2016-02-17
Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaNTM LED technology, announced that its LED lamps have been installed at a new, high-end boxing facility, Boxing Plus Wellness Center, in Taipei, Taiwan. The interior design supports the goal of Boxing Plus to be a comfortable space that suits both male and female guests of all ages who wish to learn and enjoy boxing. Through interior and lighting design elements, Boxing Plus stands out from other fitness centers; it’s an elegant, clean and comfortable space where guests of any age can learn and enjoy boxing.
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2016-02-16
Box Park is a hyper modern urban lifestyle complex in Dubai, which combines special shopping and entertainment venues with unusual restaurant concepts from around the world over a total length of 1.2 kilometers. In order to create a unique shopping and leisure experience for the residents and visitors of Dubai, the architects and designers divided the development in 10 thematic zones reflecting iconic locations around the world, such as Broadway, Times Square, Harrods or Moulin Rouge.
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2016-02-15
Around 25,000 LED white roses are scattered and displayed around Light Rose Garden HK. Each rose offers its blossoming love to glow at 6 pm every night.
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2016-02-15
Operating as the sole distributor of Nissan cars and genuine Nissan parts in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, Arabian Automobiles Company (AAC) is part of the AW Rostamani business conglomerate. Over the years, AAC has emerged to be among the top players in the automobile dealership sector with market leadership in certain pivotal segments of the vehicle market. AAC's network includes 11 new car showrooms, 10 service centers, 13 parts outlets across Dubai & Northern Emirates.
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2016-02-05
Visa, announced that Super Bowl 50 will serve as a beacon of payment innovation with new experiences activated throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. As a longstanding sponsor of the NFL, Visa will showcase the future of payment technology at Levi’s Stadium, the NFL Shop and at its corporate headquarters located in the heart of Super Bowl City. Fans, cardholders and Visa’s clients will have a front row seat in the transformative world of payments, using the latest mobile and in-app technologies that are redefining the world of commerce.
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2016-02-05
Osram Lighting Solutions has drawn up a cross-location LED lighting concept for Havi Logistics. The basis for this was pan-European energy audits previously carried out by Osram in the European distribution centers of Havi Logistics. Following lighting refurbishment, up to 80% in energy costs are now being saved thanks to efficient LED technology and intelligent light management in the cold storage centers.
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2016-02-04
The 1,000 square metres of new space for art, culture and artistic creativity has been built largely underground in Arlberg. The architecture of Jürgen Kitzmüller is very natural and uses a pared-down stylistic idiom. "The rooms only develop their full effect with the right light," explains the architect Jürgen Kitzmüller. With its flexible and modern equipment, the architecture of Europe's highest Contemporary Art & Concert Hall concentrates on the essentials. The wood-panelled concert auditorium has been designed so that the curved walls and cavities behind these produce outstanding acoustics.
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2016-02-03
Revolution Lighting Technologies, a leader in advanced LED lighting technology solutions, today announced the completion of an LED retrofit project with Lehman College, the Bronx-based senior college of the City University of New York. The work, facilitated by Revolution Lighting Technologies operating division Tri-State LED, involved the installation of Revolution Lighting Technologies T8 LED tubes to increase energy efficiency and decrease utilities costs across campus. The multi-phase program has installed LED tubes, which are 60% more efficient than fluorescent lighting, to achieve an average payback of only 2.5 years.
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2016-01-30
Jarman Square, previously known as Leisure World, is a new leisure park in Hemel Hempstead.
With the re vitalized complex welcoming a host of popular new restaurants and leisure facilities, the project team wanted to use lighting in an engaging way to enhance the visitor experience.
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2016-01-29
This Saturday, the non-profit arts organization, ILLUMINATE, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and world-renowned artist Leo Villareal will officially re-light The Bay Lights, an iconic LED lighting installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, using equipment developed by Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), the global leader in lighting. The artwork, which originally appeared in March 2013 as a two-year installation, will now permanently illuminate the San Francisco Bay’s night sky with 25,000 Philips connected light points and an advanced cloud-based connected lighting platform to remotely monitor and maintain the lighting system.
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2016-01-29
Power management company Eaton today announced that the biggest names in the National Hockey League (NHL®) and American Hockey League (AHL) will play their all-star events this weekend under its innovative and energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) digital lighting system.
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2016-01-28
Behind the scenes at the Emmy-nominated "Jimmy Kimmel Live", lighting designer Christian Hibbard is busy bringing the shows musical performances to life. With two outdoor stages that host the hottest musical acts from around the world, Hibbard is asked to create the ideal lighting environment that best personifies the varying musicality of each artist. Understanding these challenges, Hibbard needs lighting instruments with a number of quality capabilities, which he has found in the VL4000 BeamWash luminaire from Philips Vari-Lite.
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2016-01-27
The Middle Ring Expressway, located at Suzhou Hi-Tech Zone has transformed into the most brilliantly luminated municipal road in Suzhou city. With a total investment of RMB 22 billion, the roadway was equipped with around 2,000 sets of OSRAM OLUX™ LED Spot H with 4000K color temperature. In addition, around 10,000 sets of OSRAM XTRA Liner DC were used to achieve different lighting effects by changing the high powered LEDs. The seamless lighting effects are operated by e:cue control systems, including Butler S2, LCE 2 and RDM Isolater that control around 10,000 sets of OSRAM XTRA Liner LEDs, which produce identical colors simultaneously.
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2016-01-26
Kuehne + Nagel, one of the world’s leading global logistic providers has recently completed the construction of a build-to-suit centre in Singapore. The new 46,000sqm state-of-the-art facility, which will be one of its largest outside Europe, also has a cold storage zone to manage temperature-sensitive goods.
