Building requirements to be opened to the public space of the city has an impact on their architecture. The article brings a perspective on night image of tensile facades in contemporary architecture. Resulting insights have been presented in architectural context, constructional design of facade membrane structure and illumination. The contribution highlights a need to solve night image of facade design and thereby design of lighting equipment. Illustrative examples are based on completed works which documented various cases of night image of facades. The paper brings three basic groups of lighting design application. Nowadays, it is an essential condition of quality in architecture to design installation and programming of night lighting design for tensile constructions (facades).