Ken Ohrn went for a walk before seeing a movie, and found this sculpture. “All it needs now is a giant bicycle, don’t’cha think?”
It’s located on Main St. at 18th Avenue, where a forlorn stretch of grass has been turned into a neighbourhood plaza. Check the guy setting out a picnic lunch.
After I shipped this photo around a while ago, I had a fun and light-hearted to-and-fro with one of our terrific local bike manufacturers (Brodie) about making the huge bike to go with this. I also posted a number of photos of other local sculptures that are giant representations of ordinary objects.
This is not an over scaled bike rack, its a bendy-straw trellis, a whimsical reference to the former Palm Dairy milk bar that occupied the site from 1952-1989. Designed by Hapa Collaborative.
http://www.hapacobo.com/projects/
Scot – thanks for adding this. It embellishes the already whimsical approach taken by one of our leading young landscape firms – Hapa Collaborative. A simple idea writ very large, open to multiple interpretations, as most true art is. The siting of this colourful piece in the bend in the road of Main Streeet at 18th Avenue makes it a very prominent reference indeed, especially in the southbound direction.
I was really impressed with this pocket park when I visited it this summer. Excellent use of materials, details, scale and planting. The firms contemporary approach to space and form is refreshing in Vancouver and hopefully will help push the boundaries in Landscape Architecture in the city which in my opinion is still way too conservative and grey. Hapa also just finished a cool laneway for the City of Langley. Kudos to the City of Vancouver for making Mid-Main something cool and not just an easement afterthought, now if we could just unchanged the table and chairs and trust people like Bryant Park.
My uncle was a huge part of this