In a small park in Tallinn Old Town stands a lighting mast first switched on in 1934, once the tallest in the city. 1934 is heritage street lighting we 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 6000W, the restored mast now runs a custom LED system drawing just 400W. 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 current luminaire.
Heritage street lighting like this is repeatable. Wherever a landmark light needs to work like new without losing its history, we can do it again. See more of our outdoor installations.
