Solar Trees in Vienna
Contributing Monkie G Living Staff Monkies
Topics of Interest solar, street lamp
Ross Lovegrove’s Solar Trees are catching both eyes and rays.
Installed outside Vienna’s MAK Museum as part of the MAKDesignNite program, these glowing self-powered “trees” are the creations of Welsh designer Lovegrove in cooperation with Artemide, the Italian lighting innovator, and Sharp Solar, the globe’s solar cell leader. Powered entirely by solar technology – the panels atop the canopy collect the sun’s energy for later use – these remarkable fixtures are fully free-standing and are not even wired into the grid.
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