Written for SPIE Newsroom, this article features artist Sarah Hall and her work True North/Lux Nova, a stained glass window that incorporates solar cells into its design. The window acts as both a passive and active heating and lighting system for the Regent College, University of British Columbia’s underground library.
More information about Sarah’s work is available at her website. A story featured in SPIE Professional that discusses a variety of applications of photonics and optics to the art world, and vice versa, is available to SPIE members here.
[...] have installed a couple of these in Canada, which I’ve written about before on this blog, but I believe this article is correct in claiming this is the first installation in a major U.S. [...]
[...] architecture, green technology, sculpture, solar, solar cells, solar power Do you vaguely remember a blog post I wrote several months ago about the True North/Lux Nova tower in Vancouver, BC? It’s a [...]