The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK
Issue 62 Aug/Sep 2011 : Retail : Museum

Named after Wakefield’s most famous daughter, the brilliant sculptor Barbara Hepworth, this gallery manages to perfectly combine daylighting with artificial illumination. more...

Riverside Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Issue 62 Aug/Sep 2011 : Retail : Museum

Zaha Hadid’s clean-lined, open-ended design for Glasgow’s new Riverside Museum posed a number of lighting challenges. more...

Jeongok Natural History Museum, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea
Issue 62 Aug/Sep 2011 : Retail : Museum

Beneath the silver snakeskin of the Jeongok Prehistory Museum, 8’18” has provided the basis for a flexible lighting solution that helps bring the past to life. more...

National Gallery & National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Issue 62 Aug/Sep 2011 : Retail : Museum

Both the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London have, after intensive investigation, arrived at the same conclusion: ERCO’s LED lighting is the future for them. more...

PANEL DISCUSSION : LED Gallery Lighting
Issue 62 Aug/Sep 2011

Paul James, mondo*arc editor, discusses the galleries’ conversion to ERCO LED lighting with Allan Tyrrell, Engineering Manager of the National Portrait Gallery; Dawson Carr, Curator of Spanish and Later Italian Paintings at the National Gallery; Steve Vandyke, Head of Technical Services at the National Gallery; and ERCO lighting consultants Nigel Sylvester and Steve Spencer.
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St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London, UK
Issue 61 Jun/Jul 2011 : Retail : Hotel

Designed by George Gilbert Scott and opened in 1873, the Midland Grand was a short-lived icon of Victorian London. Now, 76 years after its closure, St Pancras Chambers has been restored to its former glory by RHWL and Richard Griffiths Architects with a sympathetic yet innovative lighting scheme from AECOM. Here, Martin Valentine who was the project leader for AECOM, describes the project that became an obsession more...

W Hotel, London, UK
Issue 61 Jun/Jul 2011 : Retail : Hotel

In February the long awaited opening of the W Hotel took place at the core of London’s entertainment district, Leicester Square, on the site of the Swiss Centre building. MBLD worked hand in hand with interior architects Concrete to design all of the interior spaces, Spa, W suites, Wow suites and Wow Apartments. Rob Honeywill gives a first hand account... more...

W Retreat & Spa, Bali, Indonesia
Issue 61 Jun/Jul 2011 : Retail : Hotel

Lumina Group was charged with creating a ‘mysterious and relaxing’ experience for visitors to the latest in W’s new strand of Retreat & Spa resorts, which opened in Bali earlier this year more...

QT Resort, Gold Coast, Australia
Issue 61 Jun/Jul 2011 : Retail : Hotel

With a careful mix of relaxed sophistication and inspirational drama, PointOfView’s scheme for the QT Gold Coast Resort on Australia’s eastern seaboard has truly captured the spirit of Surfers Paradise more...

nhow, Berlin, Germany
Issue 61 Jun/Jul 2011 : Retail : Hotel

Whilst at the LED Lighting Summit in Berlin, Paul James was blown away by the hotel that hosted the conference. more...

Le Meridien, Philadelphia, USA

Issue 61 Jun/Jul 2011 : Retail : Hotel

Award-winning adaptive reuse transforms a former Philadelphia YMCA into a luxury hotel with a classy lighting scheme from Lighting Design Collaborative more...