ay you've got 145 old sea containers and 8,000 knackered
8th December 1994, Page 25
8th December 1994
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Page 25, 8th December 1994
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tyres and you don't know how to get rid of them. What do you do? Start a bonfire? Take them to the council tip? Dump them in the yard of a nearby haulier and claim they're his?
No, silly you plant the lot in Leith docks in Edinburgh, stack it 100ft high and claim its a work of art. In fact, you could name it something like 'ample of Tyre". This is indeed what Scottish artist David Mach has done with this majestic pile. He borrowed the tyres from Kwikfit and the containers from John Russell. Mach's creation is part of Edinburgh's bid to become European City of Architecture, 1999.
Just don't let Prince Charles see it I don't want to hear another word about carbuncles, monstrous or otherwise.