Either through daylight, artificial light, or a deft mixture of the two, lighting reveals the architecture of a building. But it's at night when light can really animate.

The Eiffel Tower , The Sphinx, Sydney Opera House and the Empire State Building . All of these are icons of architecture and engineering, but all of these buildings would be mere shadows of their greatness, without the illumination of great lighting design.

Great lighting design adds the magic to a building, and in keeping great buildings in view throughout the night, literally brings them to life.

Moreover, lighting design can change the form of what is perceived. For example, in 2005, the cathedral city of Canterbury in Kent , UK , wanted to transform the way that the city was seen. It chose light as its medium, commissioning lighting designers to create works that would make visitors to the city think again, and breathe life into the city after night. One work even used light to turn the city's 12th century Westgate Tower into a giant piece of Japanese origami. The head of cultural development at Canterbury City Council commented:

“These works have inspired our imaginations and fuelled our aspirations. We have created images that live on in the memory long after the lights go out”

Great lighting makes magic happen

To create effects with this kind of impact requires the skills of a specialist. In the past, when lighting was left to a mechanical engineer or architect, it was often neglected and under-resourced. However, architects and engineers are starting to realise what the great figures in their profession have always known: that great lighting design makes their work shine. Lord Norman Foster takes a strategic view of lighting design, and incorporates it from the start into all of his projects. He recently commented:

" As an architect I have always been fascinated about light - how you engineer light, filter it, deflect it, diffuse it and pull it into habitable space and how that brings about another poetic human dimension, a dimension of change and unpredictability. "

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