Source: Chris FoxArtist and University of Sydney Architecture Professor Chris Fox, in collaboration with a team of engineers and architects, created an art installation in Sydney, Australia, using 80-year-old escalators from an underground train station.

The wooden escalators making up the installation — called the Interloop — were originally installed in a Sydney rail station in 1931 but were eventually removed to make way for a modern steel replacement.

“The vast, twisting accordion-shaped sculpture reconfigures the Heritage escalators that once stood there in a stitched form. Suspended between two ends of the building, Interloop measures more than fifty meters in length, weighs over five tonnes, and weaves in 244 wooden treads and four combs from the original escalators. Whilst paying homage to the past, it also, simultaneously, looks forward to the future,” said Fox.

Called an "overlap of two intentions" where repurposing and historic preservation meet, the Interloop has been erected in Wynard Station, a heavily trafficked underground rail station in Sydney.

The Interloop took a total of eight months of planning, design and work to complete.