Quebec City Lights Up The Night
As part of the preparations for the 400th, the provincial Commission de la capitale nationale du Quebec proposed a new light plan, or Plan luminere, for Quebec City. The goal was to install new showcase lighting on as many as 63 properties by 2008. After a four-year pause, the second phase of the new showcase night lighting is to be unveiled in 2012. Gazette article.

MIT's FAST LIGHT May 2011

The culminating event of the FAST Festival shimmered on the waterfront of MIT’s campus. A night of kinetic illumination kicked off with the launch of Otto Piene’s Sky Event, when a group of students and alumni flew a large-scale, brightly lit star over Killian Court. From dusk until dark, FAST Light glowed along the Charles River waterfront and on MIT’s campus with projects created by MIT students and faculty.

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Historic Boston March 2011
HBI will soon install new exterior lighting on three prominent historic buildings in Dorchester's Fields Corner in order to draw attention to their well-preserved facades and enhance night time safety in the business district. The buildings are The Lenane Building built in 1906, the former Municipal Building built in 1875, and the former Dorchester Theatre built in 1915. To read more, click here.

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December 2010. In 1887 the Leif Erikson Statue was erected on Commonwealth Avenue (at Charlesgate East). Leif Erikson came some time in the year 1000, and it is theorized he sailed up the bay, crossed Boston Harbor, and penetrated the Charles River to Cambridge and Watertown, where he attempted the founding of Vineland.  With funds from the Browne Fund, this statue is now receiving new updated illumination.  John Powell, Light Boston board member, will replace the sodium vapor flood lights attached to existing light poles with a narrow beam metal halide (white) spot light.

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December 2010. Illumines Rooms in the City of New York!  Leni Schwendinger, acclaimed lighting urbanist designer and artist, shares with us a venture to Manhattan.  From the terminals of Port Authority to the bright lights of Time Square and the muted majesty of Bryant Park at night, Schwendinger takes us on an odyssey that explores the unique effects of lighting in the city that doesn't sleep. http://lenischwendinger.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/as-you-light-it-dwell-magazine-video-and-leni-schwendinger/l

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February 25, 2010, a dedicated group of supporters gathered at Old South Meeting House to celebrate the unveiling of Light Boston's latest project: the beautiful illumination of the Meeting House steeple. The illumination of this 1729 landmark coincided with the Meeting House's restoration of its historic tower clock. As if by design, these two incredible projects were both completed in the last few weeks of the project. Now, the steeple is beautifully washed in light and the spectacular clock quiety ticks again high above Washington Street. To learn more about this celebration, click here.

Check it out! What this incredible demonstration of the magic of light and 3-D laser projection on a building in Portugal.

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