to crow about . ( MAX )

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Of course mirrors will make it blend into nature as long as it is in fact surrounded by nature. The reason why large buildings don't blend in is because they are surrounded by large buildings.

  • megan · 10 months ago

    So... what happens on a hot, sunny day and the mirror reflects enough to start a forest fire? Can't that happen?

  • Ryan · 10 months ago

    Yes, but how many birds will be able to see the forest through the trees...

  • mike · 10 months ago

    How is this eco friendly??

    It is going to be a major eyesore and hazardous to the environment. Far from being invisible like the artist rendering implies, it is going to be visible from miles away. ( that is why you carry a mirror as a survival tool when you hike in the wilderness, so you can be seen from great distances)

    Stupid and silly idea, common sense tells you it will not work and will be a waste of time and money.

  • Dave Tousignant · 10 months ago

    How many birds hit trees? To many coments on the birds hitting the tree house when they dont die from landing in tree's lol Some people just say anything to be heard even when it make's no sence.



    Dave

  • Austin personal trainers · 10 months ago

    Not fair, deer don't have a chance.

  • BS · 10 months ago

    If the tree house fell, and no one was around, would the glass breaking make noise?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i just wonder why it need to be invisible.....

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    what about the "mirror" starting a fire by reflecting sunlight? This is about as silly and moronic as ideas get. Keep trying.

  • Brittany · 10 months ago

    I'm not sure I understand...how do you get up there and where the heck's the door?!

    ...

    And how does it stay??? There aren't any support beams or anything. I'd be so frightened!

  • mike · 10 months ago

    How is this eco friendly??

    It is going to be a major eyesore and hazardous to the environment. Far from being invisible like the artist rendering implies, it is going to be visible from miles away. ( that is why you carry a mirror as a survival tool when you hike in the wilderness, so you can be seen from great distances)

    Stupid and silly idea, common sense tells you it will not work and will be a waste of time and money.

  • Rakumashi · 10 months ago

    personally; I think that the creator has a very impressive mind and skill on creating it however, this can be extreamely bad in more ways then one. I'm a person that loves animals and enjoys nature as it is, 1. Birds will fly into it mistakeingly and die 2. do you ever wonder that a criminal might be reading this?? honestly a crinimal will take advantage of this and hide out from cops!!! and futher more will cause harm to innocent people within the surrounding area. I really do like the fact that someone has an impressive idea such as building something invisable, but consider nautures safety!!! and the safety of other people!! Seriously if a criminal uses this to his advantage this it will be bad on both sides!! for nature and for other innocent people!!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    umm. the tree house says almost invisible. ALMOST! not invisible dip sticks. which means the birds will probably see it. i mean birds arent dumb creatures. i think this is pretty cool and all you negative people need to go shove your heads in a hole.

  • NENE · 10 months ago

    SO WE LIVE IN TREES NOW ????

  • Lemongrass · 10 months ago

    The problems are obvious. As others have said, dead birds and no bathroom. But who would be surprised? Despite what you might think, architecture isn't necessarily practiced in a reasonable and practical manner. This is clearly a piece by one of those conceptual jerks that feels his "artistry" is far more important than mundane considerations like "How do I get in it" and "Where do I poop?" Such things are for plebians, not for great ARTISTES like him.

  • Joner · 10 months ago

    wow thats a pretty cool tree house. i wish i was smart to when i was a kid to make an 'almost' invisable tree houes. thumbs up to who ever thought up the idea!

  • courtney · 10 months ago

    jeez... everyone is so negative... i thinks that it is pretty awesome... i wish i had something like that... and people there is a difference betweenclear and reflective. wouldn't the bird eventually c itself. and while i think it is invasive, i also thnk that having a few of these won't hurt and would be a cool place to stay... and there are so many othr problems too...like overpopulation, smog, and millions of othr thngs. i mean really half of u r prolly just wrtting this stuff cuz it is cool when reallly u don't care about the world and how u r DEFINETELY, just like the rest of us, eating, sleeping, throwing things away and contributing to the worlds current state

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Birds will die from this!

  • courtney · 10 months ago

    jeez... everyone is so negative... i thinks that it is pretty awesome... i wish i had something like that... and people there is a difference betweenclear and reflective. wouldn't the bird eventually c itself. and while i think it is invasive, i also thnk that having a few of these won't hurt and would be a cool place to stay... and there are so many othr problems too...like overpopulation, smog, and millions of othr thngs. i mean really half of u r prolly just wrtting this stuff cuz it is cool when reallly u don't care about the world and how u r DEFINETELY, just like the rest of us, eating, sleeping, throwing things away and contributing to the worlds current state

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    What about the flying squirels?

  • J.C. · 10 months ago

    This is very dumb! Anyone could of placed a camo box in a tree. What about the winter, are they gonna change the color to white? Also that tree house needs a dish, U gotta have a T.V. set if not then you start killing birds with a B.B gun. Ha ha ha. Well architects I'm glad you didn't design the Tashmahal, statue of liberty and my house.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    what about tarzan .. flying through the jungle .. he could easily smash into it

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    What about the drip line of the tree the structure is built around?

  • Frank · 10 months ago

    you guys arent seeing the big picture...lets say this catches on...soon thousands of eco-minded people will being migrating into the woods disturbing the peace. Added gas consumption...plus i cant picture a prius transporitn giant mirrors cross country...

  • JC · 10 months ago

    Wow.  Too many busy bodies that like to voice opinions that are based on a true lack on common sense.  Common sense demands that this is simply an awesome work or art, perhaps abstract in a sense and simply fun or just prooving a point.  Do you think that the guys that built this house believe that anybody and I mean anybody would dump money into a house in a single tree that will die sooner or later or get blown around.  Thats just retarded.  We are missing the message all together here.  Yes, I do agree that in real time, this would not work as a home or even a 2nd home and could be dangerous for a few animals.  It wouldn't take long for birds to build homes someplace ontop of this thing!! lol.  You know they would make light of it and just move into the new addtition to thier forest.  Birds have survived millions of years and have had much bigger threats that a glass house.  You could never ever insure the thing!  Its a giant lightning rod to say the least amoung other obvious structural challenges.  But hats off to the designers and thier true message.  ART!  Blending in and making something, anything, close to invisible.  Super cool and genious.  So relax and see it for what it was meant to be!  Just my two cents!JC

  • Sidney · 10 months ago

    Wow, some people are dumb. Birds don't fly into reflective surfaces because the can't see it, The fly into it because they are drunk. All the malts and seeds that they eat ferment in they're stomach and their vision gets disordered.



    On a normal bases, a bird can see UV rays of of anything reflective, this includes anything from your windshield to your fingernails. That's why you car has bird poop on it, not dead bird.





    Also, I'm pretty sure the GLEAMING morning sun would ward of other animals AND I'm pretty sure humans belong in nature too, seeing as to though we classify as ANIMALS.



    (by the way, the house has some bugs it needs to fix.)

  • Pat · 10 months ago

    Uh, ya the birds will love you for it. Not!

  • Sam · 10 months ago

    that is so freakin cool

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Green Washing at its finest..greatest example was the "Hummer comment" if you mirror the hummer is that in the category of sustainable. This is part of the problem, confusing the message to the average consumer of what is Green/Sustainable. Green is becoming such an overused word it lacks crediblility. I ran across a site that is quite informative for the average consumer on Green/Sustainability-www.greenisdead.org. Contains some interesting blogs and articles with an emphasis on educating the average consumer with the right information.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    id be a little negative about this one.. it's nice that you've thougth about this kind of idea.. but it wouldn't be safe if kind of architectural work will be applied in greater bounds.. like making a skyscaper out of this glasses.. it is not safe for those who are working in planes.. i dont kow how to express my idea but i hope you would understand and hear me.. thank you...

  • KC · 10 months ago

    Green Washing at its finest..greatest example was the "Hummer comment" if you mirror the hummer is that in the category of sustainable. This is part of the problem, confusing the message to the average consumer of what is Green/Sustainable. Green is becoming such an overused word it lacks crediblility. I ran across a site that is quite informative for the average consumer on Green/Sustainability-www.greenisdead.org. Contains some interesting blogs and articles with an emphasis on educating the average consumer with the right information.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I am having trouble believing this is real??? like are they serious?



    people seem to get crazier and crazier ideas

  • Alexander · 10 months ago

    A very clever idea, but your a right - a very slow flash. They should improve their web site perfomance.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I am having trouble believing this is real??? like are they serious?



    people seem to get crazier and crazier ideas

  • Auddy! · 10 months ago

    hi! Deanna is so cool! hhahahahaha

  • Beth · 10 months ago

    When I saw this, the first thing I thought was, "Oh my God, I can't imagine how many birds are going to die like bugs on a wind shield." It's gorgeous, but i think for it to "not harm the environment"... it should be visible!!! STUPID!!!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    The tree house is made of reflective glass which probably means the birds will see themselves; they'll think it's another bird and take evasive action before they bang into them.

  • Levi Stedham · 10 months ago

    What about the tree it is attached to. What happens to it? A person or persons living in a little box on a tree will not effect the tree?How do you hang it there gravity is some times a pain. Where do you use the bathroom.Do we have electricity. What happens with say a short and burns down the whole Forrest. No candles please. Should have a big no smoking sign out front. What do you do with you're car. Oh no car. I get it! Good luck to the first owners. Hope for you're sake the store is close.

  • sarah · 10 months ago

    Lol, it would be kind of bad for the birds in that forest thinking they are flying through the forest then colliding into something in mid air, but i still think its really cool. I would love to sleep in something like that....I would definitely do it if giving the option!

    double kuddos! :)

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    When I get drunk I can'tfind my regular hotel room, imagine this one!!!

  • Neil · 10 months ago

    Oh jeez.. the birds, the birds... you hypocrit environmentalists should go look in a mirror.. or go find a treehouse and look at it. Then ask yourself... do i really think birds are going to hit a freakin mirror box on a tree?



    Go complain to your moms and shut up about the damn birds.. I bet you all voted for Obama and Bush.. you freakin sheep.

  • jerry tree · 10 months ago

    this is absolutely beautiful! www.treehugger.com is a great site

  • Rob · 10 months ago

    where the hell's the plumbing for the aforementioned kitchen area? and how can such a thin pine tree support so much weight?

  • carpe_deim2004 · 10 months ago

    This is a deer blind...hello! And quite a good one. If I were a dear hunter I'd be on this concept.

  • SarahBee · 10 months ago

    In five years just one mirrored builiding in Chicago killed 20,000 birds. Clearly the designer were not thinking of the environmental impact of their "tree-hugging" hotel. Seems like all their interested in is money!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I am going to go chop down a tree to celebrate this monstrosity.

  • Beast · 10 months ago

    This is insanly cool. I don't really know how this is usefull in any way shape or form, but it is cool none the less.

  • Bill H · 10 months ago

    Seems like you could save some money and have less impact on nature (shattered glass is hard to clear off the forest floor) by printing off a picture of the forest and using it as a mural on each side of the treehouse. Birds are more likely to see it as a flat surface and planes are less likely to think it's a signal for help.

  • Jamer · 10 months ago

    First of all every one who commented on this is ignorant for a number of reasons, first off the reason birds hit sky scrapers is because they reflect the sky, I have never seen a pigeon or any other bird smash into the first four or five stories of a building because then it reflects other buildings and the ground, (in this case other trees) nor would squirrels or other woodland creatures because they are territorial so the worst that would happen is they would try to scare their reflection with loud chattering so if you slept out you might have to get up a little early...

    secondly, its just a tree fort like you build in your back yard you aren’t going to live here... a bathroom is a little unnecessary and so is electricity, and lastly if you look closely at the bottom right of the reflected box you can see a number of lines going towards another tree this is a hall way which leads to a ladder down off another tree…

    In conclusion you are all morons and I probably wasted my time writing this to you Ignorant hippies.

  • john · 10 months ago

    I love how you guys are talking about birds crashing into it. But what nobody gets is that a bird is not going to run at full speed into what they think is a tree unless they already run full speed into real ones. I doubt that. Another thing is that a bird is going to decend its speed before landing on something unless they run full speed which i stated 2 sentences ago. So it doesnt do you guys any good to just use that excuse to negatively critisize something like this.

  • ali naci ulku · 10 months ago

    Human being 's going to change the balance in another way although it's quite smart.

