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Seattle Daily Journal April 30, 2008

Architecture & Engineering

April 30, 2008
Seven-unit, live/work project is his biggest ’sculpture’ yet
• Sculptor and teacher Tom Flood wants to put a “living building” on a corner in Madrona. A living fence will show graywater being treated on site.
By SHAWNA GAMACHE Journal Staff Reporter
Tom Flood is an unlikely developer. He is a sculptor who teaches at the Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has also taught sculpting and welding at Madrona Auto, his vintage gas station-turned shop and studio at 34th Avenue East Pike S
For the past several years, Flood said he felt like there was something missing from his work. As he grew disillusioned with making static objects, he turned his focus to his property, to the quirky but aging buildings, one where he no longer feels it is safe to hold classes and the other rented out to a real estate company.
His dream is to create a new building that empowers its inhabitants and adds to the neighborhood’s pedestrian streetscape. Next month Flood’s biggest sculpture — a seven-unit live/work project called Pike Station — will have its second design review.
Rendering by atelierjones.