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Bang Tsai has carefully sorted out some of the lighting design cases and art installation cases in June 2024 for everyone to learn, appreciate and collect!
暗线 The Dark Line
照明设计:Artec Studio
In the heart of a mountainous region in eastern Taiwan, architecture and urban planning studio Michèle & Miquel has teamed up with dA VISION DESIGN to create a unique experience: The Dark Line, a cycling route through the mountains. The project draws on the region's past marked by railway lines that fueled the coal industry to create an eco-historical route that connects old roads with abandoned infrastructure. The Michèle & Miquel studio decided not to restore the tunnels with one goal: a low-key, "natural" intervention that respects the history of the site.
Point, line, and surface immersive art exhibition
With the warm attitude of "bringing stability to people", Ta Ya Group's 68th anniversary "Energy Art Exhibition" actively explores the complete blueprint of tomorrow's energy, so that energy can be generated, transmitted, converted, stored and managed, and a complete energy chain can be constructed, just like the life journey of sustainable energy. INCEPTION interprets the concept of "completeness" given by the energy chain into "points, lines, and planes", and interprets the energy chain in the form of "art" and "show" through the rhythm and shocking image design of the interactive lifting copper ball installation, combined with music and narration.
Xiangyu Traffic Control Central Yunyue Mansion Project
Lighting Design: Youmi Lighting Design
Xiangyu Traffic Control Central Yunyue Mansion is located in the Taopu plate of Putuo District, with an area of 3.4 hectares to Qishun Road in the east, planned H6-7 plot in the south, planned H6-4 plot in the west, and Lianguan Road in the north. The project is only about 1.5KM away from Central in a straight line, with unique location advantages and close access to the "Golden Belt" resources.
空心竹灯 The Lantern
设计：TLS Landscape Architecture | Tom Leader
In the venue of the 2024 Chengdu World Horticultural Expo, the "hollow bamboo lantern" unfolds like a translucent lamp, emitting an otherworldly light. Designed by TLS Landscape Architecture, the installation invites visitors into a labyrinth that reflects the both practical and abstract nature of bamboo, which has an enduring presence in Chinese cities. In form, the "hollow bamboo lamp" draws on the strength and humility of the material, and the core of the bamboo is always hollow. To reflect this, the installation is constructed from a bamboo frame and a steel frame encased in a white acrylic mesh that surrounds a hollow center that radiates a mysterious, elemental glow.
接吻桥 Kiss Bridge
照明设计：LAPD Lighting Design
Located in the sunset town of Phu Quoc, the "Kiss Bridge" is a sea bridge consisting of two branch bridges about 400 meters long, which are not fully connected, separated by about 50 centimeters, and couples can stand at each end to kiss and take selfies. The "Kissing Bridge" was born from the architect Marco Casamonti's reflections on the concept of connection. At the outermost end of the bridge, there is no physical link. Instead, this super building aims to create a connection between people who crave to meet, unite and kiss through emotion.
ARTIFACT BAR
照明设计：LightOrigin Studio Design Team:Eugenia Cheng, Ivan Zhang
Artifact Bar is a Speakeasy bar tucked away in the basement of BaseHall in Central, Hong Kong. The interior designers were inspired by the rhythmic patterns of the underground cistern, and the lighting was inspired by the calm and dramatic lighting and ethereal atmosphere of the underground cistern.
Clyde Place - Barclays Business Park
Lighting Design: BDP
Barclays has opened a new business park in Glasgow's Tradeston district. The campus consists of five buildings, as well as large public realms that have been carefully lit to create a new tranquil public space designed to encourage people to rest and stay.
Xinchang Big Buddha Temple lighting beautification project
Lighting Design: Dongliang International Lighting Design (Beijing) Center Co., Ltd
The Great Buddha Temple was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and is famous for its cliff carvings. Stone carvings, statues, ancient temples, mountain-shaped landforms, rich and colorful. Later generations gradually built it, and it became a good place for sightseeing and worshipping the Buddha and pilgrims were endless. I have always liked Buddhist culture, with fate, casualness, accompaniment, casual, from the quiet space of meditation to the Buddhist ceremony like the New Year, from the perspective of mortals, this is the whole appearance of life from static to moving.
ÉXÕ
The ÉXÕ cube is a synesthetic device that extends the phenomenon of echo into the visual-tactile realm. This cube is surrounded by a vibrational platform, each of which can resonate independently, and it embodies a reflection that flows constantly in the infinite void, in which these reflections fade away.
Hangzhou Haiwei Center
Lighting Design: LEOX Lighting Design
Located at No. 101 Binkang Road, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou Haiwei Center is positioned as a first-class high-tech business center facing the future information industry and renewing the city's development, and the project was completed in September 2022. Adhering to the design concepts and principles of "people-oriented", "environment" first, integrity, richness and openness, the architect gmp not only reflects the modernity and high quality, but also forms a unique echo with the original building in terms of architectural layout and façade modeling.