  • Adam Chahin · 10 months ago

    Some birds dy hitting my window but this will kill alot more than that. This should be something seen by all birds but i guess if you want bird in the morning be my guest.

  • Ed · 10 months ago

    Great hunting blind for bow hunting & gun hunting

  • mike · 10 months ago

    ok, to all the people saying birds will fly into it, its a REFLECTIVE SURFACE, so you think the birds might be smart enough to see theirselves coming at it and get the idea "hey theres a bird i need to get out of the way"..... people just need to think before they speak

  • Rick · 10 months ago

    Unless you all start lobbying for countries like hong kong to make legislative changes. Climate changes will kill all your precious birds. Become a LEED AP and make changes instead of talking about them.

  • plantman · 10 months ago

    What happens to the poor birds that will fly into the glass? How cruel!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I hope they build five million of these things to kill all birds for all of you idiots that are saying "oh what about the poor little birds!!!"

  • Darrell · 10 months ago

    Well after reading all these comments I have come to the conclusion that the birds living in this area are a lot smarter than most of you birdbrains. Ha Ha! Get a life, just listen to your drivel.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    That's okay, I hate birds too!!!!!!!

  • Jamer · 10 months ago

    First of all every one who commented on this is ignorant for a number of reasons, first off the reason birds hit sky scrapers is because they reflect the sky, I have never seen a pigeon (a bird that should die any way) or any other bird smash into the first four or five stories of a building because then it reflects other buildings and the ground, (in this case other trees) nor would squirrels or other woodland creatures because they are territorial so the worst that would happen is they would try to scare their reflection with loud chattering so if you slept out you might have to get up a little early...

    secondly, its just a tree fort like you build in your back yard you aren’t going to live here... a bathroom is a little unnecessary and so is electricity, and lastly if you look closely at the bottom right of the reflected box you can see a number of lines going towards another tree this is a hall way which leads to a ladder down off another tree…

    In conclusion you are all morons and I probably wasted my time writing this to you Ignorant hippies.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Couldnt this also be a fire hazzard to the dry pine needles on the ground and I agree that birds and other animals will pay the price but it could also generate fire if the sun hit it just right.Really dumb,i dont believe these were architects i believe they were sensationalists with A.D.D.

  • carmen · 10 months ago

    I worked in a "mirror" building in Hollywood, it killed me everytime a bird crashed into it.....in the middle of the friggin city........come on, bring down the tree house it is the dumbest idea! Please, one time I watched a butterfly try to get around it for hours, I can only imagine what this would be like in the woods.



    All I can say is - - - - - idiots!

  • J · 10 months ago

    okay this is for the anonymous person who keeps talking about how the birds won't fly into it because they have depth perception and to Brittney. Birds aren't that smart. I know from first hand experience that birds will fly into this thing. I have two parakeets and both have flown into my bathroom and crashed into the mirror, luckily they were okay afterwards. the treehouse not good for the birds at all nor for squirrels. Squirrels jump from tree to tree and if they see this, they'll think it's a tree and try to jump for a limb, but instead of landing on a branch, they'll crash into the mirror.

  • Jack · 10 months ago

    Yeah and if you have two of these side-by-side, you not only be NOT see trees, you'd be seeing an infinite number of tree houses in the middle of the forest.



    Besides, why r birds so stupid as to crash into them? They may not be able to see the tree house, why don't they avoid the bird coming straight at them from the other side of the mirror?

  • C · 10 months ago

    UMMM...Hello...How many birds fly into big mirrored sky scrapers?? How many of you down town city folk walk around stepping on bird carcasses all day long?

  • faith · 10 months ago

    I think to most of us that not too crazy about the ideas of the tree house. I have news flash for you. If our countries bad economy "recession" is keeps going on most of us Americans will be leaving on the tree houses.



    And which tree houses would you prefer for yourself to use. When every countries are trying to invade us then.



    And for those architects that planning to waste their sweet time on making , planning, or building tree houses. I think we should all think twice besides eco-friendly on saving our natures preservative. Built it with cautions , we should respect the natures as they respected us. Cause the natures might come back to hunt you. ~wink~

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Looks like most of us had the same first thought. So I can't believe that it didn't occur to these architects that poor little birdies would fly right into this thing and bump their little beaks.

  • C · 10 months ago

    UMMM...Hello...How many birds fly into big mirrored sky scrapers?? How many of you down town city folk walk around stepping on bird carcasses all day long?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Birds will not fly into it. Birds may fly into clear glass, but not into mirrors, because they will se their reflection coming at them, and just like they don't fly into each other, they will pass by the house without knowing it was there (that's on a non-sunny day). Certainly, the bird issue was though of too. On a sunny day, birds and animals, and even people, will see a huge blaze in the center of the forest LOL. That would be pretty annoying if I was a bird but they'll just fly another way. It won't cause ny wild fires, because it is in the shape of a cube - all the faces are flat not round or bulging. But I don't even care about birds or all that. It is really dumb because it is very inconvenient: getting into it, getting out of it, space, etc. I thought they'll have something more massive with steps leading up into it, and other structures connecting water, electriciy, etc to it. I don't think they will make back the money they invested in it, which they probably hope to get from tourists.

  • MIKE · 10 months ago

    BIRDS DONT EVEN FLY BETWEEN TREES THEY FLY OVER THEM!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE HOW MUCH IDIOTS LIVE IN THIS WORLD!!!!!

  • Becky · 10 months ago

    Why is everyone saying the same thing? Okay, I get that it is a danger for birds who may collide with it. This is marketed as an eco-friendly hotel. They would not be very successful if there were a serious effect on the surrounding environment. They will adapt the structure so that it isn't as dangerous. And for whoever made the blind squirrels comment. Really? Squirrels blinded by sunlight is the big impact you're worried about these structures making?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    shut up about the damn birds already. This far into the posting, you're not the first to think it and post it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Very restful with the thuds of the birds

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Weird but beautiful.

  • Serendipity · 10 months ago

    While everyone "AGREES" about the poor birds flying into the "invisible treehouse"...one other concern would be as important or more so...



    The fact that reflective sunrays have a way of magnifying and heating things up. So, while the few here believe it's an "awesome treehouse", think of the issue of "forest fires" started by this lovely piece of art. Similar to a magnifying glass as the sun's rays shine on objects.



    If anyone lives in the city, they can surely identify with the "reflective blindness" caused at any given time of the day (while driving) by these buildings made the same way.



    We have enough waste of our natural resources without adding some usless piece of "treehouse/hotel art" to Mother nature's allready "perfect creations".



    Just my two cents worth.



    Save the birds and the forests!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Hey, looks like it will kill a lot of birds.



    Plus, there's no ladder ot toilet.



    Just wanted to point that out, in case no one did already.

  • VirgoCE · 10 months ago

    this is ridiculus..you'll need a fake tree for this crazy craftwork. It won't be eco-friendly at all. Chance is big for the tree to collapse and die for the load. Where is the concern for environment here..the design is the biggest crap I now. Trees continue growing and I don't think it won't grow as tall as what is in the pics.. Loggers will cut it(because it's almost unseen..hahahaha!) for use in building a much better house

  • Zemki · 10 months ago

    Reading over most posts, its truly saddening at the attention that one topic gets from two opposing sides. The structure itself doesn't appeal to me so I personally don't care for it much. But since someone wanted it and is now planed or already built there will be a few more buying it. New market, new source of income for people who will get jobs building these things.



    In case no one reading has realized, the box is only another creation by the wants and desires that exist only because of human society. Face up to it, with out human society, governments, or even high level thought patterns unique to humans, this would have never even been thought of by the smartest individual. Think about that all of you who think of only yourself and not the consequences of your own actions. None of the stuff around you would not exist if no one could think past basic needs and survival (without even the most primitive of housing).



    As for the nature enthusiasts, think of this: The shelter that you live in, the computer you must obviously be using to see and respond to this thread, the electricity and every thing else around you, all of it, made and created from things that humans have taken from or destroyed nature to obtain in the first place. In reality if you give a moment thought to it, unless you yourself are out running around on plains, in forests, ect. then you too are negatively impacting that which you are trying to protect and help.



    So overall the structure is unnecessary overall, in that it does not help progress us all toward a more advanced state. Its just for fulfilling the wants or desires of a few.

  • Barbiecakes · 10 months ago

    BIrDs,BirDs,BiRdS,bIrDs,BiRDs,BirDs,BirdS,BiRDS,BirDS,Birds,Birds,Birds

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    This is a great idea very sustainable put a net underneath to catch all the dead birdies, and viola!

    free food. And for the need of a bathroom your up high just go out the window.

  • Fabby Adams · 10 months ago

    Awesome Idea. Animals cdnt see you in that house but you can see everybody. Wao great idea. I worthlessly installed huge mirrors in my bathroom. I wd saw this art before. Yes I am serious coz I have lots of grown +50' trees in my backyard.

  • nbeachninja · 10 months ago

    Hmmm... says the deer hunter in me...

  • Deer-Hugger · 10 months ago

    Hey, this is the best idea ever! Has anyone considered the possibilities during hunting season? Those little critters won't have a clue what is coming. I can sip on my appletini and slay wildlife at the same time. What will you guys think of next.

  • bob · 10 months ago

    They need to put the UV tape on the glass panels to prevent the birds from flying into the tree house. The birds can see the UV spectrum but it appears transparent to us humans (same kind of tape they use in the bowling alleys for black lights)

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    excuse me but isnt this idea dangerous for the birds and other wild life that are habitants of this surrounding?

  • julian · 10 months ago

    I worry about the poor animals that may bump into the tree house. Pretty dangerous to them, ain't it?

  • manny · 10 months ago

    dude that is freaking awesome im makeing one in like 2 days with my dad its going to look just like that and everything with alll tha extra stuff in the inside and stuff. dude i love lmao

  • badz · 10 months ago

    batia ana uie!!!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    man, that would make an amazing hunting blind, just cut a few holes for shootin n ya would be set

  • spanky · 10 months ago

    That definitely tops the list of dumb-ass projects. So where is the treehugger scoreboard for bird crashes? Please post a pic...

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    wouldn't this be dangerous in a storm and quite stressfull on the tree!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It'd be a pity if some kids went by and threw rocks at it.

  • taylor · 10 months ago

    NO BATHROOM! what were they thinking? I've had 2 go in the wilderness before and it is not very fun let me tell u that! i can do without a ladder but i draw the line at having to use the bathroom outside. it's extremely unsanitary! i don't know if people are praising this or bashing it because i didn't read the other comments but I'm really against things like this not matter how good they are for the environment. plus number two makes a great mulch so plants would grow better if there was a bathroom in the thing! doesn't anybody know that? it's basic earth science people! get your head in the game!

  • roberto · 10 months ago

    perfect!!!!

    awesome!!!!.....man was created to be intellectual....

  • bella · 10 months ago

    wow this is awesome design... it can be a little dangerous for the animals there ,, but its already built .. in the future it should be build somewehre where theyre arent any animals or as many animals as there might be here

    but stil very nice and beautifully thought out

    i cant believe you guys can build this

    how did you even think of it ??

    its very amazing theres no word for it

    i want to know is it a hotel ?? becuase thats what the tiltle is ?? or is just like a little tree house ?/

    anyways once AGAIN good job and i hope you guys make something like this again !! :))

    :DD :PP

  • JAck · 10 months ago

    Seriously Birds are gonna run into that thing thinking its thin air...

  • jason M. · 10 months ago

    OMG, we have pita here and a few druids to boot. If you have a better solution please offer it instead of complaining all the time. Must be from pita. I bet you wear cotton t-shirt and shorts and other things made from animals or use chemicals tested on animals.. Other then that. Wonderful artwork and outstanding thinking in the designers mind. I wish I had that kind of thought to be able to do the same. Enough of the bad spat... either get a life or get with the program. J~

  • NDN · 10 months ago

    If only Mothernature had internet...

  • Cathy · 10 months ago

    The one thing that puzzles me is that tree doesn't look big enough nor strong enough to support the weight of the structure or someone in it.

