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Summer for the City

Lincoln Center's Paul Milstein Pool and Terrace at dusk, with a temporary art and light installation of golden rods with lightbulbs on top, and the Lincoln Center Theater behind.
Lincoln Center's Paul Milstein Pool and Terrace facing the Samuel B. & David Rose Building in the distance, showing an illuminated art installation for Summer for the City of hundreds of golden poles with lightbulbs on top inside the pool.

For Lincoln Center's 2026 Summer for the City programming, designer Clint Ramos envisioned an illuminated urban reed bed of 880 light-topped aluminum posts across Hearst Plaza's reflecting pool, with all electrical equipment submerged and hidden underwater for a three-month run through New York's humid summer. Hudson devised water-tight, weather-resistant enclosures of mirror and marine-grade plastic to protect and conceal 28 electrical enclosure boxes, then custom-built and pre-programmed the light reeds so they could remain constantly lit and perform a nightly wave effect throughout the run.

Location

Lincoln Center
New York, NY

Entity

Hudson Scenic Studios

Capabilities

Project management, Metal fabrication, Lighting and Electrification, Shipping and logistics, Installation

Industry

Experiential

Animation of a programmed wave of lights on top of tall and slender golden rods coming up from the bottom of Lincoln Center's Paul Milstein Pool, part of an art and light installation for Summer for the City.

Credits

Client: Lincoln Center

Design: Clint Ramos

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