The Light Tunnel at Detroit Metro Airport McNamara Terminal

This is just a few minutes of the Light Tunnel, a memorable music & light installation connecting Concourse A with Concourse B/C at the McNamara Terminal at the Detroit Metro Airport. It's become my favorite part of connecting through that airport.

There's a great (somewhat technical) article about the installation at http://www.jimonlight.com/2008/11/18/the-mcnamara-tunnel-detroit-airport/ . Some often-overlooked facts about this awesome connecting tunnel:

This installation, one of the first large scale uses of color changing LED lighting in the United States, was produced by Mills James Productions with glasswork by Foxfire Glass Works of Pontiac, Michigan and music by composer Victor Alexeeff. The music & light piece in its entirety is 27 minutes long, after which it repeats. The display has won multiple lighting design awards including the prestigious Guth Award of Merit.

For passengers who are prone to medical conditions such as seizures, there are buttons at each end of the tunnel that will suspend the light show for five minutes so the affected passenger can pass through the tunnel.

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• Detroit
• DTW
• McNamara Terminal
• Detroit Metro Airport
• Detroit Airport
• Alexeeff
• Foxfire Glass Works
• Foxfire
• Mills James Productions
• Mills James
• Guth Award

[Pluna111]

Thanks for posting this. If you'd like to get in touch with Victor Alexeeff - he's on Facebook.. just type in his name :)