  • Neesh_phil · 10 months ago

    stop destroying the nature! it doesn't even help to stop global warming! seriously!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    stupid tree huggers, guns are cool and shooting poor animals is to.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I hope whoever stays in this is prepared for the many animals that will be prowling around below....snatching up all the dead birds, squirrels and chipmunks! Great idea...I know I want to stay in it! lol

  • Arod0t · 10 months ago

    I think it will provide plenty of bird meat to survive on. Does it have a 220v freezer inside? You will need it for all that bird meat. How about a deep fryer? Nuggets sound good. What ever would you do with so many feathers?

  • Michael · 10 months ago

    I think this tree might be a spent uranium rod......now we know what they do with them!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    JOB OPPURTUNITY Dead bird removal, no experiance nessasry, live on premisses, 40 hours a week with lot's of over time, make your own hours, we pay piece work, a buck a bird.

  • julie lavey · 10 months ago

    did the treehugers build this so they could look at them self's.

  • drunkaroo · 10 months ago

    looks like a great tree stand to bag a nice 8 point, they will never see me.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Lol i know all you tree huggers and animal activists out there are gonna love this one, looks like the perfect tree stand, totally invisible to the unsuspecting animal that would come across underneath it.

  • Bill · 10 months ago

    This is what happens when Hollywood goes into the forest. Depending on the time of day, and the weather conditions altering the reflectivity, yes, there will be lots of dead birds littering the ground. They either will see it as open space, fly into it, or see their reflections as other birds of their species and fly into it because of the attraction. Birds fly into windows and mirrors because either it looks open or because they are attracted to their own image. They don't break their faces as one here put it, they break their necks instantly, and die. So this stupid idea by some "arteests" is actually the opposite of green. What? Green = Camoflouge and nothing else? Duh.!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Can you imagine using this for hunting? That would be awesome the deer would never see you and you wouldnt have to wear camo anymore. Yes one idea leads to another great idea.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    they can add a sound only audible to birds to keep them away. that way they won't run into it. they can probalby keep all animals away. that way there would be no poop on the roof. they should turn yellowstone into riverside ca. there sould be a term for companies who clam to be green but aren't.

  • anonynmous · 10 months ago

    this is super cool. i don't know what you other guys are talking about but this rocks and i would love to have one in my backyard. but i think it could use a little tweeks here and there but i think it's still awesome

  • Chris · 10 months ago

    I don't think the bird thing really matters..... It will only be the ones no one cares about that live in that area...... Get real....

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    very cool treehouse

  • Prez L · 10 months ago

    Art is progress and so that makes this architecture of them. Very interesting!!

  • Malcom X saudi · 10 months ago

    Low "impact" on nature



    Man



    Can you do that for a tent in the desert to Lower the "impact" on nature

    KO KO

    Osamah Bin Ladin will be hapy to buy some thing like that & the drug lords too in Saudi arabia.





    I HAVE A DREAM

  • Malcom X saudi · 10 months ago

    Low "impact" on nature



    Man



    Can you do that for a tent in the desert to Lowe the "impact" on nature

    KO KO

    Osamah Bin Ladin will be hapy to buy some thing like that & the drug lords too in Saudi arabia.





    I HAVE A DREAM

  • Prez L · 10 months ago

    Art is progress and so that makes this architecture of them. Very interesting!!

  • Douglas Moon · 10 months ago

    Let's see....wind blows hard(no control of that) , termites weaken the tree structure(no control of that) oh thats right chemicals for that, there goes the green thing....birds, forest fire(trapped)...beavers(timber)....making out(cradle rocks)...diarrhea-hummm.....late night walk(bears just kill them)...drunk(fall out the tree).....people are homeless, country is broke....what the hell let's climb a tree and think about it! Tham & Videgrad(DUMB & DUMB)oh treehouse.....

  • glenda · 10 months ago

    I went to the site and looked at the info. There is a bathroom and a rope ladder or rope bridge for access

  • JORELL · 10 months ago

    if it's invisible... how come I can see it in the pictures?

  • daf · 10 months ago

    jobless idiots

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It would make a ^great* hunting blind! AND if you are a good shot, not a single bird will hit your treehouse!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Wow. Any thought into how disruptive the intense glare of sunlight might be off of this monolith to stupidity, to birds, animals, or the occasional low-flying air craft? With no legs/pier supports, I assume this design spikes the central tree which can't be great, though they seem to need a utility pole more than a tree anyway. I agree whole heartedly with the bird lovers: No, folks, birds don't hit trees, but they would try to fly into the reflected gaps they see between the reflected trees. For those unconcerned with impact on wildlife, it would have to be a very uncomfortable habitation, with little insulation, ventilation, air circulation, or consideration for the actual inhabitants of any given forest. I'd take a Swiss Family Robinson primitive over this any day...

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    what about all the birds that will die or get hurt from flying into a mirror ?

  • anonymous...idk how to spell i · 10 months ago

    i have to agree with some people. i am concered about birds and stuff banging into them but i istill think they're dope. those are super creative and wicked. i would love to have one...

  • blank · 10 months ago

    And to think that "intelligent", "educated", humans created such a non-green entity and actually put it in a forest of all places. Maybe we should put mirrors on 18 wheelers so they aren't as obstructionist. So what if a few people get run over, or how about buses. Idiots.

  • chris · 10 months ago

    Oh yeah, and if the birds are smart enough. They won't fly into themselves.....

  • Jaki · 10 months ago

    I dont see why everyone thinks birds will fly into this.If it shows the reflection of the other trees around then would the bird not think"Hey!a tree i better take a left or right so i dont fly right into it and break my neck". God my life must be realy pathetic that i am even commenting on this stupid thing.

  • Blondie · 10 months ago

    Just a thought... shouldn't these be made of bullet proof glass considering all of the people talking about how this would be an awesome tree stand. Do you not think that you could be up in that thing and get struck by a bullet from another hunter that didn't see this supposedly blended in room? The birds would probably be affected but think of the people that would be staying in this thing. Also like others have said ... what about the weight and someone crashing through if you had too many people or too much weight in it. I would not let my kids in a tree house made of glass.... that would just be dumb. Who came up with this someone who is in trouble with the law and looking for a place to hide? Lets get serious....

  • Felipe C. Galanida · 10 months ago

    The best idea in Green Architecture is to create a Built Environment with natural light, ventilation and plants. Incorporating trees and other botanical plants into our design does not mean building inside a forest. Let us help greening this planet by planting more trees in our Built Environment. Let the forest come into our buildings not the buildings to the forest!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    what if you had a squrial run up the tree across from the mirror and the reflection showed the squrial on the treehouse and a hunter was near by seen the squrial on treehouse then let a couple of round fly right toward the treehouse is it bullet proof????????

  • Monique · 10 months ago

    Don't you think birds are going to smack into it?

  • doclod · 10 months ago

    Wow! another brilliant so called "good for the environment" idea. Think of the birds that may crash into that thing. This is as stupid as createing some kind of artificial eye with an optical allusion that will make people see the total opposite of what is there and actually inplanting them in people.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    You are all idiots. Post after post of people crying over the poor birds. If you dont like the idea of human interaction causing any harm or distress on an animal or nature then you need to strip yourself free of the clothes you are wearing move out to the middle of a highly wooded area and live by natures side. The only way for humans to even try to survive on this planet will cause some harm to it.

  • KIAWAY · 10 months ago



    its so nice it like it, its so good for relax also u can

    listing the bird playing

  • Rich · 10 months ago

    Did anyone look at the pictures? Try looking at the bottom (floor)... No seam? How do you get a tree to squeeze itself into the tiny hole in that mirror without a seem? Did they cut the branches off, slide the box down, and then glue the branches back on?



    Maybe its just computer generated...CGI as another person posted. As for the birds...the only people that would be able to buy this would be rich. So be American and sue them if kills birds. Donate the money to charity and save a forest.



    Rich

  • bob · 10 months ago

    who cares about the damn birds this thing is sweet!

  • Steve · 10 months ago

    Wow, imagine all the birds this will kill. You would have to have a cleanup crew picking up dead birds every day.



    --Steve

  • kobb sakyi · 10 months ago

    Oh come on guys this is a master piece and its a great idea....they thought outside the box...maybe the could do something about the aesthetics to lessen birds crushing into it...or have real trees infront of the buildings.I think you guys should appreciate and correct if necessary but insulting and cursing is just not right.God bless

  • srun · 10 months ago

    Wow awsome! !!!!!!! Uyhaaaaa who ever design this invisible treehouse are .......idiot a real.........idiot idea, and have too much money too much time. They just want to enjoy themselft. please do not destroy this earth, you better off go to other planet and design it. Please do not bail out this house.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    who cares about the damn birds!!!!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    why would a bird fly into itself?...idiots

    quit hatin

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    hippie tree huggers

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It is more strange than creative....I'm not sure that tree will stand more that an year after building something mentioned above...

    before living there someone gonna learn flying....causes a miracle...

    Is it possible to order that cube on the top of the tree? lol

    actually doesn't seem "green" to me..not daltonian yet

  • Poop face mc.jagger · 10 months ago

    uhhhh

    u guys r stupid

    birds r smart

    they WONT die u retards

    geez

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    This is a very dumb idea because instead of making the world a better place you are just making it LOOK as if it were better instead of actually working to make it as such.

    This seems more like a scheme for people to make money instead of helping the enviornment

  • jim · 10 months ago

    i say cut the tree down and make me some SENSIBLE furniture to sit on

  • Poop face mc.jagger · 10 months ago

    great idea

    i would love 2 stay @ that hotel

    CHECK ME IN!

    whoever hates this,

    go suck eggs

    k?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    thats so cool

  • noneedtoknow · 10 months ago

    this is a useless piece of trash to be honest, nothing "artisitic" as u "geniuses" claim...just a reflective cube..wtf is that huh? artistic my ass, go look at the trash cans and call it artistic too, if you really want a real artistic architecture design that blends with nature and isnt harmful, build a building in the form of an actual tree!, now this is innovation and eco friendly...

  • dont worry · 10 months ago

    To all the hippies crying about birds and what not, shut up.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    whatsup with all the bird lovers all of a sudden? If he was building this out in the desert you would worry about the scorpions and snakes. Nobody really cares until something happens that they thing they can involve themselves in. I think its brilliant. Yeah, really one reflective box out in the wilderness is going to make such a dent in the bird population that its worth criticising

  • Vinchia · 10 months ago

    Good on the idea and design, but what about the foundation? Every single building, even a tree-house need a foundation. No ladder and bathroom also make it harder to use. Excellent ideas without ideologies are 'incomplete materials'.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    WTF yo



    Where dis be



    holla

  • Brian W · 10 months ago

    Environmentally friendly -- if designed by a republican!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    How is this a treehouse? Doesn't even look like one. It's a glass box on a tree. I prefer the classic look of a treehouse. Actually its hideous to be honest.



    Waste of brain power on the architects part.



    Eco-friendly, how? I can't believe this nonsense being put on this website.

  • Traci Barger · 10 months ago

    I want to know what it looks like on the inside.

  • Kevin Lee · 10 months ago

    What is the point to build the house on a tree? It looks a complete waste of effort for nothing? Building a small on ground would cost far less and has much smaller impact to the mother earth.



    BTW, that tree house looks dangerous to me. It does not look stable as is now, and I am almost certain when big winds come, it may fall.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I agree with Brittney & others on the bird issue. In a normal window, the object appears invisible which is what causes the birds to try to believe they can fly through it. But in this case, the surfaces are mirrored, so perhaps the birds would realize something is amiss. If not, perhaps they could create a slightly curved mirror surface, or one round, or barrel shaped as someone else suggested. That might also help with the bird strikes. Also, using plexiglass or plastic might also help.



    But as someone else mentioned, the bigger issue may be sunlight. In very hot, dry weather, it could potentially assist in, or cause tinder to ignite, starting a wildfire.

  • ME · 10 months ago

    Why? Why does this exist?

    Please tell me this was NOT built with a government grant or taxpayer dollars? Please.

    I can't stand the thought.

  • serkan · 10 months ago

    if it is cold inside, how do i get warmed?

  • Stotlaat · 10 months ago

    Interesting! Nature is at it's best when it benefits people and this seems to nvite people into nature. Comfortably. Good job!

  • Urmil · 10 months ago

    Hey is there a plot to kill all the birds in the forest? Good bird culling box I wonder if it could be used to kill locust in midair in Africa Also.

