Mighty Bright Lights: 12 Amazing(ly Green) LED Displays

Bruce Munro’s Field of Lights

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Known for his complex light installations that look like high-tech fields of flowers, Bruce Munro takes his works of art on the road for displays that are placed outside museums and landmarks all around the world. This version of his installation ‘Field of Light’ illuminated the grass with little LED spheres outside the Holburne Museum in Bath, UK in fall 2011.

Twilight Epiphany Skyspace in Houston, Texas

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From a distance, the Twilight Epiphany Skyspace by James Turrell almost looks like a UFO hovering over the landscape. The 72-square-foot floating canopy at Rice University in Houston, Texas includes a complex arrangement of LED lights that interact with the natural light present during sunrise and sunset. The LED light sequences are arranged according to the solar calendar so the light and music shows never happen at exactly the same time.

Dynamic LED Design for Moscow’s Pushkinksy Cinema

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While this proposal wasn’t ultimately chosen to reimagine Russia’s Pushkinsky Cinema for the “Changing the Face – Moscow 2011” design competition, it certainly would have made a bold statement. ‘Rossiya’s Flourish’ by Studio Toggle would have rotated the axis of the cinema by 30 degrees and surrounded it with an LED-covered “ruffle” that projects images.

Glowing Fish Sculptures Made of Recycled Bottles

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Not only are these giant illuminated fish sculptures really cool looking, they’re also made from recycled plastic bottles. The two giant fish emerging from the sand of Botafogo Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil were made for the Rio +20 Conference for sustainable development.