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ROSS ASHTON IS MAIN ARTIST AT 2010 PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS


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Ross Ashton of UK-based The Projection Studio was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to be the main artist for the 2010 Pittsburgh Festival of Lights, for which he produced 4 stunning pro- jection works. It's Ashton's first major work in


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the US and follows his installations at last year’s event for curators Marguerite Jarrett-Marks and Christopher Oberdorf and another that he produced for New Year’s Eve 2009/2010. The challenge was on to produce something that was com- pletely different from anything in the past and that would engage the public as well as bring critical acclaim to the festival. The Festival of Light was concen-


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LDA Design has appointed Rob Shaw as Director of Sustainability & Climate Change to develop and expand its renewable energy team. Helen Pearce joins as Associate. Both are based in the practice’s London office. The renewable energy team adds to LDA Design’s comprehensive offer, which already includes energy services in the form of environmental planning and a specialist expertise in wind farms. The energy service


NEW APPOINTMENTS GIVE LDA DESIGN AN ENERGY BOOST


will sit alongside and be integrated into LDA Design’s other services including masterplanning, urban design, landscape architecture and architecture. It will provide strategic consultan-


cy to clients, making sense of energy and climate change policy and regu- lation and translating opportunities into realisable projects. Rob Shaw, a town planner and sustainability spe- cialist, joins from AECOM, where he was associate director of the firm’s Sustainable Development Group and director of policy and projects at the Town & Country Planning Association. Helen Pearce also worked in


AECOM’s Sustainable Development Group as an energy specialist and prior to that was sustainability adviser at Transport for London. At LDA Design, she will develop energy and climate change strategies for masterplans, major new develop- ments, landowners and communities as well as advising local authorities on


planning policy and delivery strate- gies for renewable and low carbon energy infrastructure. “Sustainability and energy targets


and regulations are here to stay and affect all of us. We help our clients to understand their obligations and avoid potential pitfalls but, more importantly, to realise the financial and social benefits that action can bring. We can then, because of the range of environment, masterplan- ning and architectural services we provide, help to implement projects,” said Rob Shaw. “For local local authorities, we can


devise a climate change and energy vision for an area and an implementa- tion strategy to deliver it; we can help a landowner to identify energy opportunities from which they can expect a financial return; we can help developers to achieve planning consent and a return from investment in energy technologies; and we can help communities set up and manage successful energy projects”, he added.


trated in The Cultural Quarter of the city, and the art works had to utilise existing architecture and spaces, which for projection purposes, were primarily confined to a series of flat walled buildings. Says Ashton, "It was a great privi-


lege to be asked to contribute as the lead artist and a very exhilarating task


to be able to create bold, original pieces related to the life, vibrancy and culture of the city, with which people could engage and enjoy". Splendours (as shown) The brief for the second work came from the Festival’s main sponsors Dusquene Light, who really wanted a piece involving elements of an exhibi- tion of Vatican art, which was in town at the same time. The 2010 event was a major success. Ashton found the urban


environment a different and stimulat- ing space in which to work and a real contrast, as much of his work is pro- jected onto historically and architec- turally significant buildings. "To have the blank canvass of


neutral coloured, open walls and con- crete as surfaces for the works, and the dynamics of the city around me as the public viewing spaces really made it come alive in terms of practical working art".


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