Federation Square
A suspended catenary net carries light across the plaza without a single pole, focusing the glow onto the square's complex levels and the faceted facades that frame it.
Gaoyang International Cruise Terminal
Vertical accents and dynamic colour give a waterfront precinct a night identity — light becomes the facade after dark, read clean from across the water.
Jal Mahal
A palace that appears to float at the centre of Man Sagar Lake. Built in red sandstone in the eighteenth century, four of its five storeys sit submerged; only the top floor and its four corner chhatris stand above the water. LDP lit the monument from below the waterline. The luminaires sit on bespoke rigs that rise and fall with the lake, holding the wash true as the water level shifts through the seasons. The facades are washed ethereally, with no hardware in sight — the palace simply glows on the water, its reflection completing the form. A night-time icon, seen from the bank and never entered. The light makes the most of that distance: nothing competes with the silhouette, and the source is nowhere to be found.
Clarke Quay
Clarke Quay was being remade as a night destination, part of a wider revitalisation of Singapore's centre. Will Alsop's tensile enclosures gave the precinct climate control without touching the heritage buildings they sheltered — and LDP found the lighting inside the engineering. The foil print developed for the ETFE membranes works twice: by day it shades against the tropical sun; by night the same surface turns reflector, washing the circulation below in indirect light, no luminaires imposed on the old façades. The move was to let a small proportion of that light leak through the membrane rather than contain it. That leak became the signature — the glow that reads Clarke Quay as a place after dark, and the model other revitalisations have followed since.
