The excellent Peter Berthoud, London guide and blogger, is mounting a last-ditch campaign to save them - you can sign the petition here and 'like' the Facebook page here.The building was only put up in 1997. I have to confess that I'm not a big fan of Baldwin's work. It is a bit coarse and literal and poorly-composed for me. But that does not mean these sculptures should be broken up just because they are in the way.
Baldwin's only other work in London is the series of heads and an arch with more animals at Grand Buildings in Trafalgar Square. And who commissioned Barry to execute them? Land Securities!
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Personally, I've always found these sculptures really naff. Still, at least they are better than his human heads nearby, which are unspeakably poor.
Standards in public art seem to have taken a real nosedive in the last 20 years. Look at that hideous "Meeting place" statue outside (?)Kings Cross.
I don't expect that anyone else will agree with me, but there you go.
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