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 <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The renovation of Vancouver’s landmark BC Place stadium created an exciting opportunity for an adaptable LED installation by C.M. Kling & Associates.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Martin Professional’s HQ in Aarhus, Denmark has been given a facelift from dynamic designers Kollision.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A collaboration between UNStudio, ag Licht, LightLife and Zumtobel has resulted in one of the biggest media façades in the world.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:40 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Zaha Hadid’s only project in mainland China to date is another extraordinary building lending itself to innovative lighting design by Beijing Light & View.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Simon Dove, Associate at Hoare Lea Lighting, describes the new lighting scheme at one of Christopher Wren’s architectural gems.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Having been responsible for their convention centre in Salt Lake City,  the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brought Auerbach Glasow French back on board for this follow up project.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design has created an exciting scheme using LED-lit ceiling fins to give the bland auditorium a facelift.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The lighting design for Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre was a collaborative effort between Henning Larsen Architects, Batteriid Arkitekter, Zumtobel and artist Olafur Eliasson.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:27 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[When Zaha Hadid contacted Rogier van der Heide to talk about lighting a bridge she was designing in Abu Dhabi, little did they know that it would be thirteen years later when it would finally come to fruition. The success of the complex process, that also included Arup Lighting, Martin Professional Middle East and others, is a testament to their collaborative skills and the importance of the lighting design discipline to a major architectural project.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A bold rethinking of one street in Rotterdam has helped radically change the city’s perception of a once ignored district.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Florence Lam, global lighting leader for Arup, gives an insight into the glittering world of bridge lighting and the design opportunities that arise from the use of LEDs.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The exterior lighting of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and also the Théâtre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts and is the latest stage of the lighting masterplan of the Quartier des spectacles.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Licht Kunst Licht’s first exclusively LED lighting scheme is encorporated into the Telekom Bridge’s architecture and helps create a corporate message.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT: International visitors arriving in New York the old-fashioned way have been treated to a very modern experience following a recent refurbishment to Pier 88 and 90.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[America’s oldest technological university, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is a shining beacon of innovation: it’s at the cutting edge of fields from biotechnology to lighting research. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[For residents and guests of the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates, ‘living the high life’ will take on both figurative and literal meaning. The mixed-use tower - featuring bespoke residences, corporate suites, and the world’s first Armani Hotel and Residences - is not only the world’s tallest building and man-made structure, it sets new world standards for luxury living.<br/>]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Sheltered from the Atlantic by the natural protection of the Rio de la Plata inlet, Montevideo has always been the main transport hub of Uruguay, handling nearly all of the country’s import and export needs. To reach it by air, visitors touch down at Carrasco International Airport, located about 11 miles east of the capital.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:15 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[In May this year, the Centre Pompidou in Paris opened its long awaited satellite gallery in the city of Metz. Positioned close to the German, Luxembourg and Belgian borders, the Centre Pompidou-Metz (CPM) is seen as an opportunity to bring French art and culture closer to an international audience, as well as create a high profile tourist destination in the host city.<br/>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Following the Expo’s central theme, ‘Better City, Better Life’, architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wanted the Danish Pavilion to provide visitors with a truly authentic urban experience.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:50 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Luminous ceilings provide spacious room impressions and can provide different types of lighting. Besides this, they are, however, also metaphors of the natural sky and a mirror of an aesthetic and architectural debate. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The ‘Seed Cathedral’, Britain’s presence at the World Expo. The pavilion, which won architects Heatherwick Studio this year’s RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the ‘Most outstanding work of international architecture by a RIBA member’, demonstrates the work of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew and their Millennium Seedbank. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The German Pavilion is intended as a physical representation of ‘the urban balance between volatility and stability’. With many German - and indeed European - cities seeing a shift away from the suburbanisation of the past with a return to city-centre living, planners have been forced to create spaces that balance the needs of both work and domestic life. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:05 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[George Sexton Associates’ scheme for the façade of the French Pavilion drew inspiration from the temporary nature of the Shanghai Expo. With its waterside location, the structure sits like a cruise ship in dock, floating aside the other pavilions, which have similarly arrived from locations around the world. It was a metaphor that in turn led to ideas about travel and luxury. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Designed by Mario Occhiuto Architetture with lighting design by Francesca Storaro, the Urban Best Practices Area (UBPA) is a thematic pavilion in which cities propose their solutions to modern urban issues. ]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Rob Honeywill, Director of Maurice Brill Lighting Design, explains the process of designing an integrated scheme for this urban space.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Tough installation restrictions and even tougher environmental conditions made creating a new design for the Alabaster Mosque in Salah Al Din Citadel a challenging proposition.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:04 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With the use of crystal chandeliers and LED cove lighting, Pfarré Lighting Design has added a ‘festive glamour’ to Uzbekistan’s impressive Palace of International Forums]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:24 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT Designed by Expedition Engineering, the slender bowstring bridge cuts a distinctive silhouette across the River Tees. A 230m-long concrete walkway is supported by a pair of asymmetric steel arches that appear to skip across the river like a pebble skimming water.