Pipes, Pillars and Windows Become Part of Street Art From Poland to Botswana (20 Photos)

Twenty works where a pipe, a crack or a window became part of the art

Pipes turn into legs, a crack becomes a desert route for a camel caravan, a real window sits inside a snail’s shell, and a terrier lifts its leg on a utility box. Every piece here works with something that was already in place.

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🪣 “The Legend of Giants” — By Natalia Rak in Białystok, Poland 🇵🇱

The girl tips her watering can toward a real tree that grows in front of the wall, so the painting seems to do the gardening. Natalia Rak painted the four-story mural in Białystok in 2013.

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsLegend of GiantsNatalia Rak · 2013 · Białystok, PolandFolk on the Street 2013Al. Piłsudskiego 11/41According to PAP, the justification for Białystok’s 2016 plan change called the real tree in front an integral element of the composition.PAP via dzieje.pl, 20162Polish Radio Białystok reports that the faded mural has a preliminary restoration date in the second half of 2027.Polskie Radio Białystok201327 SepNew mural · Colossal201628 SepProtected in city plan · PAP20178 MayPhone photo · Spider’s Web20193 SepOn the new mural trails · PAP202421 MayListed in mural guide · Triverna20265 OctRestoration report · Radio Białystok20267 OctKurier Poranny photo · T. MaletaRead the full file →

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👓 Giant Glasses in the Snow — By Pavel Puhov

Two black frames painted on the snow use a real lamppost as the arm, so everyone crossing the yard walks through a giant pair of glasses. The Moscow Times lists “a lamppost turned into an enormous pair of glasses” among the works of Pavel Puhov, known as Pasha 183, who died in 2013 at 29.

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🐪 Camel Caravan on a Crack — By OakOak

Six small black camels, some with riders, walk in single file along a crack in a low concrete wall, and the crack becomes their dune. OakOak, who lives and works in St. Etienne, France, builds much of his work on flaws like this.

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👟 Pipes in Sneakers — Philippines 🇵🇭

Two elbow pipes at the foot of a wall get chalk socks and sneakers, laces trailing across the pavement. It came from a chalk street art project by college students in the Philippines.

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🌳 Spike Lee With a Tree for Hair — By Nuxuno Xän in Fort-de-France, Martinique 🇲🇶

A real bush grows over the top of the wall and becomes the hair, and the painted man lifts a comb to it. Nuxuno Xän painted this portrait of Spike Lee in Fort-de-France in 2013.

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🐕 Dog and Heart — Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪

Two patches of missing plaster become a dog and a small long-legged figure nose to nose, and a few black lines add the legs, the tail and a heart. Anne Frenzel photographed it in Leipzig.

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🤗 Hugging Utility Boxes — By Adam Łokuciejewski and Szymon Czarnowski in Olsztyn, Poland 🇵🇱

A few black lines give two gray utility boxes eyes, a wide smile and one long arm, so the big box pulls the small one close. It took about 20 lines of black spray paint, according to Colossal.

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🟡 Simpsons Bollards — By Le CyKlop in Paris, France 🇫🇷

The first bollards along the curb wear Simpsons outfits, yellow heads with one big eye on top, and more characters line up behind them. The single eye is Le CyKlop’s trademark.

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🗼 Leaning Tower of Pisa Pole — Philadelphia, USA 🇺🇸

A parking pole that already leaned in its concrete got the arches of the Leaning Tower of Pisa in black and white. It stands at 5th and Gaskill Streets, just off South Street, and Streets Dept calls it “a meme before there were memes.”

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsLeaning Tower of Pisa PoleArtist unknown · By 2012 · Philadelphia, USAS 5th St & Gaskill StPainted parking postSociety Hill1Streets Dept found that no artist came forward to claim the painted pole.Streets Dept, 20252Laughing Squid found it next to the Aurora Grace chocolate shop in October 2023.Laughing Squid20126 MayBlog locates it · Old Wolf201325 JanPhoto · Streets Dept202317 OctPhotos · Laughing Squid20252 JanHistory retold · Streets Dept202514 JanSouth Philly Review storyRead the full file →

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✋ “Holding Hand” — By Dome in Karlsruhe, Germany 🇩🇪

The bridge pillar is painted black as an arm, and the white-outlined fingers spread across the underside of the deck as if holding it up. Dome, real name Christian Krämer, comes from Karlsruhe and started with spray cans in 1994.

