In a break with longstanding tradition, the Adelaide City Council has decided to do something innovative and interesting to the visual environment in the city centre by commissioning a (seemingly permanent) high tech light installation for the middle of the CBD.

Mercifully the council abandoned an earlier plan to create a Times Square-style advertising nightmare on the site, although probably because of funding issues rather than any kind of realisation that it’s a bad idea to actually set out to create a Blade Runner-esque dystopian nightmare world.

The real installation is a bit smaller than the one pictured. Apparently there is a possibility that it will include some form of interactivity in the future via touch screens, although plans to implement such a feature have been put on hold for now. More pictures and information: here, here and here.