COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Harman’s Martin Professional, Kollision and Transform Architects refurbished the exterior of the Confederation of Danish Industry building here. The structure now features a façade with an ever-changing LED media surface.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – dbn has transformed a former Methodist meeting hall into Albert Hall with the installation of an elaborate lighting system. The century-old building will now host bands, comedy and cabaret shows, club nights, parties and corporate events.
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SOCHI, Russia — Following its involvement in support the needs of the Summer Olympics, Riedel Communications is providing a large-scale communications network infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Games.
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BERGAMO, Italy — Clay Paky, which is supporting its line of B-EYE fixtures with a website dedicated to the line, www.b-eye.it, also received and relayed first-hand accounts of industry professionals who have put the new fixtures to use. Disributors including Ambersphere Solutions in the U.K., A.C.T Lighting in the U.S. and Lightpower GmbH in Germany reported usage trends.
Read More »STRATFORD-upon-AVON – For the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) recent run of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the RSC’s main Royal Shakespeare Theatre here, set designer Stephen Brimson Lewis and LD Tim Mitchell used Chroma-Q battens to light thousands of meters of fine metal chain. The battens were positioned directly above the chains in a custom containment to shield the units from the audience.
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LONDON — Arriving amid nasty weather and marooned without his luggage, LD Eric Wade nevertheless managed to generate positive reviews for the look of the January makeup shows at London’s O2 Arena for Maroon 5. (The band’s tour had to shuffle performance dates to meet frontman Adam Levine’s commitments to the U.S. version of The Voice.) Wade included Clay Paky fixtures in the rig.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil – Ivo Moura, owner of the Brazilian rental lighting company Prisma Eventos, used fixtures from Luci Della Ribalta (LDR) sourced through its distributor Gobos Do Brazil to light Salão Duas Rodas, the largest motorcycle show in South America. Included in the rig: LDR’s 200W Alba LED Zoom Profile, which is available in the U.S. from CantoUSA.
Read More »LONDON – LD Andy Hurst took the ‘less is more’ approach to light the first tour of 2012 UK X-Factor winner, James Arthur, who is backed by a six-piece band. Hurst relied on a gear package provided by HSL for a simple and scalable two-truss setup. On the back truss are a mix of eight Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots plus Martin MAC Auras. The front truss features another six VL3000 Spots, six MAC Auras and seven ETC Source Fours. The rig also includes six 4-lite Moles on the frond cord of the front truss and also 17 Robe LEDBeam 100s on the stage floor.
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SOUTHSEA, Portsmouth, U.K. – For venerable Kings Theatre here, technical manager Nick Benjamin noted that the house followspots had failed to keep up with the intensity levels made possible by the theatre’s updated lighting rig. The theatre found Robert Juliat’s Victor followspot model to be the best fit with the venue’s needs. Pictured here from left are Nick Benjamin, and Sam Crook, London Light Technical Director, with one of the newly purchased Robert Juliat Victor followspots.
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LONDON – LD Nick Gray decided to also take a different approach in lighting the London Collections Men (LCM) main showspace by using 34 of Panalux’s Flobank units along the runway.
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