The architects for the interior of the W Hotel San Francisco, STANLEY SAITOWITZ │ NATOMA ARCHITECTS INC, designed the modern lobby with a San Francisco theme. They used patterned perforated ceiling panels to represent the fog of The City, made the space dark as night and needed a sculptural piece to represent San Francisco at night. Using photographs as our inspiration, we sculpted this piece of Model Art with both precision and artistic license. The topography was machined with a 2.5x vertical exaggeration to emphasize the changes in grade. We installed 2,000 LEDs in 4 colors on 4 circuits so that we could set the intensity of each circuit in place. A little fun was added by using red LEDs to represent points of interest in San Francisco and a single purple LED to designate the W Hotel.