Turning the Place Over

Stepping out of Moorfields station onto the street, you’ll immediately notice this art installation doing its thang in the old Yates Wine Lodge across the road. If you’re anything like me, the perplexing mechanics of it all will have you recoiling in ungodly fear at the architectural devilry.
Created for Liverpool’s 2007 biennial by sculptor Richard Wilson (no, not that one), Turning the Place Over is essentially a disc cut from a building’s frontage (windows and all) that rotates on a motor, allowing you to see the gutted insides of the derelict building. You pervert.
It really is extraordinary to watch. I love the moment when the revolution is complete and there’s that infinitesimal point in time when everything synchs back up again. This doesn’t last long though before the insanity repeats itself.

So that’s what its called! Great description too, speshalkay in my family, we call it the inside out building!
You can see it best from the raised walkway at the eastern exit from Moorfields Railway Station. When I was there, there were several coaches pulled up to see the show. It really is fantastic, and a little uncanny — you expect such a thing to be done with CGI on a tv show, but there it is in broad daylight, happening right before your eyes. I reckon its worth a trip.

An amazing sculpture by Richard Wilson (not the I do not belieeeeeeve it! one) where an 8m oval has been cut in the side of an old block of flats and then attached to a rotating spindle which constantly moved the wall through 3 dimensions. I stood wit hmy jaw hanging open for quite a while! Worth every moment. Go take a look if you are in the area!