<br/>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Temple Quay is a pedestrian and cycle bridge located in the centre of Bristol. The bridge consists of an organic steel form where the cladding performs structurally and is perforated where less material is required for strength. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[When Hurricane Katrina swept into the Gulf Coast of the Unites States in 2005, it wrought devastation on much of the region. Among the infrastructure destroyed that day was the Biloxi Bay Bridge, severing the connection between the close knit communities of Biloxi and Ocean Springs, Mississippi. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Situated on the longitude of 8° East, Klimahaus’s concept is based on a mix of science and entertainment representing selected climate zones along this longitude across the globe. With a length of 125 metres, and with its totally glazed facade, the building is a key landmark in the city of Bremerhaven. The façade lighting scheme, by pfarré lighting design, employs 1900 individually addressable, cold-white LEDs.<br/>]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Though there was once a time when a cinema-goer’s experience was heightened by the grand auditoria in which films were shown, the arrival of multi-screen megaplexes in recent decades has caused a significant shift in the way we now consume movies. Where the emphasis was once on glamourous theatre interiors, today most cinema design settles for a more functional, often generic, look.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT<br/><br/>Completed in time for the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix, Arup Lighting’s phenomenal LED gridshell enveloping the Yas Hotel is the largest LED project in the world. We spoke to Arup’s Brian Stacy about the dream that became reality in front of the world’s TV cameras.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The latest addition to the Shanghai skyline and China’s tallest tower, the SWFC has been given top billing with a scheme by Motoko Ishii Lighting Design.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[I.C.O.N. have created a lighting scheme for Toyo Ito Architects’ sea-inspired remastering of the Gran Via exhibition centre in Barcelona ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:05 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT<br/><br/>Abu Dhabi’s royal family may have made Manchester City the richest football club in the world, but there has been another project they have just completed much closer to home. Paul James visited Abu Dhabi to take a look.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:41 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Martin Lupton and Luke Smith-Wightman of BDP Lighting explain the art of lighting design in school environments. using their work at Westminster Academy as a case study, they emphasise the important role of daylight, the guidelines associated with it and the need to consider electric light as an holistic element of the architecture and overall visual environment.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:47 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT<br/><br/>Arup Lighting has created a spectacular façade to brighten up Liverpool's Active Learning Laboratory - by using colour changing LEDs from Siteco.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:33 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT<br/><br/>Maurice Brill Lighting Design has delivered an extraordinary scheme for this residential development to set it apart from commercial activity in the area.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[VIDEO CONTENT<br/><br/>Thanks to its sparkling façade, Kaohsiung’s Star Place has become one of the most outstanding landmarks in southern Taiwan. Jimmie Wing reports.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 07:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With the opening of W Hong Kong in the burgeoning West Kowloon district, luxury has finally caught up with 21st century attitude. Boasting the talents of two interior design firms and a lighting designer, the hotel offers guests a feel that is refined as well as being contemporary.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Leni Schwendinger has helped to transform a desolate area into a destination.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Arup has engineered a bubble structure that maximises daylighting and lends itself to dynamic LED lighting at night.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:05 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The eyes of the  World will be on the National Stadium when it hosts the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Games. Arup Lighting had to create a lighting scheme that worked just as well for the TV cameras as it did for the thousands of visitors.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Speirs and Major Associates has once again completed a scheme for a high profile airport terminal. This time the Foster and Partners designed Beijing international, the largest airport building in the world. one of the lighting design team, Claudia Clements, takes us through the scheme.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Digital Beijing Building, Beijing, China]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:05 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The innovative use of LEDs has created a technological marvel at the Digital Beijing Building.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Imperial Palace, Beijing, China]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:12 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Lighting from ERCO is a long-term investment in the Forbidden City.<br/>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Simone Giostra & Partners Archietcts has designed the Greenpix Zero Energy Media Wall - a groundbreaking project applying sustainable and digital media technology to the Xicui Entertainment Complex in Beijing, near the site of the Olympics.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Egg, Beijing, China]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:27 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Jimmie Wing reports on Kaoru Mende’s latest offering to the Beijing cultural scene.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Share’ Al-Muiz, Cairo, Egypt]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:37 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Surrounded by walls dating from the middle ages, Islamic Cairo - an UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 - is the oldest part at the very heart of the Egypt’s capital.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Vossloh-Schwabe and Semperlux have collaborated to create a stunning LED scheme on the banks of the Rhine.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The New 42nd Street Studios, located between New York’s Seventh and Eighth Avenues, is a prominent rehearsal space for the city’s performing arts community.<br/><br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Tom Stafford, President of Lightwild, a US manufacturer of architectural LED lighting products, explains their concept for the façade of Berlin's O2 World Arena.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The new Gatehouse spans the entrance and exit roads to the world famous Pinewood studio complex. The two-storey building, designed by Burland TM architects, includes a reception area, security facilities and a marketing suite. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:38 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The award winning led streetlight from OVI and Lighting Science Group is chosen for prototyping in New York City.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:19 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Jimmie Wing reports on a remarkable lighting design collaboration in Taiwan.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Patricia Glasow of Auerbach Glasow French describes her firm’s extensive involvement in lighting the recently completed Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, from the architectural lighting, to the illumination of the inaugural exhibitions.