LightRails: A Neglected Railroad Underpass Illuminated by Artist Bill FitzGibbons

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Built in 1931, this Art Deco railroad underpass in Birmingham, Alabama is a vital gateway between the heart of downtown and a new urban space called Railroad Park. In recent years the dark tunnel had deteriorated into an unwelcoming and potentially dangerous area, so the city hired sculptor and public artist Bill FitzGibbons to create a lighting solution that would encourage more pedestrian traffic. Titled LightRails the installation is composed of a network of computerized LEDs that that form various lighting patterns in the previously darkened underpass.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/bill-fitzgibbons-lightrails/

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. I recognized it immediately

I've visited to Birmingham several times by train. It always caught my attentionsince my Dad was born on 1931.

I like the upgrade!

[navarth]

2. What a beauty

Would that all our underpasses looked like that.

[BlueJazz]

3. Beautiful wavelenths.