05 July 2011

"The Bella Chandelier" by 3XN

The Bella Chandelier is a large spatial tensegrity sculpture/lighting composed of LED tubes and cables. It was designed by the well known Scandinavian architect 3XN for the Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen (Denmark).

[...] The Bella Chandelier boasts 7,000 coolly glowing LED tubes linked in a minimalist pattern that took the best minds in design, science, and technology from 3XN's R&D arm GXN to create. [...]




Apparently LED tubes and tensegrity seem to be a new trend in design exploring the minimal aspect of tensegrity. It is true that LED tubes bring out nicely the floating aspect of struts in a tensegrity system.

You can find more about 3XN architect on: 3xn.dk.

The object of this post was found on : fastcodesign.com.

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