On the way through KX to visit St Pancras, I notice that the tiling is under attack.  I quite like the texture revealed as the tiles have been chiselled off - presumably as part of the ongoing renovations to the whole KX interchange. 


It's not often I use the Piccadilly Line through KX...usually I'm on the Victoria. The tiling that remains here are strange blocks of colour that I have no recollection of looking at before, but then before this project, like most people, the colour of the walls around me as I travelled the system barely registered on my consious mind.  Except for TCR -a always loved the crazy mosiacs at TCR.  

Despite being blocks of vivid colurs, the effect at KX is gloomy - like someone bought a job lot of random coloured tiles back in the 70s on the cheap  from a warehouse going out of business and used them all up at once in a vague effort to be cheery.  Municipal ideas of what is cheery are invariably depressing... 


I look forward to KX's Piccadilly Line emerging swan-like from the current dirty ugly duckling look it's working: