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lighting elements Tea House/ StarterSouth Korea Plaza, Landscape Architecture by Pinnacle Design Company Right The 3.4 meter tall gold abstract sculpture of a horse was designed by Rotraut Uecker. The horse ���floats��� on a raised pool of water. Fire elements and fiber optic lighting add dramatic effects. LED fiber-optics in one-meter lengths (12-watts) show off two pools and the steps to the raised patio landscaping and walkways. Bottom The lighting tubes are equipped with white and RGB colored LED lamps, allowing the lighting controls to cycle through the colors of the rainbow. This was the look of the platform before the horse sculpture installation. The starter house garden at Whistling Rock Country Club shines bright in the South Korean sky as a great example of how to combine function with sculpture. The landscape architects, Pinnacle Design Co. of Palm Desert, Calif., were challenged by the chairman of the Taekwang Group to provide a functional outdoor space adjacent to a starter teahouse, but also to create a ���night and day��� display space for the large art piece he���d purchased. The award-winning clubhouse and golf course, which opened in the fall of 2011, have become somewhat of a showcase for his collection. The art piece is a 3.4 meter tall gold abstract sculpture of a horse designed by Rotraut Uecker. Standing tall above an organically-arranged plaza space, the horse ���floats��� on a raised pool of water, drawing the attention of golfers as they begin their day on the course. The horse sits off-center in the space to open up the best views of the course. The water feature that supports the sculpture is itself an artistic element. The pools of water (two of them in the space) are held together by 7mm thick Corten (A606-4/A588) steel sheets welded together to make striking abstract shapes. The steel walls are enveloped by thick grey basalt walls that, to the eye, move up and down and in and out as they encircle the steel on all sides. This design aspect is repeated in all planter walls in the plaza. The surfaces are hard and grey, but the movements they make in the mind���s eye are organic and playful. This was the effect Pinnacle Design wanted to create ��� a space that would evoke a transition from the strong rectilinear lines of the clubhouse to the organic, naturalistic lines of the golf course. 64 Landscape Architect and Specifier News