LA announces winner of new streetlight design

Source: Smart Cities World Published: Sept. 7, 2020

Project Room, a Los Angeles-based design studio, has been selected as the winner of LA Lights the Way, a competition to design and create a new standard streetlight for the city.

Led by the Mayor’s Office and the Bureau of Street Lighting (BSL), the challenge was to consider how streetlights can incorporate new technology. This included space for text on each pole as well as provide shade to help ease the impacts of the climate crisis.

Trademark creativity

“Los Angeles is a place where the world comes to inspire and innovate, where we infuse everything with our trademark creativity, and where we always seek to invent new ways for government to be a force for good in people’s lives,” said Eric Garcetti, mayor.

“Project Room’s design illuminates a future that does more than brighten public spaces – it brings smarter design to our neighbourhoods, helps us combat climate change, and promotes equity across our city.”