  • Kirvy39 · 10 months ago

    This idea is kinda creative, but you could use a little bit more of creativity... It will be better if it's NOT IN THE WOODS?????? It will be a better choice to camp rather than pay to live in the woods..

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    wher is the toilet? what you need to discharge?



    it could appear blending with the environment, but how does one feel when he is inside? considering that everyside is wrapped with a reflective material and the space inside looks too narrow.

  • Nonsequitor · 10 months ago

    Anonymous sez:



    A - I'm stupid



    B - I'm real stupid



    C - The space between my ears is unoccupied but not a

    vacuum because that can be measured.



    D - I'm George Bush



    E - All the above

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i want this on my house so my neighbors can feel how i feel

  • Sarah · 10 months ago

    Psalm 127:1 "unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain"...

  • mermaid · 10 months ago



    nice idea... i believe the architect has considered the weight of all the materials used in respect to the strength of the tree to stand during calm weather and during bad ones.. and it wont kill the

    tree right in long term?



    that cute little thing wont kill birds.. birds have

    thinking brains too.



    hanging there with the tree wont kills earthworms right?



    i wish i could build one too..

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    You are worried about killing birds? Seriously we built a house out on the farm and birds run into windows all of the time, free food for our dogs and cats. I can't believe that you would be worried about the environment when we people such as yourselves are moving out to the country and taking up 30 acres to live on, without raising any animals. That hurts the environment and takes away so much from people like me. I think this is a neat idea and wouldn't mind seeing it. But the fact that you don't like it because of birds, you got to be kidding me. I say do this over the cement all you tree huggers love to pour out on the streets. Global warming, lets make more roads, leave lights on at night. We are doing so much for our environment. God will take care uof us at the end, leave people like me alone please.

  • CA Lund · 10 months ago

    Dudes, ur missing the point -- they are building an Ewok village, it looks to be either northern MN or maybe Norway. Sign me up. I'm going. May the Force be with you all, jesus too.

  • odesa · 10 months ago

    i used to live in a house with large windows. they weren't even hidden like this things and the birds did think they could fly through the house. my mom refused to get blinds or fake hawk images to deter this. i had to watch many beautiful and rare birds die this way.



    we as humans are so species centric we think we are the center of the universe and should be able to do what we want.

    my opinion is that selfishness is the root of all the world's bad and evil.



    this is a bad idea, no matter how beautiful it looks because anything that is thoughtless loses it's beauty.

  • Jester · 10 months ago

    You have got to be kidding me!! So rather than pay for something that would help someone say I don't know a homeless shelter perhaps. This genius decides to build a house of mirrors for birds and squirrels then decides to slap a tree hugger label on it. Maybe I'm not as enlightened as I could be but can anyone else find the logic in this?? I have a drum set and I was thinking about replacing the skin on it with mirrors. Now if I took a picture of a squirrel standing next to my drum set would you guys vote for me to have my project posted here too?? Would I then be labeled as "Eco Friendly"? Would I be able to add that to my e-mail signature?

  • Ummm... · 10 months ago

    and in response to whoever said:

    "I wouldn't be surprised if they spent more times cleaning up the dead birds than building the thing."...

    most forest and wooded areas don't require a lot of clean-up, thanks to the God-given food chain instinct of living organisms/animals... and the natural decomposition process... otherwise, we could create a lot of jobs in our suffering economy, just cleaning up dead animals in the wild (and in our neighborhoods and streets, even). just sayin'...

    and remember, i AM a huge fan of animals, but let's be realistic. do we ban windows on our own houses, and business buildings, just because we are afraid a bird will have an accident and miscalculate its flight? if so, then we need to ban the highways too, because there are a lot of miscalculations going on there too, with our own species, ok.

  • Becca · 10 months ago

    Haha, I agree, great tree stand for hunting deer!!!

  • Neva levings · 10 months ago

    I think its perfectly horrible. I have birds bumping into my windows all the time and breaking their necks. What do you think will happen here.?

    A perfect murder tool.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Jesus.... who cares about a few dead birds? You all act like it will be bird genocide. Lighten up. I don't see any of you melodramatic whiners complaining about all the birds that cars kill. Furthermore, it's not like they are going to mass produce these ugly mirrored boxes and they will be in every tree in the neighborhood. I can't even believe I wasted my time typing this. OH NO, THE PRECIOUS BIRDS! THEY WILL ALL DIE! I AM GOING TO CRY!

  • mark · 10 months ago

    tree huggers are first off more like a big social club, they protest every little stinking thing, just to hear themselves complain, like a bird dying in the woods, spend millions of dollars so one bird wont die... death in the wilderness is part of life it happens every day... And beleive it or not it happens to every creature alive!!! why not complain about something worth while like how many millions of HUMAN BABIES are being slaughtered every year, and i think normal people might actually give a shit about what your complaining about, if youll excuse me ive got to go cut my lawn and pull some weeds.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    it is simply greedyness rather than caring for enviroment

  • Conservationist not enviro-MEN · 10 months ago

    The author of this little story tries to tell us how ugly the tall mirrored buildings are and how no one likes them because they look like a big box. Did I miss something, isn't this a big mirrored BOX, just on a tree? This is just as ugly as a tall mirrored box in the middle of town; however, in the middle of town it serves a purpose, this is just stupid and totally out of place with nature. You would think a tree-hugger would even know that. Save the trees build a gigantic mirror around then and kill all the birds (thud). Art at its best, just another pile of do do passed of as good for the environment by those in the know. Ya we know, plop.

  • lindsey · 10 months ago

    dont you think birds will fly into the mirrored glass? And die?

  • Durwood · 10 months ago

    This is awesome. I'm thinking of getting one to replace my tree stand for deer season. Ole Bambi will never know what's coming. BLAM! Do you like venison steak to go along with your venison sausage roll?

    So yeah, I guess I agree that this just might be a complete waste of time. But thanks for all of the upper crust of society types chiming in with their high-falutin' pontifications and such on what a wonderful idea this thing is. Here's another point of view. It's not. And for anybody who wasted this much time either designing or admiring such a waste...well, all that can be said is these people are made and kept free thanks to the exertions of better men (and women) than themselves.

    Here's a tip: Stay in school. Here's another: Get a life!

  • Steve · 10 months ago

    I read some of the comments already, and probably don't need to repeat what I've read. It is amazing to think that there are people who believe their impact will be so insignificant on the surrounding environment, that they would actually create something like this. How does one walk to and from such a unit without creating a path, or destroying vegetation. How does one even build it without have a very significant impact. And when the tree gets struck by lightening, a tornado comes through, the tree gives way to the weight or bark killing effects of occupation, there will be fallout.

    NUF SAID! This idea, at least for commercial purposes, is BADDDDDDD!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    sure its green. think of all the dove hunters that want have to buy amo. they can just go out and pick up what they want. heres your sighn!!!!!

  • sam · 10 months ago

    execellent idea master peice....GREAT....those with negative commets are simply jealous..narrow minded.....like frogs in the well ..............i wish i had money....i could buy this house.....those who are worring about toilets ,,should think when they do camping what they do ?????birds lover must think birds dont fly that low.....

  • papap · 10 months ago

    how about those birds migrating? they aren't adapted to such illusionary materials (mirrors) thus rendering them incapable of adjusting to the environment. true enough that birds or any other tree dwelling animals have superb depth perception, but then you have to realize that they are not suited for such environmental changes. it may look good on the outside but you have to keep an open mind about it. i'd use my money on a real hotel rather than a treehouse that smells similar to death..

  • myra · 10 months ago

    it's ridiculous..

    what if something happens to the tree or your house.. like a disaster occurs like earthquakes forest fire??? or some part of the house is broken and will break apart coz it's made of glass??? your house will break and fall too easy.. and what's worst is that you have to jump to get out of your house, unfortunately, all the mirrors will fall too.. and you'll end up injured or dead too early...



    also, what if a bulldozer just hit your treehouse, haha.. big accident! you can't blame the bulldozer man 'coz your house was invisible...



    The trees are for the birds. if you want a tree house.. I say just stick with woods..



    It's elegant in style but not safe and it's too costly for a treehouse. Why would you want your tree house invisible? unless you're hiding something or you might have some hidden agenda. It's after all safe, against the enemies. But is it safe for you?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    all you tree huggers are retarted this is the most out their thing you have created right behind global warming

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Janiece said:



    "It continues to amaze me that people often cannot see the difference between something that benifits the environment (or at least does not harm it) and something that merely blends in or aesthetically assimilates nature."



    If the reflective sunlight and bird strike issues are resolved, or found to not be an issue; it would seem that the idea could potentially be both, not harmful to the environment (or minimally harmful), and aesthetically pleasing to people and blending in with nature.



    And wouldn't that have the least impact on the surrounding habitat & surrounding wildlife? A structure wherein people can observe without being observed themselves? In particular I would think it could be useful for scientists wishing to study a particular ecosystem or species unobserved and without interaction with the native fauna.



    Although building the structure or structures could be problematic and counter productive in that case. Perhaps if they used zip lines in the construction process...

  • CoolBeenSprouts · 10 months ago

    Wow took all to 10 seconds for someone to point out this is bound to kill birds. You would have thought with all the brains piled into this firm and the environmental movement at least one person would have thought of the little birdies. Nice miss there Lloyd!

  • Eric · 10 months ago

    I see this and think first off that this is awesome! But yeah, I get everyone's point about so many birds flying into it and dieing... WE GET IT PEOPLE! someone PLEASE do what they keep saying and get a camera out there and record the birds slamming into the walls and put it on youtube so we all can watch and laugh our butts off! I am pretty sure that will be a high hitter on youtube. You guys would be awesome if yall do make this cause hey, thats just cool. Just think... how cool it would be to snipe people out with a paintball gun or airsoft gun or something in this. Haha

  • YourFaceMyAss · 10 months ago

    I am writing this for the sake of sanity.

    Our future will not be a network of tree dwelling Ewok like villages. They are expensive and impractical. They were designed for a small niche market. There will be a thousand at most. Also, remember that these do not need to be fixated to the trees at such a high altitude. If you move the thing down ten feet then it won't be in the typical flying paths of the birds. Sure, every year fifty or sixty birds die because of these, but this isn't going to be a Rachel Carson- Silent Spring situation. If you really care about the world stop whining about deadly bird hoses and give your energy to a better cause. There are hundreds out there. Stop fear mongering and go to bed.

  • HAMB · 10 months ago

    Interesting... I hope that the exercise of designing this thing has shaken loose some actually eco-friendly ideas.

    As a "hotel room", I would assume that there would be several hundred of these co-located... how nice... with the reflective material, you would need only one tree in the middle to "simulate" a forrest.

    Where's the parking lot?

    Kudos, though... enough "different" ideas may yield some good ones.

  • YourFaceMyAss · 10 months ago

    I am writing this for the sake of sanity.

    Our future will not be a network of tree dwelling Ewok like villages. They are expensive and impractical. They were designed for a small niche market. There will be a thousand at most. Also, remember that these do not need to be fixated to the trees at such a high altitude. If you move the thing down ten feet then it won't be in the typical flying paths of the birds. Sure, every year fifty or sixty birds die because of these, but this isn't going to be a Rachel Carson- Silent Spring situation. If you really care about the world stop whining about deadly bird hoses and give your energy to a better cause. There are hundreds out there. Stop fear mongering and go to bed.

  • landon · 10 months ago

    the idea is nice, but yeah.. ive read about several buildings had birds killed.. but maybe the probbility here would be less since it's on the smaller scale... but even still. And has anyone studied about the glare it could actually reflect? Plus the facilities is as non sustainable as a real tree house. And I dont believe naturalists would appreciate this ultramodern cube.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Totally retarded it would had been better to paint it.

  • Dick · 10 months ago

    I think I just barfed in my mouth a little.

  • Johnny_Hippie · 10 months ago

    I hope a few Dove crash into this thing while I have my weekend stay...those things sure are some mighty fine eatin'



    seriously people get a clue. I have worked in high rises covered with reflective glass for the better part of 25 years and yes, a few birds slam their little heads into them and pass to the other side on ocassion. I also ride my bike quite a bit and have found that FAR more birds are killed by speeding vehicles. In fact my cat probably kills more birds in a week than does a high rise building in a year.

