5/17/2010

Stone Monkey Urban Climbing Old Skool

If you roam around cities with your eyes open, a whole new world of beautiful, most illusive and most of all small archtectural wonders reveal themselves.

Above picture shows climbing monkeys from the interior of the National History museum in London, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Ofcourse this is an (old skool) interst from my love of climbing but interesting in it's own way as well.
Seemingly fond of ornaments displaying flora and fauna (both living and extinct) he used all sorts of mamals and plants for decoration of his buildings (see pics under).

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