Located on the corner of Dixon Street and Little Hay Street in Sydney’s Chinatown, “Heaven” was first installed in 1997. Commissioned by the City of Sydney, the piece was designed by artist Peter McGregor, working with urban designer and architect Ken Maher, and architect and Feng Shui specialist Howard Choy.
The artwork underwent a restoration in 2017 and is still in operation today. The artwork lights up from 6pm to midnight every night. The piece’s larger fibre optic strands change colour every hour, while the smaller strands change every 10 minutes, rotating through a cycle of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. The colour changing sequence contains a code, which incredibly, tells the time if cracked.
