Luke M.
Yelp
So, apparently Midas came to Birmingham and got a little pokey with that magic finger of his if this statue is anything to go by. I'm not an expert in architecture or art in general, so I can only offer my opinion - but it wouldn't be Yelp if I couldn't do that, so here it is: eyesore much?!
Positioned outside the old Register Office, across the way from the ICC and new library, the Boulton, Watt and Murdoch statue is hard to miss and looks totally out of place in front of the plain, pedestrian building it now stands in front of.
The plaque the bronze boys stand on honours the lives of these 18th century industrial pioneers - but really, why did it have to be this colour?! No matter how many times I walk past it, I feel violated in the eye area. If I ever make enough of a significant contribution to this world (with my awesome Yelp reviews, for example) please don't let me be immortalised in gaudy, Rocky-hotpants gold.