Tottenham Court Rd: a funky tube station
Tottenham Court Road is certainly my favourite Tube station. Busy for sure, but hey, it also shelter 1000 square meters of crazy and colourful mosaics. I never get tired of fixing the geometric shapes, discover a new object each time… Butterflies, masks (many references to the British Museum), saxophons, a heron, a cow, a chicken, a satellite…
This work of art by the Scottish artist Paolozzi (the pioneer of pop art in England) however proves very tricky: how to renovate and modernise the station without destroying them? It took years of work in the early 1980ies and will take as much to take the tiles down…
Had never heard of the guy? You probably already know another of is sculptures though – the giant holding a compass at the entry of the British Library. Why not hunt his other treasures with this Londonist list?
8 Responses to “Tottenham Court Rd: a funky tube station ”
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Honte à moi : je me rends compte en lisant ton billet que jamais je ne m’étais arrêtée regarder tout ça, à force de courir dans les couloirs… merci pour cette invitation à voir la beauté même là où on ne l’attend pas !
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Chocoralie says:
Nath: oh, tu auras l’occasion d’y passer sous peu, c’est sur!
Elisa: Psychedelique, surtout… Bises!
Eva: Tant mieux! Et c’est d’autant plus agreable de les decouvrir en ayant un tout petit peu de background sur l’artiste. Enjoy!
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