The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant is Finished
Regular Contemporist readers might remember that back in November we posted about the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant being built on a site north of Auckland, New Zealand….well, it’s now complete, and they’ve sent us photos.
You can read our original post about the Treehouse – here.
The Treehouse was designed by architects Peter Eising and Lucy Gauntlett from Pacific Environments Architects. Lucy Gauntlett was also the photographer of these photos.
Visit the Pacific Environments Architects website – here.
Visit the website for the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant – here.
alexandre on 22 Dec 2008 at 5:35 pm #
It’s even prettier than the project! Great!
Leah Klein on 22 Dec 2008 at 6:29 pm #
That looks divine. When will they be building one a little closer to Boston?
I’d love to see what the reviews and comments are that they get.
Leah Klein
Boston Family Foodie
Leif Miltenberger on 22 Dec 2008 at 6:41 pm #
Beautiful!
It’s like if Ewoks made an onion restaurant!
liz on 22 Dec 2008 at 11:33 pm #
i can’t help but wonder…what if it rains?
or is there some detail i’m missing?
Giro on 23 Dec 2008 at 1:36 am #
just saw this time-lapse webcam of the whole treehouse build – very cool…
http://www.yellowtreehouse.co.nz/#/See-Whats-Happening/Webcam/
tomas foster on 23 Dec 2008 at 8:29 am #
where is the kitchen?where does all the rubbish go?how is the water and electricity suplied?is it really enviroment friendly?
michelle on 23 Dec 2008 at 11:21 am #
what fun that must be!
O. on 23 Dec 2008 at 1:00 pm #
Lovely!
Darrel on 23 Dec 2008 at 2:09 pm #
Very cool…but…what, exactly, is the business? If you go to the site, it looks like some sort of attempted viral ad campaign for the yellow page?
Dave on 23 Dec 2008 at 2:51 pm #
The restaurant is a marketing promotion to show that no matter what your project is, the Yellow Pages can help you complete it. To prove it, they built a restaurant 10 metres up a redwood tree, and they sourced all products and services through Yellow Pages listings.
wayne williams on 07 Jan 2009 at 1:19 pm #
From what I understand, this was a “I can do anything I want to” project. You can rest assured that this would be a very green result as polution and sustainability are now key and must do’s in NZ’s thinking and planning for the future. It is a very positive shift and long overdue. Congratulations on the achievement.
Scott & Amber on 07 Jan 2009 at 2:57 pm #
Get some good kindling off that tree!
Well done on the design, very unique and typical kiwi-ana.
Agree with Wayne Williams comments, wise man.
Hi from Belfast!
Heather on 25 Jan 2009 at 3:44 pm #
Oh my gosh, this is incredible; whimsical and breathtaking. It reminds me of a beautiful, glowing onion up in the trees…
Amazing!!
LaShea Miller on 21 Feb 2009 at 2:37 pm #
What it be something if there was a franchise of this restaurant in every major city in the world. That would be awesome!!!
Dan Massicotte on 21 Feb 2009 at 2:54 pm #
I’ll bet John Chow would fly from BC just to eat a sandwich here!
John Doe on 21 Feb 2009 at 10:53 pm #
This restaurant is for the birds! =)
jeng on 24 Feb 2009 at 12:28 pm #
where the hell does the food come from.
squirrel anybody?
Dave on 24 Feb 2009 at 12:30 pm #
Kitchen/catering facilities and toilets are at ground level
dan on 28 Feb 2009 at 6:16 am #
Do we look for a hostess named Galadriel?
Mario on 19 Mar 2009 at 3:50 pm #
What do they serve? Branch?
Secret on 11 Apr 2009 at 11:41 am #
it’s amazing ! but it can use only sunny days.
Name (required) on 17 May 2009 at 9:23 pm #
Stunning, but… Look at how much wood they used, the amount of light pollution it seems to pump out at night, and the completely cleared woodland floor. Maybe that’s asking too much, or maybe a massive tree-house restaurant isn’t as environmentally friendly as it appears at first glance.
I’d like to one made out of on-site manufactured cob and all recycled material, a live roof growing the salads they serve, passive solar heating, a low-combustion wood burning stove for baking, solar collectors for heating water, with solar panels (and maybe a small wind turbine) generating electricity.
I hate to be such a kill-joy, it’s just painful to see contemporary building remain in the same rut as any other style of construction. You can give something a ‘green’ look and feel and design, but it comes down to advancing more than that.
Whoops: I just realized it was a phone directory company promotion project. Thousands of pages handed out to every customer every year of numbers they probably will never, ever, look at? Also not the most environmentally friendly practice to take up…
Also, I swear I’m not the awkward, dirty, pot-smoking hippie you must be imagining right now. Actually, I’m just a kid who is tired of everyone putting green paint on things that are still black.
And I really do find this tree house stunning. No one can deny how impressive and simply beautiful it is.
Cheers.
jstema on 23 May 2009 at 2:13 pm #
What happens when the tree dies?…-_-
Pushkaraj Bidwai on 24 Jun 2009 at 8:29 am #
I had made a business plan about such a restaurant for a Business school competition. The judges had a nice time laughing at my plan…. Would love to show them these pics….
I would be making the same in India if someone would fund me for my business plan.
Livy on 11 Jul 2009 at 3:35 am #
The estaurant is soooo kool! It would be better with a live orchestra or something…. I wnder how many tables it holds?
Kimberly @ Restaurant Reviews on 17 Jul 2009 at 2:42 pm #
Wow – This looks mesmerizing, doesn’t it?
I’m a serious foodie (& food writer) and would love to visit this magical place!
Wow!
Kimberly
Harshal on 05 Sep 2009 at 7:14 am #
Beyond imagination. its really amazing and adventures as well.
Sam on 17 Oct 2009 at 3:00 pm #
I think its great & even if it has come about from a Yellow pages promotion it pushes the boundries of architecture once more. I havent seen anything quite as innovative as this for a while….deffinately up there with Villa Savoy, Gaudi’s work albeit on a smaller kiwi scale.
nice one
hippatrum on 16 Nov 2009 at 1:36 pm #
perfect for a wedding! But only for non smokers…..