Friday, April 10, 2009

Wood-bender Chris Mroz: Ahead of the curve | The News Tribune - TOP BUSINESS | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination

Wood-bender Chris Mroz: Ahead of the curve | The News Tribune - TOP BUSINESS | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination: "Imagine an indoor park four times the size of downtown Tacoma’s Tollefson Plaza – with a tiered amphitheater, rolling hills and winding paths formed entirely of bent red oak planks.

A premier London landscape architect imagined it. Chris Mroz, an innovative Gig Harbor woodbender, may get the chance to build it.

Mroz likes his chances. Martha Schwartz Partners created the concept for a $1.6 billion development in Seoul, South Korea, around Mroz’s technological woodbending method – the only one of its kind in the Americas."

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This is amazing, but I'm sure no HOA will allow this sort of thing because wood is supposed to be straight and bent wood is bad for property values.

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