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

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Oliver Storz (l), Ferdinand Ludwig (c) and Hannes Schwertfeger (r) call their new specialty "building botany." They are part of a research group at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Basics in Modern Architectural Design.

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