They created many functional sculptures, including tables and benches.

It is a functional sculpture that both symbolises and celebrates the renaissance of the two canals - and what may yet follow.

Right on top the rock the building of a huge functional sculpture of the Great Bird Jatayu is under way.

Once finished, Jatayu sculpture would be the biggest functional sculpture in the Asian continent.

The news of this biggest functional sculpture which is been constructed is slowlyspreading.

She brought her old Traulsen refrigerator along, which the architects displayed in the open kitchen like a piece of functional stainless-steel sculpture.

These "functional sculptures" are usually made of bronze - patinated or raw - such as the vases (from $2,666) recently on display.

"I envision a city of functional sculptures of many great designs, a place where people can go, like here, and get away from the world," he said.

His early fine-arts training has proved valuable as the artist strives to create "functional sculpture."

The functional sculpture is a drinking fountain made of stainless steel in the shape of a tulip tree leaf.