Public buildings
Peterborough’s square deal
Sutton Vane Associates’ commission to design a lighting scheme for a project to rehabilitate Peterborough’s historic Cathedral Square in the centreof the city went far beyond public realm lighting. Amanda Allen reports
It all happened in a flask
Jonathan Coles Lighting Design has installed a kinetic display featuring laboratory glassware in its imaginative installation for The Wellcome Collection on London’s Euston Road. Amanda Allen reports
Scotland the brave
The Glasgow Riverside Museum is the first Zaha Hadid building to be completed in the UK. Jill Entwistle speaks to Inverse Lighting and DHA Design about working with an architect famed for her inability to compromise
Dutch courage
The Groninger Museum in Holland has enlisted the help of lighting specialist Ralph van den Berg and designer Maarten Baas
Follow the rainbow
Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’ is a circular, panoramic walkway, constructed on the roof of the Cubic Museum building in Arhus, Denmark
Victorian lighting
The Watts Gallery in Compton, Surrey, reopened on 18 June after a £10 million restoration project in which an extensive lighting scheme plays a major part in representing the work of a major ‘lost’ artist of the Victorian era
Light-inspired seafront
The Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate has opened a light-inspired building
The Sky's the limit
David Atkinson’s lighting scheme for the Sky Gallery at The O2 blends LEDs with traditional technologies to stunning effect. Jill Entwistle asks the 2011 Lighting Designer of the Year how he realised the project
The museum case for LEDs
A US project shows that some LEDs can be on a par with halogen for use in museum accent lighting - and they save energy. Francis Pearce reports
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
The 17th-century Teatro Comunale di Bologna has improved its lighting with Alpha Washes and Alpha Profiles from Clay Paky
Queens Theatre, London
Bruce Munro has completed a project to light the Queens Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Queensland Performing Arts Centre
The Queensland Government in Australia has invested £19 million in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Brisbane’s South Bank
Architecture and light in concert
The most expensive concert hall in the world, Danish Radio’s Konzerthuset, depends as much on lighting by Yann Kersalé as it does on great acoustics to make an impact
Net benefits
Customers are attracted into the O2 in Dublin by a striking LED mesh, a clever combination of structural engineering and lighting
Behind the curtain at Gleneagles
Lighting Design International’s scheme supplies almost all the light for the new spa at Scotland’s famous Gleneagles Hotel
