Most Loved (9 Photos vol. 9)

Nine reader favorites, from a forest house to a banana bench

A brick house becomes a forest, a watering can handles the rain, and a child lends a hand to a line of hares. This edition brings together nine reader favorites in street art, sculpture and land art.

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🐰 “Hares During a Flood” — Attributed to E. G. Kuznetsov in St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺

A child joins the rescue, wrapping their arms around the lowest hare as the others pull it onto a ledge. The sculpture group at the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg is attributed to E. G. Kuznetsov.

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🌍 “World in Progress” — By Saype in Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Two children kneel over a world of their own making: a sun, trees, a house and a ring of people holding hands. Saype made World in Progress with biodegradable paint on grass at Geneva’s Palais des Nations in 2020. The artist describes the children and their shared drawing as an image of building the future together, linking peace between nations with care for the environment.

💡 Nerd Fact: The Geneva work covered 6,000 square metres and marked the 75th anniversary of the UN Charter. Saype discusses it in an interview with Switzerland’s foreign ministry.

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🔗 Visit Saype’s website

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🌲 Forest House — By Smates in Kessel-Lo, Belgium 🇧🇪

Tree trunks pass behind real windows, a bird flies beside the roofline, and painted shadows make the walls seem to open inward. In his original post from October 15, 2020, Smates identifies this 3D illusion in Kessel-Lo as a private commission. The before-and-after view shows how the bare brick building became a painted forest.

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💧 Watering Can Downspout — By HBB Landscape Architecture in Anacortes, Washington, USA 🇺🇸

Rainwater runs down the pipe, through an oversized yellow watering can and into the planting below. HBB Landscape Architecture designed the downspouts to direct runoff from warehouse roofs into rain gardens at the Port of Anacortes. They form part of the O and Railroad Avenue shoreline improvements, alongside beach access and a viewpoint made from a former concrete slag pile.

💡 Nerd Fact: The watering cans belong to a shoreline restoration project completed in 2010. The Port of Anacortes lists them alongside rain gardens and permeable parking as features that manage stormwater.

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🔗 Visit HBB Landscape Architecture’s website

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🐾 Pelle Svanslös and Maja Gräddnos — By Charlie Granberg in Uppsala, Sweden 🇸🇪

One cat peers down from the upper wall while the other reaches up around the corner below. Charlie Granberg painted Pelle Svanslös and Maja Gräddnos at Påvel Snickares Gränd in Uppsala, using the building’s different levels to bring the pair together.

💡 Nerd Fact: Uppsala’s tourism office describes the mural as 15 metres tall and introduces the cats in English as Peter-No-Tail and Molly Cream-Nose. Sveriges Radio documented Granberg at work on the mural on April 27, 2021.

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🔗 Follow Charlie Granberg on Instagram

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🍌 “Banc-Nana” — By DIX au carré in Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦

Three sections of banana peel curl outward into seats, and the fruit becomes a shared backrest. Designed by DIX au carré, Banc-Nana was a temporary installation at Place Gérald-Godin beside Montréal’s Mont-Royal metro station for summer 2015. The designers provided three ways to use the giant peel: leaning, sitting and reclining, with two smaller banana benches nearby.

💡 Nerd Fact: Banc-Nana continued a series of summer installations at Place Gérald-Godin. The June 2015 announcement identifies its predecessors as Ex-pause and oversized Adirondack chairs; the banana was also intended to serve as a meeting point beside the metro station.

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🔗 Visit the Banc-Nana project page

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🌸 “À travers les pétales” — By Koga One in Pontarlier, France 🇫🇷

A face repeats and breaks apart among pink and white flowers, with turquoise shapes cutting through the portrait. Koga One painted À travers les pétales at 2 rue des Déportés for Pontarlier’s 2026 Festival Couleur Urbaine.

💡 Nerd Fact: The city explains that Koga One used an AI-generated face as a reference, then painted the composition, colours and textures by hand with brushes and acrylic paint.

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🪨 “Obnatus Luna” — By Jon Foreman at Sandy Haven, Wales, UK 🇬🇧

Red beach stones form a rising ring around an empty patch of sand, with Jon Foreman crouching beside them. He created Obnatus Luna at Sandy Haven in Pembrokeshire in 2020. Small stones at the front grow into a wall of upright rocks at the back.

💡 Nerd Fact: Foreman treats a work’s disappearance as part of making it. In his account of the practice, he describes wind, tides and occasional human interference undoing the arrangements, many of which he builds along the Pembrokeshire coast where he grew up.

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🧢 “Origin” — By Mr.Oreo in Düsseldorf, Germany 🇩🇪

Blue caps, patterned face coverings and flowers surround two faces, while a broad orange stroke sweeps across the lower wall. Mr.Oreo painted Origin at 0211studio, at Merowingerstraße 55 in Düsseldorf-Bilk, during Düsseldorfer Nacht der Künste. He describes the title as the start of something new growing out of what came before.

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