Richard Wilson turns the place over

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The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out. It runs in daylight hours, triggered by a light sensor. The piece consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions, resting on a giant rotator usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, it cts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours. Amazing!


Richard Wilson

(Via Today and Tomorrow)

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  • juice

    the real question is . . . how do you get payed to do this? I have a great idea for a giant toe popping in and out of a tenth story window.

  • tomm

    but nothing from inside gets even a little close to actually moving outside?

    so he’s basically just cut a big hole in a building?

    brilliant.

  • http://www.mattmanos.com MATTHEW

    wow, quite a sight! its interesting how the people walking by in the video don’t even stop to look, and rarely even turn their head…