• A Plumbing System That Grows Like a Forest

    By Annalee Newitz, 8:30 AM on Wed Oct 7 2009, 2,151 views

    The problem with growing your plumbing system out of self-assembling PVC megatubes? Sometimes it turns out looking more like a jungle than an orderly set of pipes. That's what designer Makoto Tanijiri shows us in these photographs of "Nature Factory."

    Tanijiri is a Japanese designer who was hired to create the interior of Diesel's "Denim Gallery" in Tokyo. He decided to aim for a strange blend of the organic and industrial in this tangled forest of white pipes that crawl over all the walls in the store.

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    By Annalee Newitz
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    A Plumbing System That Grows Like a Forest

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