    This is exactly why not many take you morons seriously...you have a debilitating tendency to exaggerate things to an unbelivable proportion and lose credibility. I want this planet to survive as much as the next person but for God's sake at least do a little reseach into what you say and restore a litlle credibility into us older "tree huggers".

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Aside from the well observed fact that birds of all sizes will perish, what about the other impacts on the natural surroundings? What will happen as the tree grows and ruins the structural integrity of this little abode, will it be responsibly removed, or will it slowly fall to pieces and risk further environmental damage? How would it handle high winds, hail storms, temperature changes? Is there a possiblility of sunglare contributing to forest fire in dry conditions?



    I think anyone who has brought this concept to the public eye should build one with the mirrors turned inward, sit inside, and do some real self-reflection on where their concerns truly emminate from, and what they are really trying to achieve. If upon this inward observation it is realized that you just want to do something original and different that will catch peoples attention, then present it as such. Trying to capitalize using benevolent terminology is exactly why progress toward fixing environmental problems is so slow, consumers still have to filter through the bombardment of "green" products to figure out which is truly beneficial and which are just trying to cash in (just because the color of our money is 'green').

  • Jlee · 10 months ago

    if a bird saw another bird flying at it, the bird would dodge. so day time birds may be able to see the structure and avoid the building. by looking at a reflection of itself it would probably avoid a collision.



    bats ( if any, will use biosonar) and owls may fall victim since they tend to head towards light.



    i think this is a new twist to architecture. i hardly see anyone build humongous mirrors for nature.



    i just hope the tree didnt die giving the artist space to build on.

  • kim · 10 months ago

    i think it is no good idea, it could be harmful for the nature, it destroy the environment, it certainly left considerably amount of waste into the nature.

    think about broken mirrors and other things left behind.

    it is dangerous for birds.

    we wouldn't kill birds just for having a house of mirror.

    think about how many birds are going to die.

    is the birds agree with our box? certainly NO.

    THE NATURE IS BEUTIFUL WITHOUT OUR BOX, ARE YOU DISAGREE?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Yes very clever....Creat a subject to occupy the masses whilst serious and very critical things are happening to people by our government. Al Gore is a terrorist. He along with all the other eco terrorists are trying to infringe on my life by telling me that our world is warming? I mean jeez like there is nothing to do with sun cycles causing warming and as if the world can no take care of iyself. When it gets polluted enough it will rid itself of the problem and its called diseases, famine, and natural disasters. Science + "know it alls"= injustice and infringment on peoples lives. Live in a tree house thats great....I will just build one from them. Or better yet just go ahead be boroughing down getting ready for the apocalypse like our government has been preparing for for the last 30 years.

  • Your Mom · 10 months ago

    It must be a bunch of pissed off dumb ass state workers commenting on this. You guys need to get a job and stop putting people down who are trying new ideas. Fags

  • Jeff Bullock from NASHVILLE · 10 months ago

    First and foremost... This structure is a little cooler than most tree houses that we built in my day. Secondly, people are mentioning economy struggles when even though the economy might struggle, the person that made this bought with their own money from someone else who was trying to make a living! That is actually investing in the economy! Another note, there are things that can be put into place to repel birds... GOOGLE IT! Anyway all in all, if it were you making this interesting treehouse, instead of sitting on your rear on the couch, you wouldn't be saying all the negative comments that have been posted.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    You all are so Wrong. Every environmentalist knows glass and specifically mirrored glass grows naturally and wild in the forest. It has been found all over the rain forests and is believed to be the source that drives the massive amount of rain. It is also credited with the reason there is no snow in some forests due to it amazing reflective properties evaporating snow before it hits the ground. Most people are not aware of its natural existence and growth in nature because it blends in so well and looks so natural. Just the other day I was walking through my local forest trail eating some organic granola, when all of a sudden I found my self flat on my butt. I was a little dazed and a bit confused for a short time (you know much like a bird that bounces off a window) but when i regained my normal state, I realized I had just run into a mirror grove. I though see there one is, and I didn't even see it because it blends in so well with nature.

  • joe · 10 months ago

    I disagree I think birds would not run into it. They still see the object. What birds don't see is clear glass. Great Idea

    we need to go back to the woods etc. cities are over rated dirty and not good for much. well they are good for one thing an economic crises. :)

  • ben ndungu · 10 months ago

    what a nice way to mess up forests and use words like invisible...not impressive at all

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    birds will never see it coming when they fly into that thing lol.

  • Pokman · 10 months ago

    Lol, interesting comments above. Pretty cool treehouse. I'd love to see it from an architectural standpoint, but those birds... Bird's fly into skyscrapers everyday; I don't see why they wouldn't fly into a giant mirror in the forest... NO TO MIRRORED HOUSES!

  • natalie chua · 10 months ago

    COOL!!! filipino expression: GALING!!! means Great Work! The best design. two thumbs up! Superb!

  • justin · 10 months ago

    the whole thing is retarded

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    You may want to put a net around. At least a meter away from the "box"

  • gary · 10 months ago

    why all the negitivity about the tree house? i personally think it's a brillant idea! yea, of course, birds are going to fly into it, but that is probably the only environment effect that it will encounter and it's probably not as bad as everyone is putting it here. i just see it as all jelousy from most of you!

  • tjdaroya · 10 months ago

    Whats this? some kind of magic?

  • TreeLover · 10 months ago

    So what genius thought of this structure? Yeah... right, bird will avoid this as if they avoid wind turbines.

  • MirrorMirrorOnTheTree · 10 months ago

    Why not just cut some trees down and build a house on the ground where nature intended them to be?

  • jillbryant · 10 months ago

    I love this site. My first thought was the birds, then that hunters would use it and you guys beat me to it. That's a relief. I doubt if that would be the response in other places but maybe I'm selling people short...

  • Stan · 10 months ago

    Silver is the new Green. Dead birds are the new confetti.

  • skinner hates birds · 10 months ago

    i say good job to the designer!!! havent you people seen birds! they are just waiting to hit us at any second its best we put these up immediatly to further help us in our future struggle against them, haha seriously though this is just a really stupid design! just dumb, the fact that this glorified treehouse is even getting attention is stupid.

  • VC · 10 months ago

    I like it! I say build a natural wooden walk-patio around it and attach a strong but soft green metallic net around the entire house and walkway as a soft shock-abosorber for birds.



    Instead of knocking peoples' idea think outside the box and help.



    Now as for how to keep it clean ...now that's something to think about but then again most people don't clean their cabins' outside..



    It would be a nice retreat from floods and a safer place to camp-sleep overnight from some animals .



    Still a great idea! Keep it moving and don't listen to the HATERS-OF THE WORLD! Innovation is what built the horseless carriage and Microsoft!

  • james · 10 months ago

    I cant tell you the number of times I have seen birds fly into windows to their doom. I live in a small and simple ranch house. One spring a cardinal came and tried to mate with his reflection in our window. It was extremely annoying. It was a constant barage of thwaks as the bird tried to leap at its reflection in a breeding competition. I cut folage back, shot water at bird, yelled at it etc. After 3 weeks I finnaly had to shoot it.

  • bitsphere · 10 months ago

    "And in this case, it looks like the architects have pulled it off successfully."

    You must be kidding. What architect. This is hardly a sophomore's design exercise. This proposal, and I emphasize on this word "proposal" is neither architecture nor design. Why on earth would you post such a folly on this web site, worse than that, plugged on yahoo.

    Aside from it's foolish concept, and unsustainable structure; let alone it's immature drawings and photoshopped images; it's an insult to all the visitors of this wonderful web site who deserve a clarification on this incident. So glad, I am not disappointed by the reaction of the readers and their comments.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Does anyone realize that if a bird flew at this he would see himself in it and NOT FLY INTO A REFELCTION OF HIMSELF!! It's not clear glass, it's a reflective mirrored surface! Not saying this is not a pointless piece of architecture but it is neat and not nearly as dangerous as everyone seems to think. Birds aren't retarded.

  • josh · 10 months ago

    okay first of all 1:who cares if some birds die its not like their an endangered species 2:some people like architexture and building these kind of things are fun to them 3:this is really COOL

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Janiece said:



    "It continues to amaze me that people often cannot see the difference between something that benifits the environment (or at least does not harm it) and something that merely blends in or aesthetically assimilates nature."



    If the reflective sunlight and bird strike issues are resolved, or found to not be an issue; it would seem that the idea could potentially be both, not harmful to the environment (or minimally harmful), and aesthetically pleasing to people and blending in with nature.



    And wouldn't that have the least impact on the surrounding habitat & surrounding wildlife? A structure wherein people can observe without being observed themselves? In particular I would think it could be useful for scientists wishing to study a particular ecosystem or species unobserved and without interaction with the native fauna.



    Although building the structure or structures could be problematic and counter productive in that case. Perhaps if they used zip lines in the construction process...

  • Reflections · 10 months ago

    Image going out hunting owls and shooting at the darn critters reflection. Three more shots and a body drops out of some tree? What the ....? Those owls really are wise!

  • imaginaryfriend · 10 months ago

    I had a similar idea for a hunting suit, made it completely mirrored. Worked out until testing when a male bear saw his reflection and thought it was another male bear and charged me. Bear was confused why other male bear was running backwards (lol).

  • Amazed · 10 months ago

    This is a really cool photo. Taking into account it looks photoshop edited and totally fake. Nice thought tho. Like a mini hotel MINUS bathroom amenities. Altho - you get the benefit of little birdies nosediving into your walls at all hours and little squirrels adjusting to the blinding light from the mirrors! What other ridiculous architectural wonder can these overeducated, overpaid idiots come up with? Perhaps someone can explain how GLASS is environmentally friendly? What happened to wood products??

  • SG123 · 10 months ago

    Wow. I think something like this would be good for troops. It would work especially well at night.

    thisisreal73@yahoo

  • sisay milkias · 10 months ago

    art makes us to admire how nature is.

  • Wil · 10 months ago

    i don't understand. so you want it to blend into nature, yeah? that is what i'd call, superficial conservationism, or maybe, environmental vanity. you've just built a hotel on a tree! how is that good for the tree? and everything else that doesn't care about whether or not they can SEE a hotel. this is honestly confusing and a poor use of resources.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I don't see how this is a good idea. For one, like most that have posted, birds surely will run into it. Second, for those saying that this would make a good hunting blind, if animals don't see it, another hunter might not see it either, and miss. Well miss the animal and put a bullet/arrow/pellets into whoever is behind it.

  • denise · 10 months ago

    poor birds ..

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    just think you wont go hungary you will have lots of bird to eat and to go to washroom drill hole in floor and exit on other side of tree lol

  • jagz · 10 months ago

    if a hotel falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?

  • NOT TELLING YOU! · 10 months ago

    I agree with "nearly invisible." I want to see how invisible it is when I stand underneath it >=O

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Um, have any of you ever been in the woods? Birds ussually fly OVER the forest not through it so I doubt that birds running into this would be that much of an issue, I think it is an awesome concept (minus the bathroom issue).

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Janiece said:



    "It continues to amaze me that people often cannot see the difference between something that benifits the environment (or at least does not harm it) and something that merely blends in or aesthetically assimilates nature."



    If the reflective sunlight and bird strike issues are resolved, or found to not be an issue; it would seem that the idea could potentially be both, not harmful to the environment (or minimally harmful), and aesthetically pleasing to people and blending in with nature.



    And wouldn't that have the least impact on the surrounding habitat & surrounding wildlife? A structure wherein people can observe without being observed themselves? In particular I would think it could be useful for scientists wishing to study a particular ecosystem or species unobserved and without interaction with the native fauna.



    Although building the structure or structures could be problematic and counter productive in that case. Perhaps if they used zip lines in the construction process...

  • losertreehuggers · 10 months ago

    Seriously,

    You morons should get a clue and a life. Birds are meant to die, in fact, all animals are meant to die and be eaten by man. It's nature at it's best. Yes, these stupid mirrored tree houses will kill animals. Any one can figure that one out.



    It's called society..why don't you arrogant, self-righteous - holier than thou' hippies join up...or are you too busy hiding in the wilderness with your hairy armpitted hippy chicks??

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    i want one

  • Dana · 10 months ago

    It looks too small to be a hotel. And why would I stay in a hotel in the middle of the forest in a tree when there are perfectly good hotels in a city on the ground?

