Auerworld Palace: Auerstedt, Germany

Auerworld Palace | Auerstedt, Germany | Atlas Obscura

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Weaving live saplings together to form a kind of domed cathedral space, architect Marcel Kalberer and his group Sanfte Strukturen are re-envisioning the way living building materials and techniques can be used to design modern spaces. Constructed in 1998, the Auerworld Palace in Aeurstedt, Germany was their first "willow palace' project, taking the efforts of 300 volunteers to build. The palace is just 10 years old - the techniques, however, are ancient. The Sumerian reed houses of Mesopotamia were famous for their construction of tightly bound reeds, and in Europe smaller outbuildings have been made of woven plants and trees for hundreds of years. Most of these are built from green branches, though. In this case the whole tree is woven into place to form a living structure.

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Hotel Invites Artists to Stay, Pay with Works of Art (Damn, Poets Not Included)

Room service: Berlin hotel tells artists to pay for stay with artwork, not cash | Art and design | The Guardian

A five-star hotel in Berlin has opened its doors to cash-strapped artists, asking them to pay for bed and board not with money but with a work of art.

The offer from the Hotel Marienbad in Auguststrasse is open to painters, sculptors or conceptual artists willing to "subject the hotel to permanent change" with their efforts.

Susanne Pfeffer, curator of the Kunst-Werke Institute of Contemporary Art, which set up the project, said: "As long as they come from outside Berlin and need a bed for the night, everyone is welcome, though we've got such a long waiting list that we are very careful about picking and choosing our guests."

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