Mark Major, one of the world's top lighting designers, has said that he feels like we are going through a lighting "revolution" at the moment.
As we try to become more inventive and impressive with our lighting solutions - and yet consume less energy - the technology implicated in the process has had to advance at a very fast rate in order to keep up with increasingly challenging market demands.
Illustrating the magnitude of this revolution, Mr Major - one of two partners heading up the lighting company Speirs & Major - told the BBC: "Changing technology makes me feel very clearly that this is as much of a revolution going on now as perhaps when gas went out and electric lighting came in."
Describing his work on London's iconic St Paul's Cathedral, he explained how one of the main challenges was that the lighting solution his firm devised needed to be a fitting substitute for what candlelight would have originally looked like, as the building was never designed to be seen under the harsh glare of electric lights.
This goes to show the adaptability of lighting nowadays and how, done cleverly, it can completely transform how a building is interpreted or perceived.
In terms of outdoor lighting, the expert talks about how the technology can be used to make an atmosphere "pleasant and interesting", bringing out "the colour and texture of the landscape" - whether urban or rural.
The flexibility of many of these new technologies makes it that much easier for property owners to make new lighting solutions work for them. They do not emit waste heat energy and so the lights can be set close to other materials and they can also change colours - opening up endless possibilities for inventive designs - as well as emit a better quality of light.
