buildings camouflaged by reflective materials are all the rage, and very cool they are too. just this week architizer made much of the invisible barn (a beaut!) and coincidentally, some weeks ago vaughn sent me to the website of tham & videgard to admire their treehotel. i was of course madly taken at first sight, for i have always been desirous of being in treehouses. (admittedly the climbing of trees is an activity which seldom presses itself upon me, my actual experience being limited to just the one tree in a vancouver backyard when i was six, so this panting adoration of treehouses speaks to romance more than actual knowledge.) i loved especially that for the harads project “a transparent ultraviolet colour is laminated into the glass panes which are visible for birds only.” apart from one not wishing to feel like one were living in a daphne du maurier story i should hate that our love of beauty were shorn of consideration for other creatures!
Best of the Transparent Hummingbird