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:03 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Light and art converge in the newly illuminated face of the Marcus Center for the performing arts.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:09 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Mark Major of Speirs and Major Associates tells the story of the practice's involvement in the lighting of the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport. Carried out over an eight year period, the scheme is one of the largest, most extensive and ambitious public lighting projects seen in the UK in recent years.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Ledon provides spectacular lighting for the famous Schatzalp funicular railway.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:21 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Architects Lead Inc and Lighting Designer Arne Grønsdal have created a Ligh_Tecmasterpiece influenced by Duchamp<br/>]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:13 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[An unusual lighting solution for an unusual mountain railway.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[EMPAC Arts Center, Troy, USA]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:49 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert Such explores legendary theatre lighting designer Jennifer Tipton's first foray into the  architectural market with an installation at a new facility for media artists in New York State.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[National Theatre, London, England]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[As a result of a five year partnership between Philips and the National Theatre, the first external lighting phase began in autumn 2007. Fundamental to the project was the vision to combine architectural sensitivity and audience enhancement with energy efficiency ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:30 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Bob Bohanon, General Manager of Sill Lighting UK, recounts the teamwork in arriving at a harmonious and energy-effecient lighting scheme for the renovated St. Pancras International, the new terminal for High Speed 1]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Senayan City, Jakarta, Indonesia]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Jakarta's most recent external LED installation has become symbolic of the urban complex it enhances.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Muncaster Castle, Cumbria, England]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:45 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Country houses like Muncaster have a great history of pioneering new technology. Peter Frost-Pennington, whose family has occupied the castle for 800 years, was thus maintaining a proud tradition when he turned to Marl for innovative LED lighting solutions that would not only make access safe and practical for visitors, but could become an attraction in themselves.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:32 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Mima is the first building in the UK by Erick van Egeraat Architects (EEA), whose works include the ING Head office in Budapest, the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Warsaw, the City hall in Alphen, aan den Rijn In holland University,  Rotterdam as well as works in Russia, Germany and Italy. The scheme includes a spacious foyer and a new 5-acre public square between the gallery and Middlesbrough Town Hall, created by landscape designers  West 8. Both feature spectacular lighting solutions from se’lux.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bloch Building Expansion, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:14 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bloch Building expansion to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City by Steven Holl Architects provides a counterpoint to the original 1933 Beaux-Arts building. Five lenses of glass walls emerge from the ground and create a luminous, undulating interplay between architecture, landscape and art. Here Rebecca Malkin and Richard Renfro of Renfro Design Group give a personal account of their involvement in the lighting design.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Liverpool Vision, Liverpool, England]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Graham Festenstein discusses the high points and pitfalls of delivering a street level strategy for Liverpool’s Feature Lighting Programme. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mercedes Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany]]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Concrete Architectural Associates has designed a dynamic space in an inspirational building designed by UNStudio...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Two French giants of lighting design, Yann Kersalé and Georges Berne, have tackled the exterior and interior lighting schemes of Jean Nouvel's latest iconic building...]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:48 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Richard Rogers’ dynamically designed airport has been nominated for a Stirling Prize. the lighting is equally as inspirational. Jonathan Speirs explains... ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:26 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Marco Ludwig, author of papers on James Turrell and Villa Panza, gives a fascinating personal account of the epic project that has split opinion and created a public storm in the German capital and beyond...<br/><br/>]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Uniqa Tower, Vienna, Austria]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The new Uniqa Tower on Vienna’s Danube Canal has been outlined as the spectacular headquarters for the huge insurance group. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Vincent Laganier interviews the Swedish lighting designer Stefan Wiktorsson of Ljusdesign AB, the brains behind the scheme...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:27 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Vincent Laganier talks to Yann Kersallé, the light artist behind Jean Nouvel’s masterpiece in Barcelona, about his experiment with diffraction...]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:40 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Perhaps no other architect has been linked so much with the new wave of school building projects than Will Alsop. At the Queen Mary Medical School, Alsop teamed up with lighting guru Janet Turner for a radical lighting design aimed to stimulate the medical students.]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Delivered on budget (£41.5 million) and in time to be opened by the Queen on St. David’s Day, the Senedd has attracted as much good publicity as the Scottish Parliament gained bad. here, Matthew Winter of consulting engineers and lighting designers for the project, BDSP, gives a personal account of Cardiff’s latest iconic building.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Open University Jennie Lee Building]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[When The Open University wanted to create a cutting edge research department for its Institute of Education Technology and Computing Department, the design concept called for a comprehensive lighting solution.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Riccione Conference Centre, Rimini]]></title>
 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Dynamic and versatile, the brand new Riccione Conference Centre (Rimini – Italy) excels with a distinctive multi-functional structure and an outstanding ambience. ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 15:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[London-based artists ObSquare has completed a six-month project designed to encourage students to create kinetic sculptures using lasers, lights and recyclable materials]]></description>
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