Traffic Light tree
- 年代
- 1998 年
- 题材
- 公共艺术
- 国家
- 英国
Traffic Light Tree is a public sculpture in between Poplar and Blackwall, London, England, created by the French sculptor Pierre Vivant following a competition run by the Public Art Commissions Agency for the London Docklands Development Corporation under their Public Art programme. Originally situated on a roundabout in Canary Wharf, at the junction of Heron Quay, Marsh Wall and Westferry Road, it is now located on a different roundabout near Billingsgate Market in Poplar.
Eight metres tall and containing 75 sets of lights, each controlled by computer, the sculpture was described by Vivant thus:
The Sculpture imitates the natural landscape of the adjacent London Plane Trees, while the changing pattern of the lights reveals and reflects the never ending rhythm of the surrounding domestic, financial and commercial activities.
The Public Art Commissions Agency has said "the arbitrary cycle of light changes…
摘自英文维基百科「Traffic Light Tree」(CC BY-SA 4.0),暂时没有中文条目。