HOH Architecten created “Lighten the Light”, a light artwork shown at Amsterdam Light Festival 2017 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
They elevate them to museum objects worth looking at. This also applies to the colour and intensity of the light itself. The modern LED lights appear cold and distant while the sodium light has an old-fashioned, warm character.
About HOH Architecten
HOH Architects are the only participants of the festival who make use of light that is readily available to us; in other words, streetlights. The architects highlight three historical streetlights (two crownlanterns and one ‘Ritterlantern’) along the…
Programme information from Amsterdam Light Festival. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.