TOWERING DESIGNS

The 10 winning designs from a contest for lighting up Tokyo Skytree, part of commemorations for the tower’s 10-year anniversary, are put into service for the first time on the night of Oct. 21 in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward. Entries for the contest were solicited in May, when the tower marked its first decade of looming over Tokyo, under the theme of “Everyone’s Skytree,” and 761 people submitted proposals. The design on the far left, submitted by Ayaka Kamakura, a 29-year-old company employee from Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, was awarded the top prize for symbolizing “a large tree that will always watch over us.” The tower will be lit up nightly in some of the 10 patterns from 5:15 p.m. to midnight through Nov. 9. (Oct. 23)

The Yomiuri Shimbun