LOT-EK's HI-LIGHTS installation welcomes GC2018 athletes using nearly 100 highway lights

assigned by the gateways public art commission, new york-based design studio LOT-EK’s latest light installation, HI-LIGHTS, delivers a visually bold symbol of gold coast in australia. the project features nearly 100 modified highway lights and poles, closely spaced at different heights. the lights will appear to spell out the city’s name in the northern installation and feature the letters GC at the southern site. city of gold coast mayor tate said the gateways would ‘bookend’ the city and become an iconic ‘welcome’ to visitors and ‘welcome home’ for residents. 

HI-LIGHTS, LOT-EK (southern site)

LOT-EK is internationally renowned for ‘up-cycling’ everyday objects, and in this case re-purposing street lights. both artworks will be located in highly visible areas, in the north along the pacific highway and in the south near the airport on the gold coast highway. The northern artwork will stretch 100 metres and reach a maximum height of 11 meters. gold metallic paint will add to the geometry that echoes and amplifies the rounded letters at each location.

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‘together, they will create a sense of arrival and welcome for locals, visitors and GC2018 athletes, regardless of whether they visit us from the north or south,’ explains mayor tate ‘this is the latest of many arts and culture projects underway. locals and visitors will see a very different gold coast, a city more mature in its cultural offer, before, during and after the games’. the commonwealth games, held in gold coast in 2018, is an amateur sports competition held every four years between member countries of the commonwealth.

HI-LIGHTS, LOT-EK (northern site)

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edited by: lynn chaya | designboom