Owner of UK ‘Shark House’ gripes at landmark protection

Magnus Hanson-Heine referred to as metropolis council's transfer to make the home right into a landmark "absurd."
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A British man stated native legislators are shark-raving mad for landmarking his father’s notorious residence.

Designed as a protest in opposition to nuclear weapons, the 25-foot sculpture depicts a shark diving into the roof of an Oxford residence. It was put in in 1986 by Invoice Hanson-Heine, in opposition to the desires of the Oxford Metropolis Council.

Nonetheless, the council has apparently grown fairly keen on the controversial “Shark Home.” This week, metropolis planners voted so as to add the house to the Oxford Heritage Asset Register.

Hanson-Heine died in 2019, and his son, Magnus, now owns the house.

“Utilizing the planning equipment to protect a historic image of planning regulation defiance is absurd on the face of it,” stated Magnus Hanson-Heine, a quantum chemist.

Invoice Hanson-Heine, an American who studied regulation at Oxford, commissioned the sculpture after he noticed US planes fly over his home to bomb Libya in 1986.

The Oxford Metropolis Council initially protested Invoice Hanson-Heine’s shark sculpture in 1986.

Geoffrey Swaine/Avalon through ZUMA Press

Magnus Hanson-Heine’s father, Invoice, constructed the funky shark sculpture in 1986, over 4 many years after the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki.

Geoffrey Swaine/Avalon through ZUMA Press

Invoice Hanson-Heine’s unusual sculpture depicts a shark crash face-first into the roof of the home.

Geoffrey Swaine/Avalon through ZUMA Press

They put in it on Aug. 9, 1986, 41 years to the day after america nuked Nagasaki.

With Put up wires