Alex Chinneck

Alex Chinneck's latest work sees the architectural artist reveal what he calls his most complex and ambitious sculpture to date: a spiral staircase that has a surreal twist and appears to be bursting apart as it climbs the side of a building.

Alex Chinneck's surreal artistic works offer a fascinating twist on everyday architecture. His latest project involves him apparently unzipping an aged building's facade during Milan Design Week.

Whether levitating a building or making a house melt, Alex Chinneck is adept at transforming everyday architecture into works of art. His latest architectural sculpture is entitled Open to the public and creates the illusion of a dilapidated 1960s-era office building being zipped open.

British artist Alex Chinneck has been distorting and twisting the physical world into surreal and mind-bending permutations for nearly a decade now. His latest work returns to the more humble world of indoor sculpture after five years of extraordinary large-scale work.

Alex Chinneck has built a career blending art and architecture to create works like Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder and A pound of flesh for 50p. His latest project is similarly surreal and gives the impression that some kind of disaster has torn apart a London building.

Alex Chinneck has unveiled his latest work, dubbed Pick yourself up and pull yourself together. The project sees the British artist, best known for creating strange architectural works, seemingly rip up a piece of road and suspend a new Vauxhall Corsa in the air.

Following his Covent Garden-based levitating market building, Alex Chinneck has returned with a new project: a full-size two-story home built mostly from wax, that will melt over 30 days.

British artist Alex Chinneck has melded art and architecture to create a building in Covent Garden, London that appears to levitate. Take my lightning but don’t steal my thunder is on display to the public until October 24.

I'm not sure which is the most eye-catching feature of this bizarre refurbishing of a four-story house: the curving brick facade that seems to have slipped down onto the ground, or the gaping cavity exposing the innards of the top floor as the notional result of said slide.