Every city has a pattern — a fingerprint of roads, rivers, harbours and a century of expansion that is invisible to anyone standing inside it. City Gazing makes that pattern visible, suspended in the air above you and glowing like a circuit board seen from orbit.
It is a site-specific light installation, designed and produced fresh for every location. No two editions are ever the same. The work has travelled to Dubai, Singapore, Aarhus, Beijing, Riyadh, Sydney, Helsinki and Kaohsiung — where it is now permanently installed.
Site-specific by design
Every edition begins with deep research into a city's urban and architectural history. Old maps, satellite imagery and historical records shape the pattern that eventually hangs in the air. Amsterdam looks nothing like Dubai; Singapore looks nothing like Riyadh. That specificity is the work.
Animated light
The installation doesn't just depict a city — it shows the city growing, a custom animation tracing the expansion of roads, neighbourhoods and infrastructure across a century, overhead and in real time.
An original soundscape
Each edition is paired with a commissioned soundscape that tells the city's story — the rapid growth of 1980s Dubai, the wartime silence of Singapore, the relocation of a government. Sound and light make history felt rather than read.
Scale
Up to 20 × 30 metres and eight metres tall, City Gazing is built for large public spaces, festival sites, atriums and civic architecture. It fills a room or a square. Once installed, it runs autonomously for at least three months.
- Dimensions
- 20 × 30 m
- Materials
- LED strips, Dyneema wire net, PVC tubes, aluminum
Where City Gazing has been
9 projects
