'Hang On A Minute Lads... I've Got A Great Idea,' Richard Wison. Image courtesy the Royal Academy, via
Look up outside this Hong Kong hotel and you'll see what looks like the startling sight of a full-sized bus, balanced precariously on the building's edge. What you're actually seeing is Richard Wilson's latest sculpture, a reprise of Hang On A Minute Lads… I've Got A Great Idea, an homage to the cliffhanger ending of 1969 heist film The Italian Job.Wilson worked with the UK's Royal Academy of Arts and Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel to place the 40'-long, 6-tonne sculpture on its perch, where it sporadically rocks to and fro as it did at its original station atop the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, England.“Here in the most vertical city in the world it’s about placing an iconic moment and an iconic event on an iconic building,” Wilson says in a short video produced by the Peninsula Hotel. "It changes people's relationship to the building. It certainly makes it memorable."Check out more of Richard Wilson's work on his website.Related:A Crash Course In The Beauty Of Collisions: Sculptures From Eyal Gever8 Mass Transportation Ideas That Make The Hyperloop Look BoringBehind the Build of Burning Man's Largest Art Car in a Boeing 747A Car (and Its Parking Space) Are Hanging Upside Down in London
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