The 25-foot (7.6 meter) tall sculpture of a shark crashing through the roof of Magnus Hanson-Heine’s house in rural Oxford, England, is now a protected landmark — and he’s not happy about it.
FILE - A fibreglass sculpture known as the Headington Shark and originally called"Untitled 1986", by British sculptor John Buckley stands appearing to crash through the roof of a house in the Headington area of Oxford, England, on April 30, 2019. The 25-foot tall sculpture of a shark crashing through the roof of Magnus Henson-Heines house in Oxford, England, is now a protected landmark and hes not happy about it.
“Using the planning apparatus to preserve a historical symbol of planning law defiance is absurd on the face of it,” Hanson-Heine, a quantum chemist, said in an interview with The Associated Press.Bill Heine, an American expat who studied law at the University of Oxford, got the idea for the sculpture after he heard U.S. warplanes fly over his house one night in April 1986.
The shark’s anti-war message is just as important today as Russian bombs fall on Ukraine, Henson-Heine said.
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