Giant spinning chandelier unveiled under Granville Street Bridge
Posted November 27, 2019 8:47 pm.
Last Updated November 27, 2019 10:11 pm.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – After weeks of construction and years of planning, a giant chandelier under the Granville Street bridge has been officially unveiled Wednesday night.
It’s four metres wide, eight metres tall and made up of LED lights and plastic crystals.
Eric Fredrickson with the city says it’s not just its size that makes it stand out.
“Twice a day at this point, the lights will all go on and it will descend from its spot under the bridge. It will slowly begin spinning. As it picks up speed the crystals will all splay out and create this moment of spectacle underneath the bridge.”
New spinning chandelier being unveiled under the Granville Street Bridge. Ppl here love it. Price tag: $4.88 million. Paid for by @westbankcorp. Same group who brought us the “Ladder to Nowhere” on Kingsway. Maybe they’ll use it to change the light bulbs @NEWS1130 @CityNewsVAN pic.twitter.com/TngTmiy94u
— Travis Prasad (@CityNewsTravis) November 28, 2019
Frederickson explains why the piece was installed.
The city since 1991 has required developers who are rezoning properties over 100-thousand square feet to provide public art as a condition of that rezoning. Or they can put money into a fund at the city that we can commission work through. All major developments have that requirement.
It’s a City if Vancouver requirement for public art to be installed anytime there’s rezoning greater than 100 thousand square feet. Westbank has multiple new developments that would have required art installments. They combined all of those to make this one big piece
— Travis Prasad (@CityNewsTravis) November 28, 2019
The chandelier worth almost 5-million dollars was funded by Westbank, the development company behind Vancouver House.
