Design studio Bompas & Parr is running a competition to reinvent the firework as part of this year's London Festival of Architecture. Here are six of the most interesting concepts.
Bompas & Parr launched the competition as the studio believes that although impressive, fireworks have not significantly evolved in hundreds of years.
"Fireworks is still moving through its abstract expressionist phase," Bompas & Parr co-founder Sam Bompas told Dezeen.
"The hope is this project is a goad to creativity, new ideas and new sensations for audiences. There's also much scope for future sustainable fireworks."
The studio launched the competition to celebrate the 20th anniversary of London Festival of Architecture (LFA).
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"Fireworks are the most celebratory medium conceivable," said Bompas. "The aim is to create an architectural and creative project that makes you fizz."
"One of the crucial things we are looking for is pyro-factor," he continued. "Does the concept deliver the emotional heft and impact you'd look for in a firework display. Ideas that will provoke awe, wonder and ego death as you turn your face to the sky."
Read on for six concepts that reimagine fireworks:

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