RailCity Zug – always seen in the right light.

Light art
As daylight starts to fade, the light installation by American artist James Turrell transforms the imposing building into an ethereal glowing mass. The artwork comprises just three colours – red, blue and green – as well as the different nuances that result from their fluid movement. This intense mood lighting encourages visitors to open their eyes to what's around them and catches the attention of onlookers and passers-by. This process is accompanied by natural changes in daylight from dawn to dusk, creating a place that no longer remains static but which reveals intense, ever-changing scenarios. And, at the end of the day, as the throngs of commuters finally disappear, the station concourse transforms into a silent illuminated room whose colourful presence radiates out into the town's darkened streets. The various colours are produced by individually controlled red, green and blue filtered fluorescent tubes. They are positioned in such a way as to illuminate the suspended blinds of the outer facade, the sandblasted, glazed parapets on the upper floors, the blinds of the inner facade and the glass roof. The light art at Zug station can be admired daily from dawn through until 11 p.m. During the colder months, when temperatures fall below freezing, the effects of light art can be somewhat restricted.

Brief biography of James Turrell

Born in 1943, James Turrell lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona, and is considered one of the world's most significant contemporary artists.

He has been pursuing his most ambitious project, the Roden Crater, since 1974. Turrell has designed a series of underground chambers and observation platforms in a volcanic crater in Arizona, allowing visitors to view celestial phenomena by day and night

Since 1995, he has become increasingly involved in permanent light installations for architectural projects, both for internal spaces (e.g. the Münchner Rück office building in Munich) and outside areas (e.g. the headquarters of Verbundnetz Gas AG in Leipzig).

One of Turrell's first-ever permanent public light installations was realized in Zug in 2003