The best I could was an old billboard frame which had it's sign blown away and hasn't been replaced.
Mostly bamboo is seen as an ornamental plant in the parks.
Here the bamboo is shaped a "hyperboloid of one sheet". The same shape as the sodium channel in a cell membrane.
But bamboo has a long history in Chinese history from being the first medium on which characters written to the only food pandas will eat. Many new buildings have windows with anti theft bars shaped like bamboo. They are shaped cement.
Here is a coffee/tea room use of bamboo. It's days as a building structural material seem over.
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As a gardener, I was always cautioned about bamboo--that it can spread like crazy and needs to be contained. It never seems to have taken off in the US as an important plant, although I think it is very attractive. One item of note from the sewing world--bamboo is one of the new hot materials used for cloth. Some claim that cloth made from bamboo is anti-microbial and will keep you from smelling while you sweat. The bamboo cloth is like rayon and feels very soft. Currently it is pricey!
I bought many pairs of socks on sale made by bamboo. So far I didn’t see any difference. Maybe I should wear them many days to test it out But I read Wall street Journal that Bamboo actually takes more energy to extract the fiber. It is just like eternal energy. It is actually not green.
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