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✏️ “Color Pencils” — By Jonna Pohjalainen in Sabile, Latvia 🇱🇻

Fallen aspen logs, sharpened at one end and painted at the tip, lie in the grass like a spilled box of colored pencils. Jonna Pohjalainen carved them at an environmental art workshop at the Pedvale Open Air Museum in 2006; the Artists’ Association of Finland register lists the work as Color pencils.

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🪗 Accordion Boy

A real metal vent becomes the accordion: a child is painted around it with only a head, two hands and a pair of legs, and the grille’s slats stand in for the bellows.

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🐌 Snail With a Real Window — By Dan Leo in Waterford, Ireland 🇮🇪

A real window sits in the middle of the snail’s shell, so the house seems to live inside it. Dan Leo built the shell from sharp orange, red and turquoise facets for Waterford Walls in Farran Park; he posted photos of the finished gable.

💡 Nerd Fact: Dan Leo says his interest in art grew from 90s cartoons, pop culture and bold graphic design, paired with Irish wildlife.

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🐕 Terrier on a Utility Box — By Djoels in Pittem, Belgium 🇧🇪

Djoels picked the obvious spot for a dog: a utility box. The terrier faces you with an innocent look while its hind leg is up and the stream runs off the edge of the box. A real tuft of grass grows from the paving at its feet, at Tieltstraat 35 in Pittem.

💡 Nerd Fact: This is not Djoels’ first animal in Pittem: her “Purrfect” cat, painted in May 2025 for a local cattery, won Street Art Cities’ Best of May award.

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☕ “Napar inspiracji” — By Kreda in Gryfino, Poland 🇵🇱

A slatted shutter on the wall becomes the mug in the figure’s hand, and the building’s windows end up in the yellow hair and in the curling steam. Kreda shows the finished wall in his own video; it is on Gryfiński Dom Kultury at Szczecińska 5.

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🦌 An Elder and Two Antelope — By Mendoza Creates in Maun, Botswana 🇧🇼

The portrait and the landscape share one round pillar: an older man in a beaded headband and a shell necklace looks out from the front, and as the column curves away the scene turns into two antelope at a waterhole under acacia trees, one bending to drink. It was made in Maun with Mural Supply Co Botswana and the Okavango Art Exchange.

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🦅 “La Femme et le Griffon” — By Ael Creations in Saint-Brieuc, France 🇫🇷

The two figures sit on the two walls of a courtyard corner, with the green griffin’s claw and branching orange flashes of light stretching toward the woman around the bend. It was painted for Just Paint Saint-Brieuc 2026.

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🤝 “Reach” — By Sophi Odling in Bristol, UK 🇬🇧

The children follow the shape of the building. Their linked hands climb from the low front, past the real windows and the door, up to the taller block behind. Sophi Odling painted it on North Street in Bedminster for Upfest 2026.

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🐙 Creatures in the Stairwell — By Lobster Robin and A Squid Called Sebastian in Ghent, Belgium 🇧🇪

Tentacled blue and green creatures fill the stairwell wall from floor to ceiling. Down by the steps, one blue hand curls around the real red fire extinguisher, and the electrical box and the doorway sit right inside the scene.

💡 Nerd Fact: The City of Ghent describes A Squid Called Sebastian’s work as influenced by comic strips and figurative art.

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🏊 “But I’m in the pool” — By Instaguss in London, UK 🇬🇧

The building’s roller door becomes the deep end: the blue water runs straight across it, and the pool tiles climb up around the windows, while a man drifts on a pink inflatable and two kids splash nearby. Gus painted it in London with Blank Walls.

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