Decorative street lighting is designed to be a focal point in an outdoor area. It sets the tone of the space, creates visual drama, and weaves all of the elements together into a cohesive panorama. Area and street lighting is provided to ensure safe movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Decorative area and street lights are installed to provide comfortable visibility of activity areas and possible hazards, while contributing to the unique identity of the streetscape or the landscape of a defined area.
Lighting itself can be a work of art, and this is where decorative street lighting makes sense. Unifying the relationship between architecture and lighting allows a special district or community to establish a unique identity. While architectural street lighting seeks to create a cohesive lighting design that is specific to the elements characterizing a specific environment or property, decorative street lighting serves to reinforce the thematic style. A decorative street light draws attention to itself, creates visual depth and adds a sense of drama to the scene. It embellishes the environment in its own right with fixture scale, color, detailing and mounting heights as appropriate for the surrounding architecture and landscape elements within the special district or community as a whole.
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