Nendo designs polyhedral Christmas tree with flickering star-shaped cutouts

Japanese design studio Nendo has created a gold-coloured Christmas tree for the Tokyo Midtown shopping centre in Roppongi, Tokyo, with kinetic cutouts designed to resemble "sparkling lights".
The 7.5-metre high tree, which sits in the middle of the shopping centre, has a polyhedral surface made from flat metal panels that have been bolted together to form a pyramid.
Behind the panels, which have fluttering star-shaped cutouts, sit 416 compact fans. These were programmed to move the pieces in patterns up, down and across the tree.
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