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dennis van melick: three to one traffic light
design | 11.03.11
designed for the needs of both ordinary and colourblind users, the 'three to one traffic display' utilizes LED screens and existent infrastructure in a traffic light that can be automatically modified to create bus ...
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bruce munro: water-towers at salisbury cathed
art | 01.13.11
the installation consists of 69,000 meters of optic fibres which bruce munro and his team have laced through 15,000 bottles. each of the 69 towers are built from 216 bottles containing 30 tons of water, forming a m...
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psychic factory: droplet traffic light
design | 12.27.10
what if instead of wasting time at red lights, you could access news and weather updates directly from the street?
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milan LED light festival 2010
design | 12.22.10
using light as their tools and the city as the canvas, new works by fabio novembre, karim rashid, and matteo thun explore the concepts of time, memory, and modernity.
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AUDI T energy light tower by luca trazzi
design | 12.22.10
LED technology plays a vital role in shaping the AUDI brand image. during the milan LED light festival 2010 , the italian architect luca trazzi designed a 22-meter-tower, made of solar cells and LEDs, that absorbs l...
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quartier des spectacles lighting plan
design | 03.14.10
a pilot project done in montreal’s cultural district that experiments with projecting light onto the pavement to mark the urban landscape.
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mario nanni: la luce della musica
art | 12.11.09
'la luce della musica' is a visual and musical experience, projected onto the façade of milan's opera house teatro alla scala. the piece is a tribute to the opera 'carmen' by georges bizet, which opens the opera se...
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alberto meda and paolo rizzatto: i satelliti

design | 12.10.09
made in 1986 by alberto meda and paolo rizzatto, this lamp now lives within the city of milan as a king-size version of its original, going by the name of 'i satelliti della scala'.
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paul cocksedge: kiss
design | 12.10.09
kiss was developed on the idea of staging intimate encounters within the public sphere. cocksedge has produced an installation which reinvents the european tradition of kissing under the mistletoe and turned it into...
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BYTR architects: greenspotlight
design | 12.09.09
greenspotlight is a green public light in which living plants have been woven into a frame to form the shade. there is also a ring of integrated planters around the bottom of the shade - combining greenery and stre...
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patricia urquiola: spiro gira
design | 12.09.09
patricia urquiola's spiro gira lights are installed along milan's corso vittorio emanuele. the forms look like corseted frames influenced by twists and twirls, like those that children draw, transformed into three-...
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marco hemmerling: lighttube
design | 12.03.09
located in the city's centre square pierre fatio, the concept behind the lighting installation is based on two aspects of spatial perception.
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nishant jethi: the clenoscope

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