DIMENSIONS
ARTIST: HYBYCOZO
Collaborating artists Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu have created DIMENSIONS, a large-scale immersive installation at Sensorio under the stage name HYBYCOZO, which explores light, geometry and pattern. The result of three years of research and development, visitors are invited to wander through the "interstellar village", which is made up of striking metal structures. During the day, sunlight shimmers on the jewel-like surface, and at night, colored lights illuminate each piece from within, casting intricate shadows.
踢它 KICK IT
艺术家：LIMELIGHT (HUNGARY)
Niels Bohr's groundbreaking atomic model, which explained the structure of atoms, shook the scientific community in the early 20th century. IN THE ARTWORK "KICK IT", VISITORS CAN ELICIT A REACTION THAT CAUSES LIGHT TO JUMP FROM ONE BALL TO ANOTHER LIKE ELECTRONS.
ROW
CREATOR: TUNDRA
ROW is an audiovisual installation that explores the relationship between sound, holographic images, and space. Every second, lines of data float in the air and are converted into information, voice, and music. Information bits become symbols that can be combined into words, and words accumulate to form sentences that convey our thoughts, thoughts, and feelings. This installation is about information perception, new language, and spatial dialogue.
Beijing Changping Super Hopson Hui Dome Light Show
Lighting Design: RDI International Lighting Design
The project is adjacent to the core area of Zhongguancun in Haidian to the west, which is a new concept complex integrating office, retail, catering, trendy space, extreme sports and other diversified formats, and is also the first landing project of the "pan-cultural and entertainment theme complex" Chaoji Heshenghui, which will be used to hold international extreme events, music festivals, electronic competitions, art exhibitions and other trendy cultural activities. At the center of the site is the second largest dome in Asia with a diameter of about 110 meters, and the nighttime light show will give the oversized commercial space covered by it a variety of charms. In line with the commercial art trend activities with the theme of "pan-cultural entertainment", this place will be built into the largest and most attractive commercial integration in the north of Beijing, radiating the emerging consumer groups of Generation Z in Beijing.
巢 Nest
设计师:Kristel Fowler | Triinu Triibmann、Diederik Kales、Sander Vislapuu(UN-LIKE)
Titled "The Nest", the installation was commissioned by real estate developer Merko Ehitus Eesti and created by Estonian design agency Velvet and lighting design studio UN-LIKE. Crafted from repurposed materials, it gives new meaning to long-unused structures that were once scattered across the environment.
The Kitin
Lighting design: Cundall
Located in Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper, The Kitin International Commerce Centre (ICC), offers a first-class luxury Chinese dining experience. Our lighting design team provided a seamless and elegant lighting solution that blended seamlessly into the interior design. Drawing inspiration from the noble bridge structure, this creative approach elevates the grandeur of the ambience and brings a touch of sophistication to the dining experience.
Saman Mosque, Iran
照明设计：RGE Lighting Design
Spread over three floors with a basement of 3,300 square meters, this exquisitely lavish building has four domes, two minarets, two porticos, and six entrance porches, thus following the eclectic architectural style of the postmodern White Mosque. The main color of the building is white, as its façade is made entirely of Azner's white porcelain stone.
It's a digital paradICE THAT
创作者:Miguel Chevalier
Artist Miguel Chevalier is a pioneer of virtual art and is known worldwide for his extraordinary installations. He presented a surprising work for the Normandie Impressioniste Festival called Digital ParadICE IA, 2024. Always looking for something unusual to spark his creativity, Miguel Chevalier presented a unique installation at the ice rink in Rouen that elevated the artistic experience.
Auckland City Centre Cube
照明设计：Electrolight
The Auckland Cube is the final project in the Auckland City Centre development plan. It has become a shining jewel that lights up Auckland's night sky. The project uses a state-of-the-art lighting control system to create vivid and varied light scenes that celebrate seasonal festivals, local sports teams, and cultural events related to the local community.
Cordial Santa Águeda度假村
灯光设计:Rafael Gavira和 Emilio Pellejero
The Cordial Santa Águeda Resort in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is ideally located to rest, listen and enjoy the waves. There are 47 luxury holiday villas in three different types. Its vegetation, décor and color combinations are in perfect harmony with light and are designed to enhance the guest experience.
Dan Flaven: A Gift of Light
Artist: Dan Flavin
In 1963, Dan Flavin installed an industrial fluorescent tube on his studio wall at a 45-degree angle, declaring it to be a work of art, a radical move at the time and still relevant today. In honor of his contributions to Minimal Art, the Kunstmuseum Basel proudly presents an installation titled "Dan Flavin: Dedications in Lights," which delves into the American artist's work for other artists and major events