About 4 hundred millions of fluorescent lights, 75,000 tons by weight are thrown away each year in Japan. 85% of them are thrown into the sea for reclamation of the waterfront even if it contains gaseous mercury.

Fluorescent lights are very difficult to be recycled.
Because it contains various materials including toxic, it’s so difficult to bring out fine and pure materials from them. The fluoless installion is intended to draw attention to this problem

Omotesando Hills was built in 2005, in a series of Tokyo urban developments by Mori Building. It occupies a two hundred and fifty meter stretch of Omotesando, a famous shopping and (previously) residential road in Aoyama sometimes termed Tokyo's Champs-Élysées. It was designed by Tadao Ando, and contains over 130 shops and 38 apartments