Broke & Bougie
Meet the Giant Sparrows
Two five-metre house sparrows stand in Olympic Village square, free to visit, and exactly as uncanny as that sounds.
Olympic Village Square, Southeast False Creek
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Two five-metre house sparrows stand in Olympic Village square, free to visit, and exactly as uncanny as that sounds.
Olympic Village Square, Southeast False Creek
More infoTwo enormous house sparrows, five metres tall each, stand in the middle of Olympic Village square, and everyone in Vancouver has simply decided this is fine. Myfanwy MacLeod's piece is a sly nod to Hitchcock and to small introduced species quietly taking over. Use them as your meeting point, grab a plaza coffee, then hit the False Creek seawall. The debate is whether they're cute or menacing. Both, always both.
Use the two five-metre house sparrows as your meeting point, you can't miss them, and standing under them feeling appropriately tiny is half the fun. Snap the obligatory photo, debate whether they're cute or menacing (correct answer: both), grab a coffee from the plaza, then drift onto the False Creek seawall, water on one side and city on the other. It costs nothing and takes about 45 minutes, the ideal launchpad, letting the seawall pull you toward Science World or back to Yaletown.
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