Amazing Architectural Light Sculptures

Innovations in lighting design are often gimmicky or merely a case of LED everywhere. This list illustrates where lighting is sculptural and integral to architecture, from a night club made of glowing bricks, Daniel Libeskinds wireframe architectural chandelier, the amazing Lighthive exhibition at the Architectural Association and futuristic light sculptures by Kalle. Our LED example creates a grid of LED points that appear to float in mid air.

The directors of the National Malus Collection invited Heatherwick Studio to develop the design of this structure, called “The Sitooterie”, for their site in Essex. (Link)

This two-story tall glass-and-light
sculpture representing fire greets FireLake Grand Casino visitors. (Link)

Illuminated cubes, visual effects and electronic beats: these are the ingredients of the Kubik temporary open air clubs in Berlin and Barcelona. The dynamic space, light and sound
sculpture is based on standard industrial liquid storage tanks . The incorporation of a light bulb turns the plastic tanks into giant luminaires, which can be stacked and arranged to form objects of varying sizes and shapes. (Link)

Curated by Paul Schimmel, this matrix-like light
sculpture is called “Ecstasy: In and About Altered States.” (photo: Ira Lippke)
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The Anemix in a Teriyaki Restaurant. (Link)

“Lights on Tampa” was a computer-controlled LED Installation, made as part of the project “FADE III” in 2005.
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The most efficient way to recycle plastic bottles  is to reuse them, and Austrian design company Walking-Things.com made this creative design-it-yourself solution for it. With the PET Light, which Walking-Things claims was the first ever hanging lamp system for plastic bottles, you can make one or a hundred hanging lamps, creating tame or totally wild ones. Pretty awesome. (Link)

Dark Matter is a 25 foot high, interactive, luminous dynamic light s culpture.  The fluid glowing waves are created by a whirling rope. Invisible Soundbeams hidden in the pyramid-like structure detect gestures and control the
sculpture. (Link)

Dynamic light
sculpture made of a long line of blinking Christmas lights hanging from a very high helium balloon. “That’s One Tall Fucking Thing” aka the Beanstalk, by Mike Light, David Rattray, and Wil Van Hazel. (Link)

An immersive and human responsive light
sculpture presented at the opening of Volume at the V&A museum in London. (Link)