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A Snake Lantern Landmark for Singapore’s Chinatown


How a Year of the Snake installation brought zodiac storytelling into a live city streetscape for Lunar New Year 2025.


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or the 2025 Lunar New Year season, a snake-themed lantern installation became part of the wider Chinatown street


celebration. The display ran from 8 January to 27 February 2025. Star Factory Lantern refined the zodiac form for production, made its steel frame and lighting, completed the surface finishing and colour adjustment, and prepared the display in sections for transport. A coiling snake rises beneath a tree of golden


fruit, surrounded by lotus forms and lanterns. Against the busy street, the large silhouette catches


attention from across the road, while the painted scales, leaves and flowers reward a closer look from pedestrians gathering beside the display.


From workshop craft to the Chinatown streetscape For lantern displays of this scale, individual forms are checked under workshop lighting and prepared for transport. On site, the sections are assembled into a streetscape where the snake, prosperity tree and surrounding lanterns read as one scene.


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than 800 years, and its traditional making craft was recognised as provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2007. A shaped frame supports a large silhouette; hand-built contours and careful  and expression. Internal lighting adds colour and depth after dark.


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