Stumbled on a very large tulip doubling as a bike rack in a very small front garden at the Moving Poets studio complex. Was there for the Kunst am Spreeknie art festival happening this weekend, which includes a free solar ferry up and down the Spree river! The Spreeknie is a kink in the river that really does look like a knee.
Update: more pictures from our field trip in this post from Beton + Garten.
Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’
Berlin: Giant tulip on the Spreeknie
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged fake plants, flowers, funny, public art, sculpture, tulip on 20 July 2013| 4 Comments »
Lyon, France: Flower power, or, bouquet tree
Posted in Plants worldwide, tagged cities, flowers, France, Lyon, sculpture on 12 November 2011| Leave a Comment »
Urban Tumbleweeds in Redwood City, NYC, Nevada
Posted in Plants elsewhere in NYC, Projects from others, tagged California, installation, park, plastic bag, redwood city, sculpture, train station, tumbleweed, weeds, wild west on 22 June 2009| 8 Comments »
Today’s photo comes courtesy of reader and sister Phoebe, who writes from California: “In a town covered in pavement, aka Redwood City, the origins of this 4 foot wide tumbleweed is a mystery.” (more…)
Brooklyn: Drainpipe tree revisited, frozen
Posted in Brooklyn plants, tagged Brooklyn, drainpipe, icicles, sculpture, winter on 20 January 2009| 4 Comments »
This morning, I passed by the drainpipe tree on 17th St./5th Ave. that I had observed many times last summer. I was astonished yet again to find its foliage replaced by an array of spiky icicles!
Berlin, Entry 34: Tree-trash in the street
Posted in Berlin plants, tagged Berlin, caution tape, city, discarded, Friedrichshain, parking, sculpture, street, trash, tree on 14 November 2008| Leave a Comment »
9 September 2008, ca. 18:00
Bödikerstaße, between Persiusstr. and Corinthsstr., Friedrichshain, Berlin