Are you bored with the lampposts along the roads or around the parks?… Depending at the post design, some are unique and some are just plain… well, lamppost was used to light up the streets since many decades ago…

It all started as the boring log pole with lantern hang on top of it, and that concept of a pole with lamp hang on top of the pole survived until today. But that might change very soon. Recently a group of people including city planners and architects put a challenge to Dutch electronics company Philips to design a new concept for outdoor lighting system… all because they feels that the streets are cluttered. They want to get rid with the lamppost.

So Phillips decided it is best to remove the vertical streetlight poles and turn the street as FreeStreet by replacing it with horizontal lighting system. They did it by hanging clusters of horizontally-strung cables with leds lights built into it. What makes this design interesting is the lighting system looks invisible during the day. With that design they won the 2011 Dutch Design Award… and it will be available for use in Europe this month… 😀