At night, the uplights catch the underside of the transoms, giving off a lively, metallic quality at close quarters. From further away, the effect of the uplights diminishes to nothing, while the fiber optic point sources, invisible from nearby, become dominant. When viewed from long distances, haze adds a further cinematic twinkle, while the top of the building is capped by a corona that reads as a band of light in the night sky. These are expensive gestures, both to build and to maintain. But then, the building contains Mr. Li's office, and he ranks twentieth on Forbes Magazine's list of the World's Richest People.
Money demands to be celebrated and it is done here in a graceful manner.
The effects of solid and void, grid and skin change constantly, from day to night, with distance and with the weather. This is an unexpectedly engaging box, appropriate to the complex individual who initiated it.