  • Hikari_demom · 10 months ago

    OMG YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will LOVE to live in a tree ^_^ ALSOME !!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    nice thing

  • Dave · 10 months ago

    Yeah, birds are going to fly right into that thing. I used to have a tree in my front yard on the east side of the house, right in front of the big living room window. In late afternoon, about 3 or 4 times a month, a bird would try to fly into the tree reflection in the window. Most were only stunned, but there were 4 fatals in the 6 years I lived there. If birds "see" a tree, will try to land in it.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    deer, deer, they will never see it coming. the ultimate camo post.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    now I haven't read to make sure this wasn't already addressed, but from the looks of it, any bird would smack into it at any angle. Even head-on there's no guarantee a bird might veer out of the way enough from hitting what it thinks to be another bird, which is really itself.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    THIS WOULD BE GREAT EVERYTIME YOU THINK SOMEONES KNOCKING IT'S JUST A BIRD PLONGING TO IT'S DEATH

  • C Schowalter · 10 months ago

    This is a BIRD KILLER



    It is also NOT a place I'd want to be during hunting season.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Don't you people get it. All the dead birds will serve as fertilizer for the trees, thereby mking it a "GREEN" tree house. Come on you have got to think out side of the box : )

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I know you might not wanna hear this but your idea with a little les angles can efficiantly be used in military sniper situations......GOVERNMENT GRANT...?????----just n idea! i want 2%

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Just do it. Why not.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Just do it. Why not.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    personally who is going to use a mirrored treehouse in the middle of a forest? and why? Treehouses are for chidren and who would bother building a mirrored treehouse anyway?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    if these are mirrors won't the bird see it self flying into itself and get out of the way???

  • Jason · 10 months ago

    I like it. It looks cool, and seems to be very intelligently designed. I would like to see thousands made for people across the states. As far as the other comments on this page, "I fell sorry for my children". That they have to grow up in a world with all of you idiots. Are you people that post these comments really this dumb. There will be no dead birds, birds are not blind nor dumb. This is no worse than the car you drive or the house you live in now. Stop copying what you saw in the other comments just so you think you gave your two sh*ts, it makes you sound retarded. And yes i know, the majority of the people that have posted this stuff will not come back to this websie to read what i have said.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    With the volume of posts I figured someone would have already stated the opinions I hold on this. Turns out I was right:



    Newsflash: Bird's have depth perception. They will notice when a camouflaged wall isn't moving. They run into glass because it's clear, not because the carpet inside looks farther away than it is. This is very much a solid looking object, and if you were walking (or flying) anywhere near it that would be readily apparent. These stills are misleading. Stop carrying on about the birds. It's well done.



    If a bird was plying toward it, it would see it's reflection in the glass.



    Like I know... Like... Like this is so so serious... get a grip.

    This is totally outrageous, this abomination is going to lead to the death of as many as six birds over the course of the next century! This is unconscionable!!! Furthermore, I am tired of this trend in society of the ever increasing popularity of green living, which of course would be the only real way to ever fix the horrible problem this planet faces...to make environmentalism cool, because what are me and my hipster friends supposed to talk about and judge other people upon now that all the yuppies have stolen our issue?!?!?!? This is terrible!!!!>I get the feeling this is sarcasm... Just maybe>



    It would seem however that the architects focused almost completely on aesthetic presentation, which they achieved without a doubt.



    OTHER OPINIONS (As if they mattered to y'all =P)



    I really don't think Birds will die en mass because of this. I think everyone's trying to come up with their own creative way of saying "Birds will die", in order, subconsciously or consciously, to make it look like they're not just copying someone else's idea, and I also think one of the only reasons most everyone who posts here is complaining about the birds is because everyone else seems to be saying it. If you look at the pattern of posting, the frequency of bird complaints rises every time someone makes a particularly noticeable or striking comment about it and goes down after enough other posts are posted to remove the bird complaints from view.. Who here remembers the fate of the Audi 5000?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Do birds fly into mirrored walls - it would look like they're about to fly into another bird (their reflection)? Glass tends to be see through but not mirrors.

    Note that no birds were actually harmed in the writing of all these inane bird-related comments.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    IMPACT...yeah, I'm sure that there was no pun was intended. And although applause should be given to the narcissistic attitude of the designer's own architectual achievement...I somehow just don't believe that all woodland creatures would escape the possibility of inadvertantly leaping or flying directly into what they would have otherwise perceived as an open space

  • brandon · 10 months ago

    Jesus christ u tree hugging sons of bitchs get over it its a tree house. "OH MY GOD SAVE THE BIRDS" screw the birds i hopw a engine from a air plane falls and crushs u in its wake.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    dude wtf you guys are tripping... im not an expert but dont birds run into windows because there is NO reflection and it looks like they can go through? if there is a reflection wont they see "another" bird coming and swerve or stop? hmmmmmmmmmmm.



    lighten up... it looks cool.

  • brandi · 10 months ago

    I don't know why you people call it art. That thing is just a box..it is ugly!!

  • Izzy · 10 months ago

    Looks like a bird mass murder case!... Would you welcome raising a mirror in the middle of a freeway?... duhhh...

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    yummy i love to eat dead birds,,,, yummy .

  • Amanda · 10 months ago

    That is a HUGE waste of money! Like many of the comments have stated...it is not green, it is a bandwagon that these architects and whoever else jumped on. This serves absolutely no purpose.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    With the volume of posts I figured someone would have already stated the opinions I hold on this. Turns out I was right:



    Newsflash: Bird's have depth perception. They will notice when a camouflaged wall isn't moving. They run into glass because it's clear, not because the carpet inside looks farther away than it is. This is very much a solid looking object, and if you were walking (or flying) anywhere near it that would be readily apparent. These stills are misleading. Stop carrying on about the birds. It's well done.



    If a bird was plying toward it, it would see it's reflection in the glass.



    Like I know... Like... Like this is so so serious... get a grip.

    This is totally outrageous, this abomination is going to lead to the death of as many as six birds over the course of the next century! This is unconscionable!!! Furthermore, I am tired of this trend in society of the ever increasing popularity of green living, which of course would be the only real way to ever fix the horrible problem this planet faces...to make environmentalism cool, because what are me and my hipster friends supposed to talk about and judge other people upon now that all the yuppies have stolen our issue?!?!?!? This is terrible!!!!>I get the feeling this is sarcasm... Just maybe>



    It would seem however that the architects focused almost completely on aesthetic presentation, which they achieved without a doubt.



    OTHER OPINIONS (As if they mattered to y'all =P)



    I really don't think Birds will die en mass because of this. I think everyone's trying to come up with their own creative way of saying "Birds will die", in order, subconsciously or consciously, to make it look like they're not just copying someone else's idea, and I also think one of the only reasons most everyone who posts here is complaining about the birds is because everyone else seems to be saying it. If you look at the pattern of posting, the frequency of bird complaints rises every time someone makes a particularly noticeable or striking comment about it and goes down after enough other posts are posted to remove the bird complaints from view.. Who here remembers the fate of the Audi 5000?



    Chill out about the birds.



    One other thing; not so much a comment as a complaint; Don't complain about something unrelated to your welfare being unsustainable. If it is indeed unsustainable then it's probably easiest to just let it die; unless it directly concerns you in some way.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    If it is going to kill birds.. I will buy 100 of them to put up in my neighborhood to get rid of the flying rats... also known as pigeons.

  • concealer · 10 months ago

    i doubt this would really ever be put into actual production..... looks like they just wanted to build something.



    so....



    alll the people worried about the birds..... take a step back.... and listen to yourselves.





    stop driving cars.... think of the squirels......



    i bet it would be 50 to 1 squirrel to bird death ratio between a car and this tree house.



    dont get me wrong... i think its dumb... and a huge waiste of time and money.... go cure cancer .... it will probably save your own life.... and if your not into that..... bake me a cake.

  • Jo · 10 months ago

    Wow, that's right, it would be perfect for hunting, those deer wouldn't suspect a thing!

  • fairymagicmail · 10 months ago

    What happens if my friends and I jump up and down at the same time in this house?

    ; )

  • Heather · 10 months ago

    Whether birds, furried floor creatures or rodents, some form of natural life is always affected by the infroduction an unatural structure no matter how environmentaly consious. All we can do is attempt to build with our Mother in mind as best we can. I say 'good job' to those who tried in the interest of the innocent and hopefully we can improve tactics in the future.

    Remember, all sales are sold by a salesman and only true education is not for sale.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Oh my gosh. =O That's amazing. It's a hotel AND a bird trap. Catches dinner for you. Naise idea.



    On a more serious note:



    Who would want to pay to live there? There's no windows. It's very small. There's no apparent way in or out. Lots of people would be paranoid about the tree-house falling down, seeing as it's a floating structure built around a tree. It's very expensive. I mean, there's electricity lines being strung into the middle of a forest, just for a single 10 sqr. foot tree house. That's not going to make the house come cheap. That's a pretty sad package when you look at it. A high price tag for almost no living space, no way out, no safety, no quick route back to society?



    [If it's close to the edge of the woods, what's the point? The only reason you'd want to be in is for the experience, and being right next to a highway would remove that.]



    Just a question, though.

    What about the trees?

    Will the light reflected off the mirror have a positive or negative effect? I mean, if the place is dry, could it possibly start a fire? If it's humid, could it just help the trees grow by providing more light?



    That makes me think of something else.

    Who's going to clean the mildew off of the mirrors? Who's going to clear the debris off the top? >__>



    This whole system is extremely ineffecient.

  • mitchell rusell · 10 months ago

    yes people argue that birds can die, but what about the tree, u don care about the tree. the tree wiill feel the impact nd it will fall. that house posses a risk to clients life.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Just stick a fake, realistic-looking eagle on the roof and nothing will fly near it.

  • kacy cepeda · 10 months ago

    it's really awesome!!

    i love the whole idea..:)

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    "okay negative nancy too bad it will be reflecting all the trees and i think birds miss trees, so"



    hahahaha, are you seriously that dumb? the birds will try to fly between the branches and hit GLASS, not nothing like a reglular forrest. How about if a bird tries to land on a branch.?!?!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    listen there are millions and millions of birds in the world, i am tired of waking up and looking at my car with poop. i am glad architects have found a way to kill and harm birds. They eat our crops and do nothing for the environment, the way that i see it, this will improve everyones life. GO ARCHITECTS

  • Dwi Setijo Widodo · 10 months ago

    Yeah, that's true about the birds...

    I have seen many birds hit a glass wall since they thought it was clear.

    So, it may happen as well to this treehouse.

    I like the idea, yet we should think the other aspects.

    If there are more negative ones, leave it on a paper is a better idea! :-)

  • ChuckLep · 10 months ago

    I believe that using terms like "eco-friendly" and "green" and dicussing environmentalism, whether it is over the internet, a cell phone or paper is ironic and truly shows how little we understand these terms we throw around. Consider this, those peoples that are truly living in harmony with nature have eschewed technology in favor of a simple lifestyle and will never see your posts because they are working hard with nature to survive on natures terms. We on the other hand are using various technologies which are harming that which we claim to protect. We will eventually re-learn how to exist on this planet by balancing our needs/desires with the Earths or we will perish and the Earth will abide. These people made a sincere effort to help, I applaud them as well as anyone else who uses their time to help, even if the results are less than stellar. Positive attitudes generate positive results and vice-versa, criticism helps only when an alternative (&hopefully better) idea is presented,like the post suggesting natural tree colors instead of mirrors. Peace All

  • annie oakleaf · 10 months ago

    What will happen to that unseen building when a hunter shoots it ? Is it bullet proof ?

  • behnam mamlooki · 10 months ago

    fantastic...but what about other animals living there...live there as a hunter or hunt

  • annie oakleaf · 10 months ago

    What will happen to that unseen building when a hunter shoots it ? Is it bullet proof ?

  • treehugger365 · 10 months ago

    So much hate. Without pushing the boundaries of design we wouldn't have anything that presently exists. So, true it's just a tree house, but is it the world to some kid? And, "serving a little purpose?" How can you say that? Is an effort to BETTER preserve the beauty of an environment a crime against humanity? Relax already!



    Additionally, to P.O. everyone, do you think the birds that are hitting this thing will somehow disappear before they hit the ground, and not participate in the circle of life?

