The project team of architect Peter Davidson from Lab architecture, engineer Marc Mimram, and artist Thomas Rentmeister has developed the project starspears for the Friedrich Bridge.

Steel spears of various heights, widths, and alignment will be fastened to the pavement of the footbridge that leads to the Alte Nationalgalerie on Museum Island. They will have a triangular outline and will be assembled from steel frames. A tube will run along the inside. Individual light sources are inserted into the bottom of the spears. The spears on the outer sides of the bridge - that is, toward the shore - will pierce the bridge's surface, illuminating the Spree.

Once erected, the steel spears will be coated with lead. The background to this procedure is the German New Year's tradition of telling fortunes by the shapes made by molten lead dropped into cold water. The entire design is based on this traditional act of renewal, which assists in predicting the future of the New Year. The bridge's process of renewal will be captured in the act of coating with lead.

At the same time, the spears will point to the sky and fixate the stars. A poetic and mythological work, starspears takes up various associations, such as the belief that the first human attempts at written characters were most likely the imaginary drawing of figures in the sky.