I’ll keep this one brief and let the photos speak for themselves. There is a town in New Zealand that is full of corrugated iron art. I had the pleasure of visiting a few years ago and took these photos. The dog above is the town’s Information Center.
Tirau, the Corrugated Iron Capital of New Zealand
Submitted by Rusty
February 17th, 2011
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Allee Willis
I can’t even breathe I’m so speechless. How have I never heard of this place?!
How many buildings are like this? I would have tried to buy one and moved there! I want the dog for my recording studio.
Is the first photo a giant sculpture?
Plotzing from this place.
Rusty Blazenhoff
Imagine my surprise when we rolled into town…! New Zealand is full of a lot of great things and corrugated iron art is just the beginning. I’ll post more of my NZ kitschy finds moving forward.
I don’t know how many buildings there are in the town but the artist does work outside of that town:
http://www.corrugatedcreations.co.nz/
A list of all his work is here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p3CEgWkB6u75dtdUbOxFJDw&output=html&gid=0&single=true
The “good shepherd” is a sculpture, yes. There are a lot of sheep in NZ, hence the need for a giant shepherd.
There is also a cool clock store in this town and it’s FULL of cuckoo clocks. Though no pink ones…
denny
The dog is incredible.