SYDNEY -- Most know the Australian city for the Sydney Harbour Bridge or the Sydney Opera House. Now it may be known as the place of the giant Cloud Arch or the oversized Milk Crate.
Although Melbourne still generally wins in the ugly stakes -- Federation Square has been described as a local disgrace since its constuction -- the people of Sydney are not talking kindly about two new artworks coming to their city.
The Cloud Arch by Japanese artist Junya Ishigami is the focal piece of the City of Sydney's "City Centre Public Art Plan," which will decorate the pedestrian-only zone through the centre of the city. The steel arch will tower over Town Hall at more than 50 metres above street level.
Without missing a beat, Sydneysiders took to social media to mock the unconventional art works, unveiled by Sydney Mayor Lord Clover Moore on Tuesday.
#sydneysculpture model? http://t.co/tFnA95azup pic.twitter.com/Nr0roXz3Sf— Ricardo Goncalves (@BUSINESSricardo) July 29, 2014
Introducing Sydney's new sculpture: The Tapeworm pic.twitter.com/7Z2Hb5esCL— Steph Coombes (@Steph_Coombes) July 29, 2014
Sydney might be getting the space noodle but Melbourne already has the apple peel roundabout. #sculpture pic.twitter.com/37dpyW9Dqn— Denham Sadler (@denhamsadler) July 29, 2014
suddenly have the "every sperm is sacred" song stuck in my head... #sculpture— Michael Koziol (@michaelkoziol) July 29, 2014
Nine million dollars please, Clover. pic.twitter.com/55NA90jHoq— Jo Thornely (@jothornely) July 29, 2014
And if the Cloud Arch wasn't enough fun for one day, Sydneysiders will also be given Pavilion by Sydney-based Egyptian-born artist Hany Armanious. The work is a space designed for a park in central Sydney in the shape of a milk crate and will stand 13.7 metres tall.
Let the second round of insults begin.
Mock-up of how the milk crate at Belmore Park near Central Station will look like, by @cityofsydney pic.twitter.com/15QZnlnAZG— Glenda Kwek (@curious_scribe) July 29, 2014
Sydney's new blue milk crate sculpture was originally way more controversial pic.twitter.com/53XRzy7Arj— Ron Erdos (@RonErdos) July 29, 2014
My response to @CloverMoore's Sculptures #sydneysculpture #Sydney #Auspol #nswpol #namethesculpture pic.twitter.com/lILfgAhE5U— Adrian Rook (@adrianmrook) July 29, 2014
The city of sydney is describing a giant milk crate as being akin to a gothic cathedral— purserj (@purserj) July 29, 2014
was so stoked about Sydney's giant milkcrate my moustache fell off (pretty sure Portlandia already did this one?) pic.twitter.com/quX9vdxKYJ— oi nah (@dee_bbgirl) July 29, 2014
My milk crate brings all the boys to the park...— Dominic Knight (@domknight) July 29, 2014
The artworks are two of three works chosen by the City of Sydney council in its revamp of the CBD space.