Illuminated River: lighting up London’s bridges with skill and charm

A £31m plan to transform the Thames at night with ever-changing lighting of 14 of its bridges will bring out the beauty of these quirky London landmarksLight, rather obviously, is the thing that allows us to see shapes and colours. Which makes it somewhat fundamental to architecture: there wouldn’t be much point, without it, to architects troubling themselves with form and decoration. It also varies in tone, intensity, direction, contrast and colour, which means that the solid stuff