On July 2, local time, the architectural design firm StudioKCA from Brooklyn, New York, built a 38-foot (about 11.6-meter) tall giant whale 'Skyscraper' with 5 tons of plastic waste that was salvaged from the ocean. It was placed in the canal of Bruges, Belgium, as part of Bruges Triennial, the Bruges Art and Architecture Triennial. It is estimated that there are 150 million tons of rubbish in the current ocean, and the whale sculpture is meant to alert people. This state of the marine environment.