rk has been suspended on the installation until the hearing, leaving the fifth shark stranded on dry land.
"The work on the installation of the sharks was ongoing last night when a court injunction requested by Hackney Council was issued, which is disputing the change of use on the site," Architecture Foundation director Ellis Woodman told Dezeen.
The injunction alleges that the installation amounts to a "material change of use" of the canal and accuses the organisers of "the display of art installations without the benefit of planning permission". […]
Gray believes the council acted after reading an article about the project by Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainwright.
"It was provoked by some daft article in The Guardian by a guy who presented himself as interested in writing a serious story and then actually wrote a load of childish nonsense that was man-eaters released into the canal," said Gray.
"What a f*cking asshole."
Well yes: he writes for the Guardian. Here's the offending piece, where the sharks are presented as an anti-establishment gesture inspired by the famous Headington shark.
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