Saturday 4 August 2012

One man's trash ....

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Tom Fruin has created the latest masterpiece to grace the New York skyline. Specifically, New York rather than Manhattan as the piece in question is in DUMBO,  Brooklyn - possibly the best place name ever!



Well DUMBO just got more exciting thanks to Tom's water tower sculpture. The tower is made of salvaged plexiglass from all over the city and scraps of steel. There are approximately 100 pieces of  plexiglass in the piece. I had thought that this was actually an old water tower that had been refurbished but apparently it was made from scratch.

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Unsurprisingly it reminds me of post-war stained glass church windows.

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Think London could do with one of these - much better than a Bvlgari hotel!