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2016-01-22
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, today announced the unveiling of a first-of-its-kind, large-scale lighting installation at a major university campus that leverages Power over Ethernet (PoE) as part of the recently opened Watt Family Innovation Center at Clemson University. As a founding innovation partner of the center, Philips implemented a PoE-based indoor lighting system combined with LED lighting to provide flexible work spaces that encourage collaboration between faculty and students, optimize space management in the facility, and improve energy efficiency. This new lighting solution will deliver up to 70 percent in energy savings compared to similar buildings using conventional lighting.
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2016-01-21
In the newly constructed Schmuttertal secondary school in Diedorf Germany, micro sun shielding louvres from the Osram subsidiary Siteco create natural lighting in the classroom buildings, auditorium and sports hall. The school benefits in several ways – in addition to energy savings, the daylight system also supports the school’s architectural and educational concept.
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2016-01-21
The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing has staged Aida with the lighting designer Vinicio Cheli and a whole group of Italian professionals known worldwide: stage designer Ezio Frigerio, director Francesco Micheli, costume designer Francia Squarciapino, and Sergio Metalli, who dealt with the video projections. Cheli was asked to design the lighting for Verdi's opera.
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2016-01-20
Originally established in 1871, First Baptist Orlando has grown into a congregation of over 16,000 members who worship in a sanctuary with approximately 5,500 seats. When the church recently underwent a renovation, lighting designer Anthony Rush was asked to identify the ideal lighting fixtures that could offer the weekly worship services and annual special productions alike the most versatile lighting rig possible. Working with the Orlando office of Stage Equipment and Lighting (SEAL), Rush looked at a number of fixtures which might have the functionality, dependability and versatility needed, and in the end, he decided upon VL4000 Spot and VL4000 BeamWash luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite.
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2016-01-18
Normally home to advertising for the world's biggest brands, for the first time one of the screens of this iconic landmark will feature digital art.
A trio of works, all by Miguel Chevalier express the fluid possibilities of art in the 21st-century. Like a giant kaleidoscope, Complex Meshes 2016, Original of the World 2016 and Pixels Wave 2016 brings a world of colours and shapes in motion, and takes us on an imaginary journey of optical illusion and play.
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2016-01-18
When Henley Business School celebrated its 70th birthday, event organiser Nikki Cooper wanted some touches of magic for the occasion, so after deciding with colleagues that special lighting could be the answer, they contacted alumnae Phil Ion, MD of UK-based LED manufacturer CORE Lighting … and asked if he could help.
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2016-01-15
Flight catering services company, LSG Sky Chefs, is reaping the benefits of food, workplace safety, productivity and energy efficiency by switching to LED lighting provided by Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting.
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2016-01-15
Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology, announced that its LED lamps have been installed at the new Crosswater UK showroom, one of the largest bathroom showrooms in Europe. Investing in a new headquarters with a beautifully-appointed showroom gallery in Dartford, Kent, Crosswater wanted lighting to enhance a memorable experience for visitors as they moved through the showroom to discover innovative bathroom designs and superior quality products available for today’s home design.
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2016-01-15
Grant Kwiecinski, also known as GRiZ, first became popular in 2011 with the release of his debut album, End Of The World Party. His fourth studio album, Say It Loud, landed at the top of iTunes Electronic charts and has been called brilliant by Billboard. Leading up to Christmas, the Detroit native returns to his hometown and participates in a series of fundraisers with proceeds benefiting local non-profits. The twelve-day fundraiser leads up to a highly anticipated, sold out holiday celebration concert, GRiZMAS II. LMG Touring provided lighting and LED support.
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2016-01-07
The culmination of a contest organised by ÅF Lighting and a planning process of 1½ year took place one dark winter evening on November 26th 2015 at Stockholm Royal Seaport in Sweden.
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2016-01-06
Offering low power drain, less heat emission and higher portability, LED lighting technology is taking over the filming industry, allowing for new possibilities in production techniques and better viewer experiences. As the highest grossing sci-fi/horror Kickstarter project of their time,Harbinger Down, which hit Netflix in December 2015, delivers unbelievable effects by utilizing a Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K and Cree LED lighting technology, creating a dramatic and realistic visual experience.
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2016-01-06
Light Walk’ is a project designed for the UNESCO 2015 International Year of Light Festival. Located in the passages leading into the Carl Zeiss eG, it is an interactive light installation which aims to encourage the use of multiple passages by displaying the data of the people’s presence from each passage around the courtyard into the main passage, containing the visualization. By placing sensors in each of the walkways, the movement of the user is tracked and then shown as a ‘data ghost’ of light through a 3D light matrix.
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2016-01-05
CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) – LED Steplights The clean and graceful designs of the LED Steplight collection blend harmoniously with interior and exterior environments while providing energy-efficient illumination. Featuring nine distinct profiles in three finishes, LED Steplights offer style and versatility along with safe illumination to well-traveled outside areas – extending the evening well into nightfall.
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2015-12-31
A state-of-the-art, high-resolution LED video wall manufactured and installed by S|N|A was recently unveiled at 350 Mission Street in San Francisco as part of a digital art show organized by Kilroy Realty Corporation.
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2015-12-30
THE CHALLENGE
In the heart of Taipei and cordoned off from all visitors, stood an abandoned factory that a century ago was a wine-producing facility. Rediscovered in 1997, the Huashan 1914 Creative Park was one of the least known and most well-preserved structures in Taiwan. Half a century later, this space has been partially restored and is home to community arts events and temporary pop-up shops.
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2015-12-30
With over 300 exhibitors from different lighting companies across the world, Light Middle East is the regional premier event which was held in Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre on 6-8 October 2015. The trade fair offered a platform for the lighting professionals, including manufacturer, architects, engineers and designers, to showcase their innovative lighting solutions, to explore business opportunities and to gain inspiration for their future projects and designs.
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