The Peninsula Hong Kong: Swaying bus art installation

It may be the oldest hotel in Hong Kong, but The Peninsula doesn't miss a contemporary beat.

For the next month, the The Peninsula Hong Kong will be home to hotel chain's first ever public art installation – a full-sized replica of a vintage twin-axel Harrington Legionnaire coach teetering over the hotel's grand entrance.

From the streets, visitors can see the six-tonne kinetic sculpture; the creative work of renowned British artist and sculptor Richard Wilson. The coach is programmed to rock up to 12 degrees at random intervals giving the impression that it could plunge from the hotel's facade to the ground at any moment.

Visitors can also admire Wilson's Hang On A Minute Lads… I've Got A Great Idea from The Peninsula's seventh-floor Sun Terrace.

The artwork, inspired by the 1969 British heist movie The Italian Job, was originally created for the De La Warr Pavilion (a Grade I-listed modernist building located on the seafront in England's Bexhill-On-Sea). It was re-commissioned by The Peninsula Hong Kong as part of a collaboration with the UK's Royal Academy of Arts.

The installation will be on display from 12 March to 8 April 2015.

The Peninsula Hong Kong is located in Tsim Sha Tsui, an urban area in southern Kowloon and is the flagship property of The Peninsula Hotels group.

The hotel opened in 1928, and underwent an expansion in 1994 and a refurbishment in 2012. Well-known for its reinvention of modern luxury in big cities around the world, the hotel retains a colonial element often described as Oriental chic.

*Courtesy of the Artist and Michelle D'Souza Fine Art. Originally commissioned by the De La Warr Pavilion, UK, generously supported by Eddie Izzard, the Arts Council England Grants for the Arts via the National Lottery and the Henry Moore Foundation, as part of the London 2012 Festival.