Bay Bridge Lights
What if the san francisco bay bridge were transformed into a breathtaking canvas of light.
Bay bridge lights. Since then the bay area has added 2 3 million people. The bridge consists of two crossings east and west of yerba buena island a natural mid bay outcropping inside san francisco city limits the western crossing between yerba buena and downtown san francisco has two complete suspension spans connected at a center anchorage. The metering lights were installed in 1974 to keep the bay bridge from being grid locked. Rincon hill is the western anchorage and touch down for the san francisco landing of the bridge connected by three shorter.
As part of a unique art project celebrating its 75th anniversary the west span of the bay bridge has been outfitted with. There has only been one significant change to the. That was the seminal question that ultimately led to the creation of the bay lights a monumental 1 8 mile wide tour de force by artist leo villareal. One minute they may bring.
High performance led lights spread a bright uniform glow across the roadway. Bridge in february 2014. San francisco s lesser known bridge unveiled a new look tuesday night. At twilight the bay lights turn the plain looking san francisco bay bridge into a shimmering mesmerizing nighttime light sculpture.
Simple lights alone would have been pretty enough but this light sculpture is dynamic computer controlled to create patterns and variations of patterns so many of them that you re unlikely ever to see it doing the same thing twice. 25 000 twinkling led lights come to life lighting up the night in the best city ever. The new east span features a cutting edge lighting system that was designed and fabricated specifically for the bay bridge. The bay lights is 1 8 miles wide and 500 feet high led light sculpture.
The original bay lights installation served as a major source of pride in san francisco and helped to increase tourism in the area said saeed shahmirzai of zoon engineering the bay bridge mep integrator. What is the bay lights. Artist leo villareal threw the switch and the san francisco oakland bay.