International News

LONDON — Architainment supplied over 1,300 Philips SSL iColor Cove MX Powercore LED fixtures for an installation in the refurbished atrium of Tower 42, London’ s tallest building. Paul Croft Studios, in conjunction with Architects Design Partnership (ADP), refreshed the look of the main entrance and reception area with a new lighting scheme created by Light Bureau.

JOHANNESBURG — Disney Theatrical’s musical, Beauty and the Beast, recently opened at the Artscape Opera House in Cape Town from the Montecasino Teatro Theatre in Fourways, Johannesburg, where it was seen by more than 160,000. The lighting rig there included 42 Robe ColorWash and ColorSpot 700E AT moving lights.

MELBOURNE, Australia — Silk Road, a bar and restaurant built within a heritage-listed building, is operated and designed by Nick Zampelis and co-designed by architects Woods Bagot to inspire the ambience of a bygone era, but the lighting is strictly 21st century, with 77 LED fixtures from Anolis.

SANT'OMERO, Italy — Proel has acquired the Sagitter brand of professional lighting products and its manufacturing plant from Lampo Lighting Designers. On hand for the announcement were, from left, Dario Pezzini, Lampo's owner, Fabrizio Sorbi, chairman of the Proel Group) Roberto Meggiolaro, Proel Lighting product manager and Guido Beladelli, owner of Lampo.

KUURNE, Belgium —Barco has introduced transformable LEDs, which allow designers to use its LED technology in freeform shapes. The company introduced its new concept to over 200 European and Asian customers attending Barco’s 10th annual Rental Partner Meeting. The product will be introduced to U.S. customers at Barco’s North American rental partner meeting, set for March 9 to 12.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakian LD Martin Kubánka specified Robe moving lights for the musical The Producers, which is being staged at the Istropolis Congress Hall in Bratislava.

KENT, U.K.—Italian lighting manufacturer Clay Paky has donated intelligent lighting fixtures to Rose Bruford College in Kent to support their Honors Lighting Design program for undergrad students. The fixtures—four 1200 Stage Zoom and six Golden Scan units—will be added to the program’s teaching and production stock of generic and automated luminaires.

GLASGOW, U.K. — Glasgow City Chambers became a 75-meter-by-25-meter projection surface for Burns Illuminated, a tribute to the 250th  anniversary of the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns.

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — Since it opened in 1996, Lush has been a popular Irish dance destination. The 2,000-capacity club, part of the Kelly’s entertainment complex, which includes a hotel, restaurants, bars and holiday chalets, raised its roof and invested $2.15 million in new technology, including a variety of gear from PR Lighting.

LONDON — For the seventh consecutive year, XL Video supplied screens, projection, an HD PPU and control for the 2009 BRIT Awards which were presented by comedians Mathew Horne and James Corden and Kylie Minogue.

LONDON —Lighting Technology Projects (LTP) specified and supplied 48 custom designed and manufactured trusses to facilitate the house lighting in The Atrium at Westfield London, a new £1.7 billion shopping destination.