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The Delancey Street subway station houses two large wall-sized pieces of artwork, one on each wall where the staircase exits and transfers are located. Both glass mosaics are the work of artist Ming Fay. The artwork on the downtown side is titled Shad Crossing and details two giant shad fish swimming, along with another wall mosaic of blue waters. In the late 19th century, shad were found along the Hudson River when new immigrants came to New York, many of whom settled on the Lower East Side. Ming Fay is a Shanghai-born and New York City-based sculptor and professor. His work focuses on the concept of the garden as a symbol of utopia and the relationship between man and nature. Drawing upon an extensive knowledge of plants both Eastern and Western, real and mythical, Fay creates his own calligraphic floating forest of reeds, branches and surreal species. Ming Fay was born in Shanghai in 1943 and raised in Hong Kong. His mother was an artist, and his father worked in the then-burgeoning Hong Kong movie industry as an art director. Both were students of Shanghai-based sculptor Zhang Chongren, who had studied Western sculpture in Europe. Ming came to the United States in 1961 to study at the Columbus College of Art and Design and later at the Kansas City Institute of Art. Subsequently, Fay earned a graduate degree in sculpture at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1975. He currently teaches sculpture at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey.

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Art lovers can find public art throughout Oakland. In the heart of the business district, a unique art project called the Doors of Oakland celebrates art on the commercial doorways of nine prominent businesses located along Forbes and Fifth Avenues, Atwood and McKee streets. This "fishy" mosaic created in 2006 by artist Alix Paul graces the door of a Chinese Restauramt on Semple Street just below Forbes Avenue.

Xiphactinus (from Latin and Greek for "sword-ray") is an extinct genus of large, 4.5 to 6 m (15 to 20 feet) long predatory marine bony fish that lived during the Late Cretaceous. When alive, the fish would have resembled a gargantuan, fanged tarpon (to which it was, however, not related). Xiphactinus were voracious predators. At least a dozen specimens of X. audax have been collected with the remains of large, undigested or partially digested prey in their stomachs.

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Once the tallest building in the British Empire, the Marine Building is a skyscraper located at 355 Burrard Street in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This building is still, for old-timers, the building most clearly identified with Vancouver. Its unique wedding cake "icing", topped by that vaguely Mayan tower, makes a dramatic and exciting backdrop as you look west down Hastings. It is one of the great art deco buildings in the world. According to the architects, McCarter & Nairne, the building was intended to evoke "some great crag rising from the sea, clinging with sea flora and fauna, tinted in sea-green, touched with gold." Construction started in the spring of 1929 with a ceremony in keeping with the style of the building. "Yesterday morning," said a March 14 newspaper report, "His Worship Mayor W.H. Malkin blew a blast on a golden whistle and with it set in motion the steam shovel that will excavate the site for the new Burrard Street Marine skyscraper." From that first breaking of the ground to the formal opening October 7, 1930 was 16 months. And, when the Marine Building opened – with 21 floors at a height of 97.8 metres (321 feet) – Vancouver had seen nothing like it. Liveried doormen stood beneath a huge arched entrance framed in glittering polished brass to usher guests into the lobby, where they would be met by five young women in sailor suits. These would then escort visitors the short distance to the lifts, which could climb 210m a minute, a staggering performance at a time when the average was 45m. The doormen have gone now but everything else is as it was. An Art Deco flock of Canada geese, the rays of the setting sun blazing over them, still fly past a mass of intricately carved marine life – lobsters, crabs, prawns and starfish crawling over each other through a waving forest of seaweed.