After 13 years, there’s a light — finally — at the end of the tunnel with the opening of the long-awaited Elizabeth Line.
A preview of the large-scale art installation that Darren Almond has created for Bond Street on the Elizabeth Line. Bond Street will open in the autumn.The store is the only retailer to have provided sponsorship for the Crossrail Art Program and has been working with the City of London Corporation on the artwork.
It will be installed in the station’s western ticket hall on Davies Street, just a few feet away fromAlmond’s work is meant to be a conceptual piece inspired by Britain’s transport heritage and will be integrated into the spaces above and around the escalators. The Crossrail Art Foundation is a charity that was founded to create a display of large-scale art at many of the new Elizabeth Line stations. It worked with Selfridges, White Cube gallery and an advisory roundtable of art world representatives to select an artist for Bond Street.Yayoi Kusama and Conrad Shawcross at Liverpool Street; Chantal Joffe at Whitechapel, and Michal Rovner at Canary Wharf. Almond said he hopes his work “will address the space and passage of time and will activate, and hopefully stimulate, the inherent narratives implied by descent and ascent, by arrival and departure.” The Elizabeth Line opening dovetails with a surge of investment in the West End planned over the next five years. As reported, the area is set to benefit from 5 billion pounds in capital investment across 22 existing and new West End developments, while more than 220 million pounds is to be spent on open public spaces in Mayfair, Soho and the streets around Oxford and Piccadilly Circuses. The developments will focus on providing a more diversified and immersive experience, with some 76 percent of the West End developments set to be mixed-use.into a health and wellbeing destination, while the almost-completed Outernet London, atop Tottenham Court Road station, will offer a 2,000-person capacity music venue, a gallery, broadcasting and media facilities, a hotel, bars and restaurants. The overarching strategy is to prepare for better times ahead when international travel picks up again and local consumers are more in the mood to hit the streets and start spending time in physical spaces.
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