Celebrated Street Artist El Seed Turns Riyadh’s Old Water Tower Into A Fabulous Piece Of Art
Until the Faisaliyah tower was constructed in the year 2000, Riyadh’s Water Tower used to be the tallest building in the city. It has the iconic status attached to it.
It recently got a makeover by celebrated French-Tunisian street artist El Seed.
As always El Seed brought together elements of Arabic calligraphy and graffiti to create what he calls “calligraffiti”
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Just look at how beautiful it looks up close
Many Saudi artists worked with El Seed on the project
The mammoth project took months to complete
The Riyadh Water Tower, Saudi Arabia (constructed in 1971) just had a makeover by the talented artist @elseed.. ???#SaudiArabia pic.twitter.com/qUYgZp2Mvq
— Salam (@Salam4CC) April 25, 2019
This isn’t his first project in Saudi though; El Seed earlier gave Jeddah this
“Poetic Ballad” by eL Seed in Jeddah’s old town #JeddahArtWeek #JAW #JAW2014 pic.twitter.com/iMDaEb87cH
— FIND (@FIND_UAE) February 4, 2014
