A lighting mast in a small park in Tallinn Old Town, first switched on in 1934, was once the tallest in the city. Now it is heritage street lighting again, brought back to working life. We kept the landmark's scale and silhouette and updated the technology inside.
The mast now rejoins Tallinn’s public lighting network, close to how it first looked. Where the original burned 6,000 W, the restored mast now runs a custom LED system drawing just 400 W. That is the heart of this heritage lighting restoration: far less energy, the same presence after dark. The saving is real, but the point was continuity, not only efficiency. The relighting made news as Tallinn’s tallest street-lighting mast came back on.
Restoring the heritage street lighting meant rebuilding the head with custom aluminium components and durable PMMA spheres. The PMMA diffuses the LED evenly and stands up to weather far better than the original glass. From the ground it reads as the 1934 original, and up close it performs like a modern light.
A heritage lighting restoration like this is repeatable. Wherever a landmark light needs to work like new without losing its history, we can do it again. The design and the making stay with un-like. See more of our outdoor installations.
