Located in the depths of the mythical “Hundred-Acre Woods, the “Tangled Tree Tavern” is a QSR (Quick Serve Restaurant) that is fashioned after the “Pub Thugs”. The visual concept of the tavern is one that is built next to an enormous tree that over the decades of life in the woods has nudged itself against the tavern, slowly having its roots take over it’s spot in the forest. The interior of the tavern is decorated with the spoils of a lives lived as lumberjacks deep within the woods and is themed to look like it was built by hand buy the “Pub Thugs” themselves!
Donnie worked for a world-renowned international themed entertainment company with Cotton-Fontana Architects for a 5.5 billion-dollar theme park in Shanghai, China. Donnie served as the Senior Project Manager for an eventual 50-person firm and worked on three different themed “lands”. Donnie spent most of the first six months of 2013 in Shanghai assisting the local architectural firms, referred to as L.D.I.’s (Local Design Institutes), with the completion of the Construction Documents Phase of the project.