Architecture Zombie: Brighton's Burned-Down West Pier Rises From the Dead...With Lasers!

Lighting designers at Creatmosphere bring a skeletal building back to life with a century-old technique.

Brighton, England's 1,115-foot-long West Pier has had a tough run lately. Built in 1866, it closed in 1975 and was burned to a crisp by a series of fires in 2003 (arson, say the experts). Plans to rebuild it have been batted around for years, but they've always been too expensive. The most ambitious of which includes a 600-foot-tall observation tower called the i360, designed by Marks...