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Mosaic in Granite and Gables

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The new Granite and Gables office and residential tower complex in Dallas includes a striking multi-storey lighting feature designed by Scott Oldner Lighting Design.

Granite & Gables in Dallas, TX Photo © Jeff Mabray, Edwin Jones Company

The installation uses Insight Lighting‘s Tre’o fixtures focused inward to bounce their colour off the structure’s frosted exterior. Each 1 foot segment of the Tre’o fixture is individually controlled by an ETC Unison Mosaic MSC20 lighting playback controller. The high capacity MSC20 provides the project with the capability for multiple custom programs to run on an automatic schedule but with a direct override option for building staff. The Dallas-based Edwin Jones Company integrated ETC’s DMX distribution system with the Insight Lighting fixtures and implemented all the programming within ETC’s Unison Mosaic Designer software. Jeff Mabray of Edwin Jones was delighted with the project, commenting, “The Mosaic controller was a perfect solution for this 20-universe installation and a pleasure to program.”

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Pharos powers up in the Arctic Circle

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Scandinavians really appreciate light and lighting, particularly as they spend much of the winter months in dusk and darkness. Nowhere more so than in Lapland and in the town of Kemijärvi, situated just inside the Arctic Circle.

Kemijärvi Power Plant, Finland © Ilkka Volanen

Lighting Designer Ilkka Volanen has created a colourful new look for a local power station. Stockholm Lighting Company provided and installed a Pharos LPC 1 controlling Philips Color Kinetics ColorReach fixtures. The programming is based in part around astronomical triggers, even though on some days of the year the sun may never rise or set! The LPC correctly calculates this, even in these extreme latitudes.

Nature adding its own winter diffuser. Photo © Ilkka Volanen

Ilkka Volanen has also used Pharos controllers on some striking power line projects.   Near Tampere, the Lempäälä pylon is 64m high with a span of 19m, carrying 400kV. The Illusion project in Vaasa is a 52m high tower carrying 110kV.

Lempaala pylon, Finland © Ilkka Volanen

Vassa pylon, Finland © Ilkka Volanen

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Stockholm TV tower alight with Pharos

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Kaknäs Tower, Stockholm

Dominating the skyline in Stockholm, the Kaknäs tower is getting a new look at night. Swedish national broadcaster Teracom has commissioned Stockholm Lighting Company and designer Stefan Sjölund to install temporary lighting on one side of the 170 metre broadcast tower. This is to allow both owner and public to evaluate and comment on a possible future lighting installation for this landmark site.

This test uses Philips Color Kinetics fixtures: 4 ColorReach at the tower base, 8 ColorBlast to light the upper section, and 200 iColor Flex LMX on the balcony, all controlled by a Pharos LPC 1.

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Pharos can Can-Can

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

The two Pharos LPC 2s and the Pharos AVC installed at the Mitchell Domes, Milwaukee, are continuing to be used for new and exciting light and sound shows, designed by Marty Peck of Creative Lighting Design and Engineering.  Here’s Marty’s light choreography to the music of the Galop from Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld.

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Window dressing on Boston’s theatre row

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The New Paramount Center at Emerson College included the renovation of the main theatre and the addition of new facilities such as a new film screening room, dormitory and black-box theatre.  The windows to the black-box are part of the old building facade and now incorporate approximately 4700 Philips Color Kinetics LED nodes controlled by a Pharos LPC 20.

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Pharos underground

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Stockholm Lighting Company has installed an LPC 60 in the car park of the new Liljeholmens shopping mall in Stockholm, Sweden.

Liljeholmens Car Park Level 1

The Pharos Designer software showed its muscle while the giant show file was created to accommodate over 9000 Philips Color Kinetics iColor Flex SLX nodes in an uneven layout on two floors. 

Shoppers are treated to a dynamic lighting display guiding them towards the entrances to the mall.

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Pharos rocks… the Phish Festival

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

A recent venture by Architen Lighting was to design, manufacture and install an LED mesh to envelope a blimp which would hover over the crowd at California’s Phish Festival last year. They worked alongside Hector Serrano Studios to bring to life the unusual scheme which Hector had envisioned.

