Light Projects' illumination concept for Brooklyn's Coney Island Parachute Jump was unveiled in July 2006
as a public event and was later the recipient of New York Construction Magazine's "Award of Merit", the
New York Landmarks Conservancy's "Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award" and the highest lighting design industry
award, The Lumen. The revisualization of the landmark 277-foot structure, widely considered Brooklyn's answer
to the "Eiffel Tower", was developed with a consortium of owner/stakeholders including the Borough President
and Parks Commissioner. The Coney Island district is undergoing revitalization efforts, and this project is
seen as a symbol and marker of progress. Light Projects' enhancement of the tower evokes the rising and
falling of the well-remembered parachutes for which the structure was originally built. Directional lighting
offers the viewer vantage points from as close as one hundred feet to as far as a mile away. Lighting systems
include color-changing floodlights and custom-designed light emitting diodes (LED). Brightly sparkling LEDs,
defining the canopy of the tower and the tower itself, are programmed to animate a calendar of sequences,
playing nightly to identify on-and-off boardwalk seasons, full-moon cycles and holidays.
