1) Tower of Light
by Ed Carpenter, in front of Orlando City Hall
(400 S. Orange Avenue)

Orlando City Hall Plaza Tower is an illuminated 60' high stainless steel and laminated glass monument at the heart of downtown Orlando, Florida. Placed at the point where the centerline of the city´s main business boulevard, Orange Avenue, intersects a diagonal axis from the front door of the new City Hall, the tower celebrates physically and metaphorically the intersection of private and public interests in Orlando, and is a symbol for the aspirations of the community.

The tower was commissioned after a series of public meetings in which the need for a monument was conceived. Ed Carpenter designed the tower and oversaw its fabrication and erection, working with a variety of consultants, material suppliers, and fabricators from the U.S. and Japan, as well as on-site contractors. The tower is illuminated at three different levels by computerized lights programmed to accentuate its botanical metaphor.

Installation: 1992.
Dimensions: 60' x 10'.
Materials: Laminated plate glass and  stainless steel; computerized lighting.

Client: City of Orlando City, FL.
Engineers: K.P.F.F., Portland, Oregon.
Steel Fabrication and Installation:  Fabrication Specialties, Ltd., Seattle,  WA.
Glass Fabrication: Tempglass, Inc.,  Perrysburg, Ohio.
Lighting Design: Craig Marquardt,  Boring, Oregon.
Design Consultation: Heller and Leake  Architects, San Francisco, CA.

THE ARTIST "ED CARPENTER'S" WEBSITE.

http://www.edcarpenter.net/portfolio/0201.html

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this is a great thing that needs to be repeated world wide.....

Tower of light Yoko's final gift to her Beatle

The late John Lennon tried to "imagine all the people living life in peace." So it was only fitting that on day when he would've celebrated his 67th birthday, his widow Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island near Reykjavik, Iceland.

The tower is a stories-tall beam of light that will radiate from a wishing well bearing the words "imagine peace" in 24 languages. It will be lit each year between Oct. 9 and Dec. 8.

Ono, 74, said she came up with the concept for the light tower in 1965, and that Lennon was interested. "This is the biggest birthday present I gave to John," she said last month. The former Beatle was shot dead outside their New York apartment building Dec. 8, 1980, by deranged fan Mark David Chapman.