Liverpool Street station gets polka dot sculpture

The polka dot sculpture is 100m (330ft) long

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 (TfL) 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".

TfL has called the artwork a "monumental addition"

Last year, Liverpool Street station overtook London Waterloo to become Britain's busiest station, boosted by passengers using the Elizabeth line.

Kusama said: "London is a massive metropolis with people of all cultures moving constantly.

"The spheres symbolise unique personalities while the supporting curvilinear lines allow us to imagine an underpinning social structure.”

TfL said the 100m (330ft) long, 10m (33ft) high and 12m (40ft) wide "highly reflective architectural form... responds to both individual and collective experience within the changing spaces of the urban landscape of London".