It weighs 10 tonnes, it's by an internationally renowned sculptor, and by Saturday it could be demolished and put in a skip.

The four-metre-tall sculpture Strata was installed 15 years ago, when a plaza on Little Collins Street was refurbished.

Strata, the 2001 work by New Zealand artist Chris Booth, that is soon to be removed. Credit:Eddie Jim

With a fresh redevelopment of the square set to begin, the artwork by renowned New Zealand sculptor Chris Booth will go. Where it ends up is the question.

Mr Booth is furious. "I've got stone works all over the world going back to 1988 and none of them have ever been relocated before," he said.