Sometimes I walk past something in London that I have never seen before, even though I have walked past it dozens of times. Last weekend, I was in Holborn (near where I used to work and get the bus to Waterloo) when I saw a sculpture on the side of one of the buildings on Kingsway. The sculpture is called "Square the Block" and is by Richard Wilson. I thought that the sculpture was new as I'd never seen it before (admittedly I normally walk on the same side of the street), but I discovered that it has been there since February of 2010.
The sculpture blends into the architecture of the LSE's (London School of Economics) academic building at the corner of Kingsway and Sardinia Street. It seems as though the building is in a state of transition from the stone it is constructed from and pushed around.
This is a permanent sculpture, so it can still be seen. Have you ever wandered past a place that you have dozens of times before and only just noticed something new about it?
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