Light and structure can affect each other in many ways depending on design. Light can accentuate structure and vice versa depending on the idea a designer would like to convey. I found this building on the way to the Lewis wharf site and was particularly interested in it and drawn to the blue lights illuminating the edges. In the case of this building, the light helps to accentuate the corners of the structure. I can easily see this building as a collection of building blocks where pieces begin to get pulled away towards the top. This removal of form even begins to reveal a lighter structure, which is primarily glass at the top compared to the massiveness that the concrete adds to the rest of the building. The lights at the corners of the subtracted spaces help to visualize the reduction of form from the bottom to the top of the building.
How is this about structure, and not form?
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