Leisure
Corinthian spirit
The Corinthia Hotel in London is home to the capital’s largest urban spa and is 70 per cent fitted with low-energy LED lighting. Ellie Greisen, senior lighting designer at Lighting Design International, talks to Amanda Allen about tight briefs and a client with an aversion to downlights
A bigger splash
The Zaha Hadid-designed Aquatics Centre is set to become one of the Olympic Park’s most impressive and frequented sites. Amanda Allen talks to Arup about its lighting design for the arena
The challenge of champions
With work completed on the Olympic venues, attention has turned to other areas of Olympic Park lighting. Amanda Allen takes a look at one lighting installation designed to test the public
Wider angles
As lighting design adviser to the Olympic Delivery Authority, Speirs and Major’s remit was to take a broad view of the Park’s external lighting scheme. Ben Cronin talks to practice co-founder Mark Major
A walk in the Park
A broad and demanding brief covering energy efficiency, legacy uses and the welfare of bats governed Sutton Vane Associates’ strategy and designs for lighting the Olympic Park and Public Realm. Nick Martindale reports
Park life
A key aim of the regeneration of the Borough of Lewisham was to improve the quality of life for the area’s inhabitants. Amanda Allen talks to Light Bureau’s Paul Traynor on how they brightened up Fordham Park
The dawn of eco-indulgence
Energy use in a spa is typically high, but one Berkshire establishment is changing the energy-guzzling reputation of the relaxation industry – starting with the lighting. Jill Entwistle reports
Tibidabo, Barcelona
Tibidabo is the first public space in Barcelona to be totally illuminated using LED fixtures
Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen
Lindemann Architects designed the three-storey Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen as a concrete structure within a glass cube.
Grand Resort Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Designers at the five-star Grand Resort Bad Ragaz in Switzerland opted to use the ZBOX lighting management system from Zumtobel in the complex’s 56 spa suites
Another cool pool
This Jean Nouvel project is a swimming pool complex in Le Havre – and this time he tackled the lighting (OK, Yann Kersalé did the outside…)
