Weymouth Promenade Architectural lighting scheme

An LED lighting scheme on Weymouth Promenade brings vibrant colour changes to the promenade as dusk falls. Created by the London architects Tonkin Liu, the lighting scheme replaces the old festoon fairy light system that was in place, bringing a modern take to the seafront, while keeping the original colourful palette. Mounted onto existing columns, the led fittings are visually unobtrusive in daylight, but come to life at night and provide light and colour to the Promenade.

Architectural Lighting Scheme

I was commissioned to photograph this project for the architects Tonkin Liu. They wished to show how the project had transformed the promenade giving it a modern and fun feel. The project was sensitive to the location and he lighting scheme consists of 28 computer-controlled LED strips that amplifies the natural rhythms of Weymouth. Using an astronomical clock, the lights turn on each day in time with the rising and setting of the sun. They run through a variety of active colour scenes that celebrate natural rhythms, the activity of life and people promenading on the Promenade.

How was the photography shoot planned?

I visited this site before the actual shoot to see how the light changed throughout the evening and when the sun set. On the evening of the shoot, I started to take photographs as dusk fell with a long exposure. This captured the transition of light, as darkness fall over the promenade. in the beginning we see the coloured lights reflect across the bay, as the sun sets behind the town. The design celebrates the sweep of the bay and unifies the three areas of the seafront; the peninsula, the main esplanade and Greenhill. As the night falls, the lights change colour with different patterns along the promenade, throwing out different colours.  

Using a long exposure on a tripod the last few photographs atmospherically captures the trail of lights of the cars as they pass along.

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