West Pender Place | 104m | 34 fl | Completed - Page 23

sacrifice333 · #**441** Posted **Jul 11, 2011, 7:16 PM**

Very nice.

Hopefully more new buildings will integrate some sort of lighting feature like this.

LeftCoaster · #**442** Posted **Jul 11, 2011, 7:25 PM**

It seems as though they are. Off the top of my head, Shaw, Melville and hermitage all have some sort of decorative lighting. Hopefully the trend continues.

Built Form · #**443** Posted **Jul 11, 2011, 7:40 PM**

pic by Built Form

Here's the best I could get without a tripod. The red horizontal bars on the left is the taller tower.

trofirhen · #**444** Posted **Jul 11, 2011, 8:20 PM**

Nice shot. Rather intriguing, in fact

Coldrsx · #**445** Posted **Jul 11, 2011, 9:15 PM**

enough LED stuff, use lintels with wash lighting

trofirhen · #**446** Posted **Jul 11, 2011, 11:32 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

enough LED stuff, use lintels with wash lighting

What are those? Got any pictures? Thanks?

LeftCoaster · #**447** Posted **Jul 12, 2011, 1:26 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by trofirhen

What are those? Got any pictures? Thanks?

Lintels is a term generally used to describe the underside of any overhanging architectural feature. Kind of like a soffit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lintel_(architecture)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coldrsx

enough LED stuff, use lintels with wash lighting

A healthy mix of both is nice... I prefer wash lighting to highlight features more, but LED has its place too. Or you could do like the CN Tower and combine the two.

PaperTiger · #**448** Posted **Jul 12, 2011, 4:26 PM**

Actually, leftcoaster what you have described sounds more like a cornice.

A lintel is the horizontal cross member above an opening. Picture a red brick building with granite pieces above each window (like in Gastown) the granite piece is the lintel.

Now I’m not sure what ColdRSX was referring to with lighted lintels??

LeftCoaster · #**449** Posted **Jul 12, 2011, 4:53 PM**

Technically you are correct... what i was saying is that generall all three terms are used interchangably (cornice soffit and lintel), which I imagine is what Cold was getting at.

If you check the link I posted originally it will show the exact definition and origins of lintel.

Coldrsx · #**450** Posted **Jul 12, 2011, 5:30 PM**

Lintel - lintel can be a load-bearing building component, a decorative architectural element.

(http://buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/l/lintel.jpg)

What I meant was more to use forms that created lintels as you go up in a decorative and offset manner, than imbed lights into them for wash lighting.

SpongeG · #**451** Posted **Jul 13, 2011, 4:51 AM**

Towering lighting display brightens Vancouver skyline

Kate Webb Jul 12, 2011 20:50:31 PM

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - There's a colourful new display lighting up the Vancouver skyline, and it's being billed as the city's largest lighting feature.

The computerized lighting installation extends 120 metres up the concrete face of the west tower of a posh new Coal Harbour condo development called West Pender Place, and 30 metres up the east building.

Dutch lighting artist Tamar Frank was selected to create the unique work by a jury in an international competition. Developer Reliance Properties spent its entire $400,000 budget for public art - a budget required by the city - on the two vertical columns of light.

"I work a lot with architecture and light and public places and public environments," explains Frank, who used over 600 light-emitting diodes - or LED lights - to complete the installation.

"This is my biggest commission to date, so for me it's really exciting."

The lighting feature took two years to design and implement, and the lights are expected to glow at full brightness for 10 years.

Frank designed 40 different pre-set colour combinations to ensure the lighting design changes gradually several times an hour. Though it will stay on day and night, she says the best time to see it this time of year is after 9:30 p.m.

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http://www.news1130.com/news/local/artic...ting-display-brightens-vancouver-skyline

gallery of pics at the link

Hed Kandi · #**452** Posted **Jul 13, 2011, 1:41 PM**

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wrenegade · #**453** Posted **Jul 13, 2011, 5:28 PM**

Bad ass. Can't wait to see this one in person.

nova9 · #**454** Posted **Jul 13, 2011, 11:14 PM**

I heard today is the first time it is turned on and not in a testing phase. Will anybody be in the area to take pictures?

peters · #**455** Posted **Jul 13, 2011, 11:29 PM**

http://www.vancouversun.com/storey+light+installation+illuminates+Coal+Harbour/5098223/story.html

Locked In · #**456** Posted **Jul 14, 2011, 5:20 PM**

From YouTube:

• Video Link

Jebby · #**457** Posted **Jul 15, 2011, 12:39 AM**

I wonder how long it will take under people complain and they get turned off....

Are they lit up all night?

Metro-One · #**458** Posted **Jul 15, 2011, 12:42 AM**

That is my worry too, but it is such an amazing lighting feature!!!

This is what i have been wanting to see for a looong time here!

Again, would love such effects on the Sears building.....especially on the Granville / Robson sides....

logan5 · #**459** Posted **Jul 15, 2011, 12:48 AM**

Retro fit these lights on all the residential towers in downtown and our night time skyline would look crazy. I'm not sure if it would be a good crazy or a bad crazy though.

SpongeG · #**460** Posted **Jul 15, 2011, 1:36 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by galeforcewinds

I wonder how long it will take under people complain and they get turned off....

Are they lit up all night?

its on 24 hours a day