METALmorphosis

METALmorphosis is a large kinetic sculpture of a human head, by Czech artist David Černý. The sculpture is in the Whitehall Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it was inaugurated in 2007, and it sits in a large reflecting pool.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Olympic High School and Steele Creek Presbyterian Church.

Olympic High School

School building

Olympic High School is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a high school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools system. Olympic opened in the fall of 1966, in what was then the rural outskirts of Charlotte. Olympic High School is situated 3,000 feet northwest of METALmorphosis.

Steele Creek Presbyterian Church

Church

Photo: Bagatar, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Steele Creek Presbyterian Church is situated 2½ miles north of METALmorphosis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Steele Creek and Dixie.

Steele Creek

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Steele Creek is a neighborhood and major district in Charlotte. Steele Creek is located along Lake Wylie in the far southwest quadrant of Charlotte primarily bordered by Interstate 485 to the east and located south of the Charlotte Airport.

Dixie

Hamlet

Dixie is an unincorporated community in western Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. Centered at the intersection of Dixie River Road and Wallace Neel Road; the rural community has shrunk since the start of the 21st century with the expansion of Charlotte Douglas International Airport and the westward expansion of Charlotte. Dixie is situated 4 miles north of METALmorphosis.

Starmount

Suburb

Starmount is a predominantly residential neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. Located along South Boulevard, it is between Sharon Road West and Emerywood Drive, with the Little Sugar Creek its eastern border. Starmount is situated 4½ miles east of METALmorphosis.

METALmorphosis

Type: Fountain
Description: statue by David Cerný
Categories: sculpture, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.15081° or 35° 9′ 3″ north

Longitude

-80.94804° or 80° 56′ 53″ west

Open location code

867X5322+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4880354210

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=fountain

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tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q28455368

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Honorary Consulate of the Czech Republic and Topgolf.

Nearby Places

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “METALmorphosis”. Photo: southernfoodwaysalliance, CC BY 2.0.