Lighting the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, a modern iconic structure spanning San Diego Bay since 1969, will take a step closer to reality Tuesday if the San Diego Unified Port board approves $75,000 in startup financing.
The plan by British artist Peter Fink, approved in 2008, could cost up to $8 million. But the port staff recommends hiring fund-raising consultants to solicit donations from major philanthropists as well as average citizens. Fink of FoRM Associates won the competition in collaboration with Speirs and Major Associates and Buro Happold.
The hope is to have the project completed in time for the 2015 centennial of Balboa Park’s Panama-California Exposition.
Fink proposes to install interactive lighting that changes with the intensity of traffic on the bridge and different colored lighting of the bridge pillars that change with the days of the week, the seasons or special events.
The port expects to raise up to $750,000 privately for the engineering, environmental and technical studies phase. The next phase would cover design development and the final phase, installation.
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