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It is an island of light floating in the desert. Lighting technology in Las Vegas is not sedentary, but reinventing itself daily. How can we seize the inviting eyes of visitors? What is attractive lighting? In this place, day is night and night is day. Everybody’s internal clock has goes haywire. From the top of the Stratosphere Tower, the lights of The Strip appear out of the black desert, like the lights of a spacestation. Exterior lighting of the Venetian Resort Hotel. Tourists sit in front of casino slot machines 24 hours a day with no perception of time, since even during the day the interior is keep fairly dark.

During the day short sleeves are fine, but even the Russian summer nights are cool with a little bit of white breathe after the sun goes down. Many main roads run through the middle of Moscow with classic Stalin style architecture lining the sides of the streets. The detailed, but dynamic lighting is very becoming for this architecture. On the other hand, lighting for roadways and plazas is rougher and not as artistically finished. The Red Square has been the stage for numerous historical events. The entire plaza is beautiful paved in stone, but at night huge floodlights shine huge amounts of light on the plaza and the glare is unbelievable. This beautiful, palace-like subway station platform is not uncommon in Moscow. We didn’t see one naked fluorescent light, very common in Japan, but each platform space was softly lit with indirect lighting. In the suburbs of Moscow along the river is the new “Moscow City,” a large multi-complex project still under construction. The developed area is a whopping 10,000 sqkm! What kind of lighting will this new town have? We’ll have to wait until its finished in 2020.

11 July The Lighting Detectives hosted the first of three salons focusing on residential lighting Friday, July 11th at the New Maru Building Ecozzeria. The hall was packed with over 100 guest who listened intently to the speakers who presented; “Residential Lighting: Past, Present, Future ? Rediscovering Residential Lighting from the Past to Modern Day.” by: saiko tanuma During the fiscal year of 2008 ? 2009 the Lighting Detectives will be hosting a series of 3 salons, all focusing on the influences of residential lighting. In discussing the culture of lighting, residential lighting seems like the best and most important starting point, as we delve into and analyze the why`s, what`s, and how`s. Our first salon outlined the history of residential lighting, with an emphasis on the ideal form of lighting from past to present in Japan. Kaoru Mende, and members of the Lighting Detectives, also heard contributions from guest speaker, Kazuya Ura, architect and interior designer. First on the program, a report from a survey of the Yoshihara residence in Kyoto by Lighting Detective members, who relayed their findings about Japanese light and the lighting environment of an old, Japanese-style house. What kind of effects do the daily changes in natural light contribute to the lighting environment? What can be done in the light of a single lantern? These are just some of the thought provoking questions raised and discussed during their presentation. Mr. Ura presented examples of his…

Date: October 13, 2004-November 8, 2004Place: Matsuya Ginza 7F Design Gallery 1953Host: Japan Design Committee The place is Tokyo. The year is 2050. The topic is light. One hundred and nineteen professionals from various fields, architects, designers, photographers, critics, were brought together to discuss and predict the future of light in Tokyo. Will the future grow darker? Or will it become brighter? The psychological state of the people and society were also critical factors in these predictions, which have taken the form of words, models, and video, now on display in Ginza. 2050 HOME ・ STREET ・ CITY To show the lives of people in 2050, three types of models, HOME, STREET, and CITY, were made by the students of Mende seminar of Musashino Art University. A city image where there are many desires and leaps and bounds for imagination, such as houses with no lighting fixtures and scattered light-emitting surfaces, towns without street lights, and towns that shine with multiple layers was drawn. [HOME]No lighting fixture.Only the decorative luminaries of candlelight survive.Floors, walls, ceilings, table tops, etc. emit light.The light-emitting surface plays a role as not only the lighting but also information such as TV and newspapers.Large dimming control glass screen for taking in sunlight.Control how the space shines freely. [STREET]No pole light on the street.Cars and pedestrians shine.The road is not illuminated but emits light.Completely separate human and car traffic levels.Lanes shine and car driving is automated.Greening progresses…

2013.08.02 Zou-No-Hana Park, Yokohama Summer Holiday Children`s Workshop @Zou-No-Hana Park, Yokohama Down by the Bay Seventeen children and their parents gathered at dusk at Yokohama`s Zou-No-Hana Park to observe, experience and draw the Yokohama skyline. The children and their parents spread out over the grassy area in full view of the Landmark Tower, World Porter`s Ferries Wheel, Queen`s Square, Red-brick Warehouse, and bay area with front row seats to the gradual shift from daytime to sunset to night. workshop contents 17：50～　Meet and brief orientation 18：10～20：00　draw before and after sunset scene with having lunch box 20：00～20：30　Presentation by each child Drawings in the Night The children had no problem starting their drawings! They each selected what they thought was the most interesting building and set to work. As the children worked drawing the skyline, some noticed the changes in the sky and a few lights here and there began to shine. Some children concentrated on the more concrete objects and buildings of the cityscape, but when pointed out they started to take notice of the changes in the sky and lights of the buildings, ferris wheel, boats, and reflections on the water. Light, natural or artificial, is an abstract concept and especially hard to express for the first time in a drawing. Each drawing turned out different as each child saw the city and its transformation from day to night in their own unique way. The children drew the sky in shades…