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The Wishing Well
The Wishing Well – a main attraction of the Sandnes Municipality’s Watercolours project in The European Culture Capital 2008.
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Watercolours gives the river stretch special lighting effects enhancing the streaming water, with reflecting illumination on the embankments.
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Dale
Previously a psychiatric ward, today, the largest reception centre for asylum seekers in Norway, Dale is a place for people with a history not only from the sunny side of life. At Dale, the trees in the large orchard are transformed into individual light-sculptures illuminated from different compass direction.
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The Gate
The Gate is a large scale light-installation at the mouth of the Gandsfiord, located on mount Lifjell. It marks the transition from natural landscape to township along the entrance to Sandnes Municipality - whether you travel by car or boat.
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Streams and Flows
Sandnes city centre is split in two parts by the railway line. A new, creative illumination of our railway station subways will give us safer traffic and walkways. The subways become lighted portals, pleasant to use, mirroring the users who can observe themselves and others as active elements of the township.
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The Mirror
Large, scintillating drop-shaped figures are to be placed in the vicinity of the Sandnes Culture Centre in the Vågen bay area – where Sandnes meets Gandsfjorden. A low geyser in the middle of the bay associates the drops with the sea.
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Ripples
The light installation of Ripples marks the close connection between the city and the fiord, as well as highlighting the Sandnes classical building tradition.
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The Junction of Light
Virtual lines continue the firm street structures of the city centre, crossing the natural form of the fiord and the landscape and terminate at The Junction of Light - an illuminated fountain of water spray in the Vågen bay.
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