Jason Klimoski and Lesley Chang, designers of the Brooklyn-based architectural design company STUDIOKCA, designed Skyscraper, a whale sculpture about 11.58 meters high, and used more than 5 tons of plastic waste picked up from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, hoping to make Everyone pays more attention to the issue of marine pollution.
In terms of volume, Skyscraper contains a total of nearly 4,000 square feet of plastic waste and weighs 5 tons. The numbers sound staggering, but they are compared to the 150 million tons of plastic still floating in the ocean. Garbage is nothing compared to it.
In order to clean up marine debris, STUDIOKCA also cooperated with the Hawaii Wildlife Fund to coordinate several beach clean-up activities, which became the source of the designer’s creative materials.
Klimoski said in a video recorded for the event that there are still 150 million tons of plastic waste in our oceans, more than there are whales in the sea, so use this opportunity to make everyone aware of the plastic waste in the sea. The type and amount of plastic waste are very important.
