London's upside-down house is being demolished to make way for big business

It was impractical but great

Wednesday 06 May 2015 10:54 EDT

(Alex Chinneck)

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If you've ever driven down Blackfriars Road in Southwark you might have thought 'Huh, that building is messed up'.

Indeed it is, the work of artist Alex Chinneck who in 2013 installed the upside-down house in a work called Miner on the Moon.

It was wilfully silly, and, to me anyway, poked fun at the housing crisis we're experiencing in the city.

Sadly however, it is now going to be demolished after the complex of buildings it sits among was bought up by a Malaysian joint venture called Black Pearl in a £114 million deal.

Local residents and businesses have been informed that it will be bulldozed in June.

Chinneck's work do tend to be fairly transient though, as was the case with his melting wax house and levitating building in Covent Garden (both of which are pictured below, along with a curved house he created).

@christophhooton