Borealis at Phish Festival 2009

The four metre floating structure, called the Borealis but nicknamed the Burple by onlookers, consisted of a helium filled balloon covered with a net of LEDs to form a moving, floating video screen. The giant bubble was flown above the crowds with pre-programmed sequences flashing across its surface in a multitude of patterns to provide maximum impact.

Architen Lighting’s Flex Mesh LED-4 system gave Hector a simple and effective method of creating a full colour display. Three DMX universes’ of control were required from Pharos – provided by a networked LPC 1 and LPC 2. The front-end user interface was created using a custom web page served by an LPC and viewed on an iPhone.

Christopher Rowell, project manager and programmer for Architen Lighting said, “It was the Pharos controllers which provided the real power, allowing us to take the clients dream and turn it into reality, by allowing us to program stunning effects to amaze the audience”.

As the visual impact of the structure depended largely on its ability to fly, the weight of the system was important to the success of the scheme. The extremely light weight components are joined with a single power and data cable which dramatically reduces the weight in comparison to other systems.

Christopher continues, “Nothing quite like the Borealis has ever been created before and we’re thrilled with the results. Hours of manufacturing and development were carried out in the weeks running up to the event as all components were assembled at our Chepstow factory. Despite the hard work, we were thrilled by the results – nothing could quite have prepared us for the overall effect!”

Onlookers at the Phish Festival could not help being amazed, branding it as ‘awesome’ and ‘the next level of concert art’. Bookings for 2010 festivals have already begun!

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Pharos brings in 2010 on the London Eye

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

The permanent LED lighting on the London Eye and the Millennium Pier is controlled by two Pharos LPC 2s mounted onto the rim of the wheel and a third LPC 2 on the pier.  Since their installation in 2006 they have been an integral part of the Mayor of London’s New Year’s Eve lighting and fireworks display.  This year was no exception.

The LED lighting on the façade of County Hall, which is situated next to the London Eye on the south bank of the Thames, is also controlled by a Pharos LPC 1 and this year it was incorporated into the design for the first time.

The lighting display, designed by Durham Marenghi, commenced at 10pm on New Year’s Eve and became increasingly dynamic as midnight approached.  In addition to the LED lighting on the wheel, the London Eye was illuminated by 20 Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300s, 36 Alpha Beam 700s and 20 VL5 ARCs mounted on the pier, plus a Martin Mac 2000 Wash in each pod.  The movers were controlled by a Wholehog II, programmed by associate designer Paul Cook.  The LED lighting on the London Eye, the Millennium Pier and the façade of County Hall was programmed by Simon Hicks.

Timing is crucial for this event, but the LPC 2s on the Eye, the LPC 1 on the pier and the LPC 1 inside County Hall are completely isolated.  They’re also isolated from the Wholehog II controlling the movers.  However, the clock in each Pharos controller is so accurate that each controller can run independently and use real time triggers to start all the lighting cues on time.  This accuracy was relied upon more than usual this year when Durham asked for lighting pulses on the Eye every second during the final countdown, which was projected onto the side of the Shell Building.

London Eye New Year's Eve Countdown 2009/2010

Counting down to 2010 with the LPC's real time triggers (© Stage Electrics)

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Phenomenal fountain lighting in Columbia

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Ecoluz used six networked Pharos LPC 2s to control lighting across over 2km of trees and fountains in Medellin, Columbia.

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Pharos rocks… Trondheim

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Rockheim © Ian Fanning, LSCAB

Stockholm Lighting Company have recently completed another large installation of CK Flex controlled by a Pharos LPC X. Rockheim is a rock music museum in Trondheim, Norway. 1860sq metres of façade is covered with 13,767 Color Kinetics SLC Nodes controlled over KiNet by a Pharos LPC 90.

Rockheim © Ian Fanning, LSCAB

A Sarian GPS provides remote access, and an on-site PC allows for local access to the LPC X’s web interface for diagnostics and additional triggering. “It’s lots of fun to play with!” comments Stockholm Lighting Project Manager Ian Fanning.

Rockheim © Ian Fanning, LSCAB

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