Elizabeth line: Liverpool Street station gets polka dot artwork

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Called Infinite Accumulation, the 100m-long artwork has been created by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

A huge artwork made up of silver polka dots has been unveiled outside Britain's busiest railway station.

Infinite Accumulation is Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s first permanent public artwork in the UK and her largest permanent public sculpture. Funded by British Land and the City of London Corporation, it is the final artwork commissioned and installed by the Crossrail Art Programme for the Elizabeth line.

Transport for London called it a "monumental addition", while Justine Simons, deputy mayor for culture and the creative industries, said "commuters and visitors are in for a real treat".Liverpool Street station overtook London Waterloo"The spheres symbolise unique personalities while the supporting curvilinear lines allow us to imagine an underpinning social structure.”

TfL said the 100m long, 10m high and 12m wide "highly reflective architectural form... responds to both individual and collective experience within the changing spaces of the urban landscape of London".Accordion shop used by rock and pop bands to close

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