Bode will be supplying rotating equipment as part of one of the most exciting public art projects in the UK.
A sculpture named “Turning the Place Over” is part of Liverpool’s Biennial year in 2008 and has been designed by Richard Wilson. To see a moving visualisation of turning the place over click here - June 2007
Richard Wilson is one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors and this, his most ambitious intervention into architectural space to date, draws its inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction as well as architecture.
Bode will supply a set of 3/CR1000, a 50 tonne capacity rotator which will continually rotate an 8 metre ovoid cut from the façade of a building on a central axis in three planes.
The large fabricated ovoid will act as a huge 'window' offering recurrent glimpses of the interior as it turns - making the inside become the outside.
The building will be Cross Keys House (formerly Yates Wine Lodge), Moorfields, Liverpool.
The work will run throughout 2007/8 and attract worldwide attention as the visual jewel in the crown in the lead up to Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture in 2008.
The sculpture will transforms one of Liverpool city center’s major ‘grot spots’ into a cultural asset; dramatically emblematic of the transformation of the city as a whole.
Bode have teamed together with Lindhurst Engineering of Nottinghamshire who will supply the steel fabrication of the ovoid and Askham Construction of Lancaster who will complete all civil work. The three companies hope to see their efforts finalised in May 2007.
Mr. Ritchie Thornton, Director of F. Bode & Sons said, “It’s a great honor to be involved in such a prestigious project. We have been given a very exciting concept by Richard Wilson and hope to make it into a breath taking realisation”
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