80 Collins Street Office Building, Melbourne Skyscraper Lighting, Australian Architecture Photos
80 Collins Street Melbourne Building
17 May 2021
Still Light at 80 Collins Street Melbourne
Architects: Woods Bagot
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Can light make a skyscraper move"
Multidisciplinary design studio RAMUS unveils one of their largest artworks to date, a massive 42-storey façade of light that pulsates to inspire repose in Melbourne?s busy CBD.
A brilliant new work called Still Light graces the new 80 Collins St development that towers above Melbourne?s skyline. Featuring 1,136 metres of light and hours of visual content, the work radiates gently to encourage a slower rhythm in the CBD, evoking a sense that the architecture is moving.
?Still Light brings a calming energy. It slows the pace and gently beckons people back into the CBD.?
– Bruce Ramus, Artistic Director, RAMUS
Still Light was inspired by naturally occurring moments of light seen in the gas lamps that historically lined Collins St. The light patterns in the façade reflect and refract like facets of a cut diamond. When examined carefully, the artwork displays low-resolution animation with each individual light fixture programmed by RAMUS? creative team. As the light pattern moves, it shifts the buildings? appearance in ways that balance the scale of the skyscraper with an intimacy that can be felt for kilometres.

RAMUS? custom-built software platform called CORE controls each lig...