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# LightRails
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/lightrails-70b3a4a7-6fd4-4b8a-9d71-2791a933ab81/
- Published: 2013-08-07T13:33:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:52.000Z
- Description: Artist Bill Fitzgibbons transforms a derelict street underpass into a mesmerising tunnel of colours and light.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Urban researchers suggest that the reconversion of industrial buildings or abandoned sites into creative spaces that can host interactive installations, pop-up exhibitions, and other happenings, might lead the way to a wider urban regeneration. The latest project of this sort comes from artist Bill Fitzgibbons. LightRails is a light installation that transforms a derelict street underpass in Birmingham, Alabama, into a vibrant tunnel of colours. To encourage pedestrian traffic between two major areas of the city, Fitzgibbons designed a computerised LED network made of 250 units that change colors and frequencies. The rainbow installation is only a part of a greater plan devised by REV Birmingham that aims to animate the city, and to make it more connected and secure by illuminating some of its key structures.

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