Let's Go For A Walk In The Woods

The Birch Moss Chapel

This has got to be one of the loveliest architectural concepts I have ever seen. Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma and Associates built a chapel in the mountain town of Karuizawa, in Japan’s Nagano prefecture out of birch trees, steel, glass, acrylic, and moss. This lyrical, stunning structure is perfectly camouflaged among its surroundings. The architects used the birch trees as pillars and the stone and moss-covered pathway that leads to the chapel continues inside, blurring the line even more. A glass curtain wall and acrylic pews allow only the natural aspects of this special place to be present.

https://kkaa.co.jp/works/architecture/birch-moss-chapel/

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Anthony James

Anthony James dissects birch forests and mounts the results in clinical, mirrored boxes lit with white neon...

...and then in the same way, he mounts the car that crashed into the birch forest.

Top to bottom: Birch Cube; Birch Cube detail; Birch Wall Mounted; Birch Quad; three views of KO

http://www.anthonyjamesstudio.com/