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Reset the city’s grey light.

Taikoo Place makes a dense urban landscape feel generous at night.
Taikoo Place, Hong KongA lit route through the canopy, with layers of foliage beyond.Photo: Jonathan Leijonhufvud / Speirs Major Light Architecture

At Taikoo Place, Speirs Major replaced the grey layer of light spilling in from neighbouring plots with a darker ‘night light’, which let it introduce contrast, something the studio calls unusual in Hong Kong.

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The studio mapped the journeys, tasks and viewpoints of the people who would use the site before designing a single fitting, over what it describes as a nearly ten-year process1.

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  1. Speirs MajorSpeirs Major — Taikoo PlaceUndated page · checked 2026-09-28
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This story is from the October 2026 Toronto issue of Dazzle Digest, a free monthly magazine about lighting and life after dark.

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