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As if Bali’s beautiful seascape and tropical weather weren’t alluring enough, the Southeast Asian country boasts one of the most amazing examples we’ve seen of sustainable design — a six-story structure created by architect Elora Hardy and made almost entirely of bamboo.
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Now we’ve seen treehouses before. But Sharma Springs, as the building is called, gets extra awesome points for being completely handmade (“it was built from a scaled-down bamboo model, not from the blueprints and drawings,” Hardy explained to New York magazine) and for housing a library and a spa (in addition to the lucky family who gets to live there).