World’s Largest LED Project Completed in Abu Dhabi

If you think your neighbor’s holiday lighting spectacle is an exercise in excess, wait till you see the world’s largest LED project, recently completed in Abu Dhabi. Created by Asymptote Architecture with lighting design by Arup, The Yas Hotel is a wrapped with a sparkling shell composed of more than 5,300 diamond-shaped panels bristling with over 5,000 LED fixtures. The curvilinear field of lights is capable of running color-changing light sequences and can even display low-res three-dimensional videos.

from Inhabitat » Architecture by Mike Chino

james turrell: the wolfsburg project at the kunstmuseum, germany

in collaboration with the kunstmuseum wolfsburg, american light artist james turrell has created his largest-ever walk-in light installation within a museum context: an 11 metre high structure 'space within a space' which covers a floor area of 700 metres and reaches up to the museum's glass roof being exhibited as part of the wolfsburg project exhibition.

photo by florian holzherr
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Cardiff Bay by Light Bureau

Light Bureau from London sent us their project Cardiff Bay. The parking garage buildings tend to leave us with bland facades. Cardiff Bay project shows us how bland can quickly become blank canvas for a innovative lighting design.

from ENLIGHTER.ORG by Lučka Slatner

metaconcrete: universe light

korean studio metaconcrete has sent in images of universe light.
a light illuminating inside the sponge shade creates universe-like shadow into the space.

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cliff garten studios: avenue of light, los angeles

'avenue of light' by cliff garten studio will open on june 25, 2009 in the city of
fort worth, USA.

rising 36 feet above the streetscape, the six 'avenue of light' sculptures are both
transparent and opaque, depending on the viewer’s position and time of day.
each sculpture is made of 100 stainless steel plates, whose forms are derived from
architectural details in the nearby texas & pacific terminal, an art deco landmark.

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The Mill - Alingsås project Report

Berry van Egten from Berlux was the leader of group of workshop participants working on The Mill project as part of Alingsås workshop organised by PLDA every year.

The concept as was written by the group: “The Mill is reawakening. The water falling under the bridge is once again churning its power to bring Stampens Kvarn back to life. Once past The Mill, this energy fades, moving downstream under the second bridge and back to sleep”.

from ENLIGHTER.ORG by Mitja Prelovsek

Henny Van Nistelrooy: 'flashmob'

'flashmob' by studio henny van nistelrooy is a chandelier made of light reflecting
discs that are normally used in photography. the process was initiated by making
different shapes within the transition from the folded flexible ring to flattened out.
it is configured using twelve of these elements to make a sphere chandelier.

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Solar Collector by Gorbet Design Inc.

Gorbet Design Inc is a creative team of designers working with innovative experimental art and invigorates environments. Their project Solar Collector exploits sun energy and uses it during nighttime for it’s unique performance of light.

from ENLIGHTER.ORG by Lučka Slatner