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fLUX, music for trainstations

Union Station, Toronto, Canada

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang

2025

92 arches at Toronto’s Union Station transcribe the movement of passers-by (the flow) into evolving patterns of light, (lux) and a music for trainstation, based on a pentatonic scale.

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92 arches at Toronto’s Union Station transcribe the movement of passers-by (the flow) into evolving patterns of light, (lux) and a music for trainstation, based on a pentatonic scale.

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Union Station, Toronto (ca)
Front Street Moat, former kiss 'n ride

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history

2007 - The concept for a reactive light and sound installation was originally conceived in 2007, in the context of a competition for a public artwork at La Défense, Paris.
2023 - The reworked concept has been selected for the Walks and Garden Trust Commemoration competition for a public artwork at Union Station, Toronto.
2016 - the delay of the Union Station revitalisation project put holds on the project
2018 - the project is recontracted, refinanced and scheduled for the final stage of Unino Station
2023 - after the Corona pandemic the project finally is back on its completion
2025 - the installment is foreseen in october 2025