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Swiss artist Felice Varirri's latest piece for the King's Cross 'quarter' embraces several buildings and CSM's new HQ, reports Shumi Bose
Changes around King's Cross have been drastic and continual over recent years. Anchored by the Stanton Williams-designed Granary Building - the new HQ for Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design - the new 'quartet is the site of a number of flashy new developments. But flashes of a more striking nature animate the Granary Square buildings at the moment, thanks to Swiss artist Felice Varini.
Taking the changeable cityscape as his canvas, the former painter has allowed his artwork, called Across the Buildings, to embrace several historic industrial structures adjacent to the new CSM building, as well as the campus. It runs across the surface of several buildings for a total of 542m around Granary Square, broken into several reflective aluminium shards.
From street level, angular silver flashes seem like arbitrary, if vaguely deconstructivist, shapes...