  • Shawn · 10 months ago

    I can't believe u guys r worried about birds; That is pathetic. Overly emotional people worry about Birds when inventors are trying to design something useful. This may not be the archetechual design of the century, but worry about birds, is like the person at the board room not allowing free thought at a mental crash session.

    Besides there are birds dead at my house all the time and has nothing to do with mirrors, or the woods. Deal with it you pathetic overly emotional degenerates of human conciousness, We are animals ourselves, or did you think we are gods?

  • valentine's day ideas · 10 months ago

    This is NOT good for the environment.

  • badguy · 10 months ago

    Who cares about the birds O no the birds will fly into this is there anything in this world that you animal lovers don't b!tch about come on and the Environment please your mother and fathers and us are not the ones to blame THE GOVERMENT PEOPLE, well this environment thing is a battle we will never win give up live life and go on.By the way birds sh!tting all over the place is that good for the environment I don't mean to sound like an ass but please, these people put thier minds together and made something cool and like the green tree hugging animal loving JERKS that most of you are bash these people so go fly a kite better yet go jump off a cliff with all your little bird friends Jerk offs

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    dude wtf you guys are tripping... im not an expert but dont birds run into windows because there is NO reflection and it looks like they can go through? if there is a reflection wont they see "another" bird coming and swerve or stop? hmmmmmmmmmmm.



    lighten up... it looks cool.

  • whocares! · 10 months ago

    who ever made this.. give it a shot... prove us wrong...

    build it.



    just make sure its bulletproof. hehe!

    other hunters will surely not noticed your tree house.





    MAKE IT HAPPEN. Keep us posted.







  • Christine · 10 months ago

    There's one problem with that kind of tree house, as everyone else has pointed out. If it blends entirely with the environment, what will happen to the birds flying past? SPLAT! Same as what happens in the cities with reflective glass high rises.



    I'd rather have the good old traditional tree house, minus the dangerous class and expensive cost.

  • Christine · 10 months ago

    Excuse me, haha, glass, not class. Though that sort of applies too.

  • Abdul Cader · 10 months ago

    This is not just looks fake.. IT IS FAKE!!!

    They find 1 tree photos & "photoshop" right side trees in left side mirror & "photoshop" left side trees in right side mirror. Thats why it looks beautiful. If they really made one, it will never look like those photos they have posted here.

    (Pls think with common sence.. If the background of the tree is beautiful clear blue sky, the reflection will be either another color sky or clouds or sun or house or anything else on our side!!)

  • Abdul Cader · 10 months ago

    This is not just looks fake.. IT IS FAKE!!!

    They find 1 tree photos & "photoshop" right side trees in left side mirror & "photoshop" left side trees in right side mirror. Thats why it looks beautiful. If they really made one, it will never look like those photos they have posted here.

    (Pls think with common sence.. If the background of the tree is beautiful clear blue sky, the reflection will be either another color sky or clouds or sun or house or anything else on our side!!)

  • lyna · 10 months ago

    the birds can take a shower and do the makeup infront of the mirror. heee haaaa

  • Timon Weller · 10 months ago

    Bravo on the design, I agree with Hayley with the birds hey, they will hit it alot.. I used to live in a high bird area and the house was not even camo and birds ran into it alot.. :)

  • adam · 10 months ago

    I would love to make a deer stand out of this. that way the only thing i would need to worry about is how to cook the back straps up?



    I think its a great idea.



    many things could be hunted out of a stand like this love the idea!



    and about the birds... i guess all i have to say is its a good day to be me and a better day not to be that stupid bird that flew into it! right??

  • Leslie @ the oko box · 10 months ago

    I think there are much better more sustainlable ideas out there - it's not sustainable just because it reflects nature. While artictically it's interesting I have to agree with all the other commenters about the possibility of confusing birds and tree animals and hurting them in the process.

    I also think it's looks bad in general.

  • Jeff · 10 months ago

    Survival of the fittest. If a bird is dumb enough to run into this thing they deserve to die. The bird would have to be retarded to run into, and I’m guessing so is everyone else who keeps writing about how this thing will kill the birds. In case you forgot, the mirror will reflect the bird too. So unless the bird is trying to win a game of chicken, it will probably not try to fly into another bird. But if it does we should record it and put it on Youtube.

  • Stephen · 10 months ago

    Even if you DO have a ladder, what happens when the tree keeps growing and the house gets higher and higher off the ground? And what happens when the tree keeps growing in girth? The floor which tightly surrounds the tree will start to buckle. Are these architechts or middle schoolers?

  • B Thomas · 10 months ago

    This fad of "sustainable" is anything but. It is a mere gimmick, and not a truly naturally sustainable or green building. You want to claim minimal disturbance? so how's all that construction traffic, cranes and what not going to affect the environment. Are all the materials natural to the area? Why would you want to hide it? The beauty would be in intertwining it with the natural world, not trying to hide it from it. This is a gimmick, a ploy, and it is not sustainable... unless your definition is they earned so many points from LEEDS....

  • Treetraveler · 10 months ago

    Believe it or not, the tree itself is not likely to enjoy the house. Whatever you have to use to support the house against the tree will cause some sort of damage to the tree, which will leave many places for disease to get into it, promoting decay (which is not good for the future of your house). Trees also grow, if the tree grows into the edges of the house, it will become girdled (meaning that the cambial layer of the tree that is enables growth will be cut off, actually killing the tree). Additionally, with the bark enclosed, it is likely that the bark would become damp, promoting mold and decay.

  • c nicholson · 10 months ago

    I,ve never seen anything like that. It,s like an illusion for birds i mean they might think it,s a tree there but it really isn,t.

  • Brandon · 10 months ago

    ok im not sure anyone really read the article correctly, it said the sides are mirrors.....think about it, when u look at a mirror what happens? it reflects ur image....ok now think very carefully.....if a bird is flying at it and sees its own reflection do u honestly think its going to continue to fly at the on coming bird?..........i dont think so, birds arent the smartest thing around but i dont think they are dumb enough to fly right into another bird or a mirrored image of its self. come on people, the only reason birds fly into windows is because they are clear and they dont see it until its to late. birds are not going to fly into it and if they do well serves them right, they should pay attention to what they are doing.

  • c nicholson · 10 months ago

    it,s like the cartoons you know like the road runner chasung wile e coyote and he paints what looks like a picture of a road but he runs into a wall.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I think that's awesome. And about the bird kills...well windows kill birds, too. So let's ban windows! let's remove the glass from our planet! let's make our lives less beautiful and comfortable to save a few birds. Don't birds get killed mainly by other animals or hunters? But NOO u gotta criticise the beauty of art ! People invent NUCLEAR BOMBS that can destroy the planet and some of u are still crying about a few birds accidentaly killed by a mirror/glass. Get real and enjoy the greatness of this idea! it's a really cool think! I'd like to see it in a big city. Can u imagine a mirror cube hanging from a skyscraper in NY and there is someone there, cooking :D Stop criticising everything.

  • myvettegets5mpg · 10 months ago

    Why do liberals hate free speech by deleting posts?

  • Bokeh · 10 months ago

    Bird problems, lack of truly having anything to do with Green, this cube shows little environmental friendliness at best. For me it is Art, an interesting display of light, reflection, their constant visual change in surroundings. It is clearly relatable to the Minimal movement in sculpture, plus you can live in it. I think each of us probably have a different opinion as to what value that gives this project, especially weighed against the false environmental twist being presented. Love all your comments!

  • Jesus · 10 months ago

    In response to "but god and jesus still love you "



    I don't know about God, but I have not made such a proclamation.

  • ooohNO · 10 months ago

    Several points:

    - We are expanding all the time our human habitats at the detriment of the animals. Give them a break, between road kills and "innovations" like this one.

    - Let's keep the forests pristine instead of trying to make it "green". There isn't any greener way than nature itself and anything we bring in it can't be as pristine as that.

    - Garbage disposal: knowing how most of humans leave behind them cigarettes, plastic bags and plastic bottles or beer cans just while hiking...

    - How is the tree going to react to something hanging around it? Will it develop its covered trunk differently and what will be the consequences for the tree and for the building?

    - Birds issue. "Survival of the fittest" is disrespectful and irresponsible "Jeff", especially when you put in the balance a life versus another building for a hotel...

    - glass and mirrors:what about glare and heat? Does that mean that this small cabin will need AC in summer and heating in winter plus electricity and maintenance?

    - Bathroom: nature? I can smell it from here... and hear flies, and see toilet paper all over the place. mmmmmh!!

  • Jesus · 10 months ago

    Honey, you know that perfect spot we have looked for vacationing? I just found it ...



    That is how my divorce began.

  • Mateo Hogan · 10 months ago

    Interesting idea, although ventilation and negative impacts on wildlife (I also see a lot of bird fatalities from flying into the glass) would be challenging. We have had to mount mobiles outside of the screen windows of our tree houses to stop the 900 species of birds down here from flying into the house during their daily rounds through the rainforest canopy.



    If you'd like to have a look at another tree-hugging alternative to living in the trees, have a look at our "Ewok-esque" community here in Costa Rica at www.fincabellavista.net.</p>

    Keep the positive green-thoughts flowing.



    Pura vida~

    Mateo

  • Star · 10 months ago

    I'm just sitting back and laughing about how people are whining about the possible birds that could die hitting this thing. I think all my life I've seen ONE bird hit a window - lightly at that, and survive.



    I don't think this thing is "green," but it is pretty to look at - a work of art!

  • jack swallows · 10 months ago

    this is some wack shit

  • EJ · 10 months ago

    Just gave me the idea to mirror the side of a tree house I am building that faces the nosy nasty neighbors, hee hee. Thanks!

  • Jonas · 10 months ago

    I've helped teach University level ornithology... Anyway... birds will definitely fly into mirrored glass. Besides that... these things look redunculous anyway. Ecotourists who support tacky garbage like this don't know anything, aren't "green" and can suck it, to be frank.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Ridiculous. Just put a fake owl or hawk on top and you would solve your bird problem. To me it doesn't fit for a tree house. Thats not what I would draw up in my mind. Imagine a house covered in mirrors. I like the traditional look.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    In response to:



    "If it is cold inside, how do I get warmed?"



    No worries, there's a huge log running right through the middle of your house! Just chop out a little section and toss it on the stove.

  • steve · 10 months ago

    That is great. I am a hunter and have a ground blind made out of this type of material. The best thing is the deer don't have a clue your there. Works great have had deer and hogs within 10 yards of me.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    It doesnt matter what people do, there are always poeple that will complain.

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    what a dumb story. waste of time and money

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I feel that the design is no respect for the tree. why do the tree need to be suffocating the tree? Can't the house stand on it's own feet?





  • Nichole · 10 months ago

    Wait....I have an idea. It's called a TENT. If you want to really be green and at the same time get away from it all, go camping. If someone wants to be in the woods yet still needs a "hotel" then you probably shouldn't be out there in the first place. This idea is L.A.M.E.

  • patrick · 10 months ago

    Treehouse cloaking device - ENGAGE!

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    Anyone ever seen the "Bean" in Chicago? Same beautiful mirrored glass that blends into the city making it "invisible." Yet there are always birds perched ON TOP of it...not laying dead beside it. All in all- appreciate it for being a great piece of art, because that's what it is. And for those of you who believe tree houses are the absolute lowest form of architecture I beg you to google tree houses and see how truly amazing tree houses can be.



    See this link:



    http://lh5.ggpht.com/_axny2ZFgLyo/SGBKCuYOi-I/AAAAAAAAAKE/GTWFIMPEkrs/IMG_0061.JPG

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    By the way- if anyone took the time to actually go to the architect's website and seek more info- the website explains that there is in fact a bathroom and kitchenette as well as a ladder and rope bridge entrance/exit. Not only that, but i also explains "Stickers on the glass, using a technique visible for birds only, will prevent birds from colliding with the tree hotel."



    Please don't knock the architect's design without getting all the proper information first.

  • ecto · 10 months ago

    Not a new idea. There was an art exhibit in 2004 entitled "Don’t Miss A Sec" in London that looked like that on a city street near the river Thames across from the Tate Britain, It was a bathroom that was two way mirrored you could see out all around you, but people couldn't see in, but they said it wasn't used much. people were always pressing their faces on it to try and look in.

