DETROIT, MI- Last week Detroit contemporary arts group Library Street Collective announced that Detroit's First National Building will soon have the world's tallest mural on its side.

New York-based artists How & Nosm, identical twin brothers, will paint the 26-story piece, which is commissioned by the skyscraper's owner Detroit businessman Dan Gilbert.

The mural will be 354-feet tall, and 81-feet wide, according to Library Street Collective and pay tribute to a mural that formerly graced the building.

See the photo gallery above to see just some of Detroit's colorful large-scale murals from across the city.

According to the Detroit Free Press the original First National Building "mural was created in the 1970s by Detroit native Alvin Loving Jr. and depicted geometric forms in a style popular in the day. The mural was removed in a building renovation in 1989."

In the fall of 2014 Atlanta-based artist Alex Brewer, known as Hense, painted a 100 x 100 foot mural on the side of the M@dison Building downtown, which was also a collaboration effort between Library Street Collective and Gilbert's Bedrock Real Estate Services. The mural is Hense's second largest.

A History of art

These large scale murals are not out of the ordinary or a new art to the city of Detroit. Fourty-three years ago Alex Pollock designed and Ed Lee painted Eastern Market's largest mural, at 6,500-square-foot. In the fall of 2013 the 1972 mural was restored to its colorful glory after decades of weather and elements faded the large mural.

Large-scale murals

One of Detroit's most iconic large murals was covered up for years by an advertisement but Robert Wyland's 1997 Whaling Wall "Whale Tower" can be seen again. The 108-foot mural graces the restored David Broderick Tower. Wyland created 100 'whaling walls' that spans five continents, 17 countries, and 79 cities around the globe, Detroit has the 76th.

Another well-recognized mural can be seen from I-75 north as it fills a 8750 square-foot, 5-story space on the artist-studio complex, the Russell Industrial Center. The lion was painted by artist Kobie Solomon in 2010.

Not to be forgotten is the colorful "Splash" mural that is 9-stories tall. The mural by Katie Craig was painted in 2009 on the side of a vacant building at East Grand Boulevard and Beaubien Street in Detroit's North End.

These are only a handful of the colorful street-art around the city. Which mural is your favorite? What murals did I miss?