Watch as this large crystal-like installation turns Tokyo’s landscape into kaleidoscopic art - Yanko Design

Looking about like a ripple in time and space, Vincent Leroy's Illusion Lens bends light in a manner that makes you lot double-take. The illusory installation, which has found its way on the terrace of a building in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills, is a geodesic structure, comprising multiple fresnel lenses (flat lenses with multiple spherical rings).

Sitting at the very center of a helipad on Mori Tower, in one of Tokyo's nigh affluent districts, the Illusion Lens bends looks like a literal gem, equally it bends low-cal in means that make everything around information technology appear as fragments within it, combining the cityscape as well as the heaven above. 'Far from the noise and action of the Japanese megapole it is an incredible place for contemplation. information technology's the all-time place to be close the clouds of Tokyo', says Vincent. It rotates ever so gently throughout the mean solar day, refracting, reflecting, and remixing, like a massive kaleidoscope.

The fresnel lenses (originally designed to aid lighthouse beams propagate further) are joined together without any seams to form a seamless buckyball that makes the installation look like a cut, clear precious stone. In the day, information technology becomes a place of contemplation and reflection, every bit clouds, skies, and buildings merge together in a symphony of polygons, and at night, the artpiece comes alive with a grand reflections of the city'due south lights.

Designer: Vincent Leroy