Though looking like it could be a Touch Up London entry, "Square The Block", a recently completed artwork hanging off the side of LSE's New Academic Building on Kingsway, is the real deal.
The work of Richard Wilson, a sculptor with a track record in buggering around with the harmonious exteriors of buildings — he was last seen pivoting a circular section of a condemned building during the Liverpool Biennale — Square the Block looks like the result of a highly localised earthquake that has crushed a portion of the smooth facade into rubble.
Wilson says he finds "something beautiful" in destruction, and walking around and below the piece, the abstract beauty, in this otherwise buttoned-up street, is apparent, alongside a sense of unease; passers-by, on noticing it, tend to avoid walking underneath, as if uncertain whether the crushing motion which rendered this mess has quite finished.
Read more about the project on the LSE website.
