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Development of this project which used the Canary Wharf tower
as an easel supporting a huge kinetic light and laser installation
seen over 20km.
The lighting installation involved the choreographing of 2km high
beams of light above the tower with up to 15km long laser beams
emanating horizontally. To compliment the monumentality of the searchlights
and lasers the four sides of the building were animated by a computerised
digitised light display creating changing patterns over a height
of twenty floors.
On New Year's Eve the public spaces at Canary Wharf and all the
way down river were jammed by hundreds of thousands of people witnessing
the monumental digital countdown on the Western face of the tower.
The countdown was accompanied by a awesome pyrotechnic display creating
a 350m high wall of light and specially commissioned sound piece
using maritime fog horns. Acres of newsprint coverage, with world-wide
TV audience of multi-millions are testimony to the power of the
event.
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