Mindseye Lighting provides the WOW factor for the recently refurbished Rotunda reception.
The installation of spectacular lighting brings the refurbishment of iconic building, the Rotunda in Birmingham, England to an end. Mindseye Lighting were asked to design a lighting scheme to dramatise the reception area for the newly refurbished Rotunda Building that, in itself, could become a talking piece.
The Grade II listed cylindrical building has been part of Birmingham’s skyline since the 1960s and is a key landmark in Birmingham’s City Centre. It has recently undergone a makeover and been completely restyled by developers Urban Splash and Glenn Howells Architects encouraging every one of its’ 232 residential apartments to sell out on the first launch day. Mindseye Lighting were commissioned by Glenn Howells Architects and challenged with filling a 9m high void in the entrance lobby. Effectively a large scale chandelier, the final design measures 14.5m long and 4.8m at its widest.
437 Element Lab’s pixels are suspended in the ends of polished aluminum tubes, with some lengths reaching almost 6m. The contour and layout of the ‘ceiling wave’ was carefully considered to maximize interest and viewing angles for the public, with 46 rows of tubes running front to back. A total of 940m of tubes were used to achieve the desired effect. The polished finish provides light reflections making it look just like a chandelier.
Mindseye also generated content which plays out through the LEDs 24/7. The content clips loop every 5 minutes providing continuous waves of colour. A sky scene has been created along with coloured scenes.
We love our green fashion here at Inhabitat, but ‘green gadget couture’ is something for us to really get charged up about! This white (hot) tiled frock (think Paco Rabanne circa mid-1960’s) is the quintessential Day-For-Night eco-fashion number, as it passively soaks up the sun’s rays during the daytime so that you can be a flashy fashion power pack at night. Showcased at Siggraph some time ago, we thought that we would resuscitate this eco-chic modular dress for another groovy go around on the sustainable style circuit.
The Day-For-Night Solar Dress, designed by Despina Papadopoulos at Studio 5050, is custom-tailored with 448 white circuit board tiles that ‘accommodate solar cells, RGB LEDs, or photocells and jumper connections in the form of 0 Ohm resistors’. The black tiles are solar cells that are used to charge batteries to power the device. Metal rings hold the tiles together creating a sexy chain mail effect that one can hardly ‘resist’ in wearable technology. Power is transmitted via a control board that communicates with the tiles and also links to a computer via radio frequency (RF). A bit tedious perhaps for the average user, but we think that the Day-For-Night Dress is an energy-generating stunner, and obviously a total conversation piece and innovative shift. The length of the dress obviously determines its power-packin’ punch, but with hemlines always fluctuating, we say interact at your own risk!
Dandilight by designer Benjamin Hubert is a range of resin cast interior lamps inspired by sprawling cityscapes and the shift towards urbanisation and the loss of green belt areas. Dandilights are floor and pendant lamps embodying geometric urban environments counterbalanced with a softer organic macro form, reflecting the aesthetic of a dandelion.
Lamps are comprised of a resin cast head and a sandblasted aluminium stand (floor lamp).
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