Tel Aviv “Monkey”
by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet
I have absolutely no background for this, but apparently there’s a monkey on top of Tel Aviv’s city hall. Pretty great photo by my friend Jax.
Update:
Ah, ok, it’s actually a duck. I jumped the gun a little bit by posting it without doing further research. Artist Dudu Geva thought Tel Aviv was so ugly he created some funny animals to liven things up a little.
“My initiative stems from the fact that the city is lost,” Geva wrote in 2003 in the Tel Aviv newspaper Ha’Ir. “Tel Aviv is so ugly that you need to erase entire streets and start from scratch. At least let us decorate and celebrate in the streets. The city hall is a lost building. If a giant duck were placed on its roof, everything would change.”
Tags: Architecture, fun, Urban
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June 30th, 2008