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.