If you’re in the mar­ket for a real bona fide “Holy shit, look at that!” expe­ri­ence, try head­ing down to the east­ern end of Abel Smith Street, oppo­site the South­ern Cross.

Tattoo Apartments exterior by Drypnz
A bet­ter qual­i­ty pos­si­bly day­time image is deserved to do it jus­tice

Where on the cor­ner of Wigan Street there was once a Tat­too Muse­um (or this), with an impos­ing moai on the street front (image), there is now the three-storey Tat­too Apart­ments build­ing. That’s not the “holy shit” moment, how­ev­er. The “holy shit” moment is relat­ed to the mas­sive (MASSIVE! three-sto­ries mas­sive!) art­work by reknowned local street-artist Drypnz that adorns the Abel Smith Street-fac­ing edge of the build­ing — two (sig­nif­i­cant­ly more than the moai) impos­ing fig­ures pre­sid­ing over the entrance­way like a pair of sen­tinels or pos­si­bly even LOTR’s Arg­onath.

This is the most coura­geous large-scale build­ing dec­o­ra­tion I’ve ever seen or heard of. Much respect to the build­ing own­er.