Out and About Sill Lighting UK Bleigiessen sculpture London, UK
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Simply Stunning 30 metre glass sculpture lit by Sill LED projectors.
In 2004, Hopkins Architects designed Gibbs Building in Euston Road, London which is now the headquarters of the global charitable foundation The Wellcome Trust, dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in health.
The stunning Bleigiessen sculpture which is located at the western end of the atrium has a cascading form of 142,000 glass spheres suspended along steel wires with an intriguing pattern created by dropping molten lead into the water. This stunning feature is now lit by an energy and maintenance saving LED solution, using Sill Lighting as specified by Eric Maddock. Sill’s 141 and 140 high efficiency
projectors, with their warm white LEDs, replaced previous Sill metal halide fittings in the atrium. Both of these fittings are used to accent light on the Bleigiessen, but now neutral white LEDs are used to achieve the strongest aesthetic effect. Using LED replacement light fittings with 0-10V dimmable control options has now cut energy consumption by over 60% in the Gibbs building.
Section head of building services at the
Wellcome Trust, Alan Aldridge, comments, "In the context of lighting a sculpture and
atrium of this size and complexity, it was an essential requirement for this project to complement and enhance the existing architectural aspects of the building. The Sill LED product enabled the Trust to meet these key criteria, at the same time as contributing towards its environmental goals. It is definitely a win-win situation for the Trust."
Explaining further, Project operations manager Matt Thomas adds “We were looking for an LED fitting that would provide us with energy savings and also a reduction in maintenance costs. Whilst most fittings could provide the energy and maintenance savings, the Sill luminaire was the only one whose design we considered to be on a par with the other fixtures and fittings within our building. The company also provided lamp temperature options that most others didn’t.”
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