Turning The Place Over

By Queuebot in Architecture, Art, Video Clips on Mar 2, 2009 at 2:47 am

[YouTube - Link]

In 2007, British artist Richard Wilson created one of the most amazing public art ever, using a building in the Liverpool city center:

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. [...]

Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the facade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours.

Find out more about Turning the Place Over here: Link

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by solartrash.

Tags: Liverpool, Richard Wilson

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ziggystardust
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 am
Kinda cool, but why?
angstrom
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 am
I think that video shows too much of the pieces ‘workings’, in fact it’s better to see it with a bit more wonder left in.
Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qh2esOoI1Y
Alex
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 2:47 am
Seems familiar, but I couldn’t find it on Neato before – plus this was from 2007, and it’s worth a repost, I think.
Alison_G
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 3:29 am
I saw this in person last August. It’s fascinating to watch. I stood for about fifteen minutes, wondering how everything was cut with such precision and how it stays together. It’s in a weird part of town, though. If I recall correctly it’s sort of on a side street off a main road but there really isn’t much in that part of town that would attract sightseers – other than this piece, of course. I think it was commissioned for the 2008 Capital of Culture. If you’re in the north of England it’s worth visiting Liverpool to see this and the Tate!
yosh hash
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 am
mildly interesting, but what a massive waste of resources. Hopefully the recession will put a quick stop to this kind of nonsense.
silverbullitt
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
id freaking love to watch that whilst ahem .. tripping balls
Dave
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
“The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK”? Wow; guess that’s not saying much.

yawn.
Mr. Binky
Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
You’re a waste of resources.
LisaL
Mar 3rd, 2009 at 2:27 am
Wow, that was interesting for a whole 5 seconds. I agree… what a waste.
MachinesAreHumanToo
Mar 4th, 2009 at 8:58 am
RE:
yosh hash
LisaL

By doing something different, a person begins do something better. Resources aren’t wasted here; they are being tested. It is a public experiment and good one at that.

But I see where you two are coming from. Being cynical suits lazy people; it requires less resources and energy.
ted
Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Didn’t exactly turn the building inside out.

Cute idea, but stupid. I wouldn’t exactly call it the most amazing public art piece ever.
Timmy
Sep 24th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
What is the use? What have we learned about the world? About man-kind? Who has this helped? Am I now more creative? More understanding? Will this save lives? Create food or energy? Of course not. Was this a valuable use of resources? No way. This is a novel piece of rudimentary engineering of one man’s attempt to convey his worthless concepts. FAIL.

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