Bicycle Tag of bike

Very well put, Hoelfa, I couldn't agree more. Many of the tag subjects fall into this 'incongruous category and evidently engender protective interest, at the very least from people on this forum.

The upturned hulls serve as semi-enclosed seats which provide a link with the history of the site and offer a partially sheltered location from which to take in a good view.

they are just so lovely and incongruous, unexpected to find something crafted in that way and vulnerable compared with the hard concrete street furniture and surfaces that are more typical and surround it.

i think there is this idea that when you put something like that out in the public realm, people actually take care of it more, because it can be damaged (whether a delicate timber screen or a nice flowerbed) and it changes the way people respond to their city. of course it only takes someone wilfully destructive to ruin it for everyone, but sometimes it's nice to make the city for the benefit of most people, not make it indestructible by a minority.