  • DeerHunter · 10 months ago

    That is awsome!!I want one so I can use it as a deer stand.I could stay all day long in that thing and hunt.It is just a matter of time until they are on the market for deer hunters!!!Hurray!!

  • Natali · 10 months ago

    Add a bathroom and I am so there!! What if a bird doesnt see it though, and crashes?

  • Anonymous · 10 months ago

    I would be surprised if this caused enough bird deaths to put any species or population at risk.

    The more important concern is....... how do you keep it clean?

  • bj7777 · 10 months ago

    Lloyd, what were you (or your editors) thinking? I love the concept of a treehouse as much as the next nature lover, but this is simply bad design. Just because something is beautiful, in the wrong context it is a disater. The architect's website suggests that stickers visible only to birds will prevent them from colliding with the reflective glass of this Swedish tree hotel concept. I found myself checking the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1. What a lovely/foolish/sadistic joke. I am disappointed in TreeHugger. This is not sustainable.

  • Brad · 10 months ago

    Wont the mirriors reflect light to the under side of the tree leaves and cause them to burn and injure the tree?

  • TeachingDuma$ses · 10 months ago

    This is in response to the nimrod who said birds have depth perception and will see a solid object like a mirror and won't run into it because it not clear like a window. Correct me if I'm wrong but wont a mirror reflect the trees, ground, opens spaces, sky, clouds etc...? Duh I know it will, and with that said if it looks like open space or sky, THUD goes the bird. and if the bird sees a tree reflected that looks to be ten feet away, once again THUD goes the bird. And last if the birds depth perception tell it that the branch is there to land on but it is not because its a reflection, HMMMMMMM what might happen? I'll help you out, THUD goes the bird. Please try to get out of you little trailer and learn something rather than just watching your greeny channels and feeling good about your good intentions.

  • Matt · 10 months ago

    Yall arent very smart. That is going to help kill alot of deer. Thanks for the new camoflauge deer blind treehuggers! You are finally getting the picture on how to control wildlife populations!

  • kansan · 10 months ago

    Bird; Hey I can see myself, what's up with that? SPLAT! Generally a birds first experience with it's reflection in a mirror or window is fatal one, no need to refer to them as stupid. That would be like calling a toddler that took a swig of drain unattended opener stupid. The only truly stupid beings are adult humans.



    On that toilet with the 2 way mirror enclosure. What fun it would be to take photos of those pressing against the mirror and posting them on a web page. Would anyone trying to violate an other's privacy deserve privacy?

  • OLLIE THE OWL (and yes, i am r · 10 months ago

    EASY NOW, EASY NOW...I AM WRITING THIS TO EASE EVERYONE'S MIND HERE... COMING FROM A BIRD'S POINT OF VIEW HERE (LITERALLY).



    MY NAME IS OLLIE, AND I HAPPEN TO BE AN OWL (I'M NOT KIDDING, THIS IS AS GENUINE AS YOU'RE GONNA FIND ON THIS BLOG) MY FAMILY AND I LIVE 8 PINES AND 3 CYPRESS TREES BEHIND THIS VERY TREEHOUSE BEING ARGUED OVER IN THESE READER COMMENTS (WHICH ARE HIGHLY ENTERTAINING BY THE WAY; WE'VE BEEN READING THEM ALL DAY AT OUR FAVORITE COFFEE HOUSE - THEY HAVE FREE WI-FI, AND WE JUST HANG OUT UP ON THE LIGHT POSTS READING WHAT YOU ALL ARE SAYING HERE, LOOKING OVER THE "HUMIES" SHOULDERS (HUMIES IS WHAT WE CALL ALL YOU UPRIGHT WALKERS). SO'S I FINALLY GOT THE NERVE UP, AFTER MY LOVELY WIFE ROXIE, PRETTIEST RAVEN YOU HAVE EVER LAID YOUR EYES UPON... ANYWAY, SHE SAYS TO ME, FLY DOWN AND JUST ASK ONE OF THOSE COFFEE JUNKIES IF YOU CAN TAKE A SHOT AT USING THEIR LAPTOP? I MEAN, WHAT'S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN? NOTHING, BECAUSE WHO HAS HEARD AN OWL TALK - MUCH LESS ASK TO USE YOUR COMPUTER? SO THEY WERE TRIPPING OUT, AND IT TURNED IN TO A MEGA LOVE FEST WITH THE "HUMIES" AS WE LIKE TO CALL YOU ALL, AND THE "FEATHERED ONES" HERE.



    AND SOOOOO, HERE I AM, AN OWL HERE TO TELL YOU THE REALITY OF THIS WHOOOOOLE THING. IT'S ACTUALLY VERY NICE. WE GOT TO SEE OURSELVES FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN THOSE TREEHOUSE MIRRORS... IT WAS QUITE EMOTIONAL. ALL MY FEATHERED GUY FRIENDS WOKE UP EARLY TO GATHER AROUND AND SHAVE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, AS ALL OUR LITTLE BOY CHICKADEES WATCHED AND LEARNED IN UTTER AWE! SOME MAJOR MALE BIRD BONDING WENT ON THAT DAY.



    AND THE FEATHERED LADIES, OHHH, THEY COULDN'T STAY AWAY FROM THE MIRRORS! THEY PRIMPED AND POWDERED THEIR NOSES, I MEAN THEIR BEAKS, THEY FELT AND LOOKED SO PRETTY AND HAPPY. ONLY PROBLEM I CAN SEE SO FAR IS OUR FEATHERED LADIES ARE SPENDING A LITTLE TOO MUCH TIME LOOKING AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRRORS - ROXIE ASKED ME THIS MORNING, "DOES MY TAIL FEATHERS LOOK AS FAT AS THAT TREEHOUSE MIRROR MAKES THEM LOOK?" OF COURSE, BEING THE WISE OWL I AM, I SAID "NO, ROXIE, YOUR LITTLE BIRD BODY IS SO TIGHT, MA" YEH, WE GOTTA DO IT TOO, I THINK IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD WITH EVERY SPECIES.





    SINCE I AM THE ONLY TRUE BIRD POSTING, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE PLENTY OF CREDIBILITY AND I WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS. BUT FIRST, LET ME SAY, THE MIRRORED TREEHOUSE IS GOOD. THESE COMPUTERS ON THE OTHER HAND, I MEAN WING, ARE USING UP ALL OF YOU HUMIES' TIME. DON'T DILLY-DALLY ABOUT US BIRDS, SITTING THERE ON YOUR FINE, EXPENSIVE PC, LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. WE ARE FINE! YOU ALL, ON THE OTHER HAND, I MEAN WING AGAIN, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT. LOOK AROUND YOU. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ON YOUR COMPUTER JUST TODAY? WHAT HAVE YOUR KIDS BEEN DOING WHILE YOU'VE BEEN ON IT? I MEAN, IT'S NOT ALL BAD, I KNOW... JUST TAKE SOME TIME OFF - A VACATION AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER... AND COME OUT IN THAT FOREST, IN THEM WOODS, OR OUT IN YOUR BACKYARD. CHECK IT OUT. LET THE SUNSHINE ON YOUR FACE. IF YOU SEE A MIRRORED BUILDING OUT THERE, GET JUST A LITTLE CLOSER AND PRIMP OR SHAVE OR COMB YOUR HAIR OR FLEX YOUR BICEPS, WHATEVER... AND ENJOY YOUR SURROUNDINGS. AM I SAYING NONE OF US ARE GOING TO SMASH INTO IT AND DIE? OF COURSE NOT. BUT CAN YOU HUMIES ASSURE ME THAT NONE OF YOU ARE GOING GET SMASHED/HURT/KILLED/DROWNED/, ETC.? NO, DO YOU SEE MY POINT. DON'T WORRY ABOUT US BIRDS IN THE FOREST. HELLO, WE ARE OK. TAKE INVENTORY OF YOUR OWN LIVES, AND SPEND TIME WITH THE ONES YOU LOVE WHILE YOU HAVE THE TIME - BECAUSE WE ARE ALL GOD'S CREATURES AND WE ALL GOTTA GO WHEN HE CALLS US. LOVE YOUR PEOPLES, BE FOR REAL, AND KNOW YOUR MAKER, BECAUSE WE ALL GONNA MEET HIM FACE TO FACE WHEN WE DO GET SMASHED OR FLATTENED, OR WHATEVER IS IN EACH OF OUR FUTURES.



    SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, WE ALRIGHT. WORRY ABOUT MORE IMPORTANT THINGS.



    P.S. THOSE MIRRORS ARE GREAT TO MATE IN FRONT OF TOO - HAVE ANY OF YOU HUMIES TRIED THAT YET? THAT'S SWEEEEEET RIGHT THUR!



    GOTTA FLY NOW - OUR DAUGHTER McKENZIE HAS HER YODELING LESSONS I HAVE TO GET HER TO (SHE'S OUR LITTLE MOCKING BIRD)



    GOD BLESS THE HUMIES, AND THE FEATHERED ONES TOO!

  • Colin Waters · 10 months ago

    I absolutely love it. Maybe they could take this idea and apply it to cell phone towers. Although I am a fan of the towers that look like trees.

  • cracker cracka · 10 months ago

    oh i hope the tree falls and starts a huge spark, then see what the deer do. . . . . only joking ;]





    not really. . . . . .

  • David · 10 months ago

    Is there a way where they can cut down all those trees around the tree house. They're blocking the view... Just kidding. Birds fly into clear glass right. However they wont fly into the treehouse because it's reflective glass, just like water reflects. How many drowned birds have you seen. People there are many things in nature that reflect. Another thing would it be better to just do what people normaly do; cut down the trees and build what they want there. So you want the tree house or a building with no birds around.

  • KSiimson · 10 months ago

    Ugh, gazillion comments about birds. FYI, they will have stickers on it that will be visible to them.

  • E.R. Dunhill · 10 months ago

    How is a superfluous building that can't be occupied for more than a few hours at a time environmentally-friendly? If people want an low impact way to stay outside, they should consider a tent. Tents are lightweight, inexpensive (relative to permanent structures), require little energy to produce, and can leave with visitors. You can even get them made out of cotton, if you want a biodegradable option.

  • Atlantajan · 10 months ago

    If I were Queen of the Universe, I would outlaw reflective glass buildings and any building over three stories built in a migratory flyway.



    The twin towers in NY were built in a flyway, and every morning a group of birders would go out to pick up dead and dying songbirds.



    This is horrendous. The slaughter will be significant.

  • Michael Duran · 10 months ago

    Hey... I just wanted to add another comment about bird deaths and about how this would make a great hunting blind....

  • B · 10 months ago

    In addition to Michael's poignant comments above, I would like to add that this would also be disastrous for birds. It would make a great hunting blind, however. I don't know why others haven't made similar conclusions.

  • john · 10 months ago

    I for one would love to break that POS. It no more belongs in a forest on a tree than I do standing naked on the moon. A hunting blind? If you are so lame that you think this would make a good blind, maybe you yourself need to be hunted (and then slowly cooked and eaten). I mean really; only a complete asshat would put mirrors in a forest. If I ever see one of these I WILL break it.

  • John K · 9 months ago

    I think interestingly enough this could help provide food for disabled hunters. A disabled hunter could put a retrievable net underneath and then sit and wait. Once the disabled hunter hears an impact on the glass he could look out and see where the bird landed and retrieve the appropriate portion of the net.



    He'd (or she) then have a fresh bird to pluck, cook and eat. Nature giving back to the less physically capable people would be an incredible bit of symbolism.



    Can you imagine the circle of life that would be displayed here? Especially if the hunter had become disabled because of a hunting accident or from falling from a tree.



    It would truly show that mother nature is sorry for hurting that person and is there to serve that disabled person.



    This is just an amazing thing... Nature at its most humble and at its most productive.

  • poppi · 9 months ago

    clearly not much thought went to this project, it can be topped by buildind a duplicate at the base of the tree for the animals that cant fly so you dopes can kill the whole forest, sad part is this idea was probably funded with our money by more people screwing up the system and then looking for us poor working slobs to bail out their dumb schemes again. ya just can't fix stupid..

  • FlyGirl · 5 months ago

    um hello any other pilots out there besides me?... aviation hazard...

  • tiffnay jewellery · 1 month ago
    Then, the suburb expands as new homes implement the best ideas from the first ones. And, of course, it would never really leave beta.