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feno before light and beyond

Bremerhaven Climate House 8° East From pole to pole: visitors to the Climate House in Bremerhaven go on a journey around the world on a line of longitude.

Is it a ship? Is it a cloud? In the »old/new port« of the 2000 individually controllable light sources to the Bremerhaven there is an unusual building offering a trip dynamic system. Software was written specially for this around the world. The building, designed by architect project to enable these huge quantities to be properly Thomas Klumpp, houses the Klimahaus which was marshaled. So Bremerhaven now has a new landmark opened in June 2009. A tour takes visitors through – a firmament on the glass skin of the Klimahaus. different climate zones, along the 8 degrees east line of longitude. When evening comes tiny dots of light appear Used Products: on the glass façade. These artificial stars get brighter fm s.disc 7200 w and brighter, creating the illusion of a starlit sky combined with wind and water. Lighting designer Gerd Contractor: Bremerhavener Entwicklungsgesellschaft Alter/Neuer Pfarré has successfully married aesthetics with Hafen mbH & Co. KG Architects: KLUMPP ARCHITECTS URBAN PLANNERS ATTRACTION symbolism in his concept of thematic connections. DESIGN, Bremen/D Lighting Design: pfarré lighting design, Munich/D, Creating this nighttime scene on the 125 meter long www.lichtplanung.com and 82 meter wide building with its 10,000 square Electrical Installation: WISAG Elektrotechnik GmbH, Frankfurt/D meters of glass was an enormous challenge in terms Photograph credits: Markus Tollhopf of programming and implementation. An incredible sixteen kilometers of cabling were installed to connect

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Qipco Office Tower, Doha The winds of change

Qatar Investment & Project Development Holding to bottom, from bottom to top and across the diagonals (Qipco) has made a bold statement with its head- like a swarm. Dynamic spirals loop around the building quarters, the Qipco Office Tower in the new "West Bay" as if they were trying to lift it off its foundations. This quarter of Doha. It stands as a symbol for financial night-time display has become symbolic of this health, ecological progress and growing economic pulsating city, and indeed the country. The lighting networks. Its lozenge-shaped steel skeleton is a concept was created by the Frankfurt-based light artist powerful expression of all these elements. It provides Thomas Emde for Qatar Investment & Projects maximum stability and enables the building to be used Development Holding. It perfectly illustrates the efficiently and sustainably. importance of the company for the financial and economic strength of Qatar. Locals call it the "Tornado Tower" after a natural phenomenon that brings chaos and destruction. This Used Products: is because after the sun goes down the mesh façade Custom-made LED strip modules resembles the funnel shape of a twister. 2700 Contractor: Qatar Investment & Project Development Holding individually controlled high-power LEDs mounted at Architects: SIAT the intersections on the steel structure are capable of Lighting Design: Thomas Emde lighting up the night sky in any of 35,000 possible colour Photograph Credits: Ralph Larmann combinations. The coloured light sweeps down from top

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Zug Station, Zug Liquid light: James Turrell has turned Zug station into a dynamic colour installation.

Two slim structures, linked by a glazed façade, situations in the building to be visualized, the colors constitute the new station building in Zug designed by and sequences could be defined on site with the artist the Zurich-based architects Hornberger. The unusual and put together in a seamless choreographic depth and 3D nature of the architecture is further arrangement. emphasized when night falls and James Turrell’s lighting installation comes into play. Flowing color- Used Products: chases spread not just over the glass but along the fc s.dmx 144d, fi dmx-pwm 4d, fi pwm-analog 4d inner façades of the narrowing concourse, accentuating the »perspective effect« of the lines as they appear to Contractor: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB, Luzern/CH, converge on a point away in the distance. With its www.sbb.ch Architects: Hornberger Architekten AG, Zurich/CH, constant color transitions and changing rhythms the www.swiss-architects.com/hornberger light also gives the building a pulsating vibrant energy. Electrical Planning: HEFTI.HESS.MARTIGNONI. Zug AG, Zug/CH, www.hhm.ch This work of art in light could only be accomplished if Electrical Installation: Marcel Hufschmid AG, Zug/CH the concept envisaged by James Turrell could be put Lighting Design: James Turrell, Flagstaff/USA into practice quickly and flexibly. Thanks to a com- Light Planning: Dieter Dartsch, interior designer, Riehen/CH Photograph credits: Florian Holzherr prehensive control concept devised by feno and specially developed software that enables the lighting

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Lentos Art Museum, Linz The beautiful red-blue Danube: at dusk, the art museum takes on an ever-changing mantel of light.

Lentos is one of the most important museums of Used Products: modern art in Austria – for its exhibits and also for its fi dmx-dsi 4d architecture. The glass skin reflects the ambient light and gives the building a transparent, almost weightless Contractor: Stadt Linz, www.linz.at character. This impression of weightlessness continues Architects: Weber Hofer Partner AG, Zürich/CH Electrical Planning: Wagner & Partner Ziviltechniker GmbH, Linz/A at night. Lentos starts to glow at dusk, seemingly Electrical Installation: Elektro & Electronic Landsteiner GmbH, absorbing the energy of the reddening evening sky. The Amstetten/A color changes smoothly from red to blue, from blue to Photograph credits: Engelhardt/Sellin red … a living body of light in the nocturnal silhouette of Linz, mirrored by the black and silent Danube. What appears to float like a Mozart minuet is actually based on a sophisticated and beautifully conceived »score« for light sources and control elements. The display is managed by a total of 116 feno signal converters which use the DMX protocol to control the brightness and color of the DSI luminaires integrated in the frame of the façade, until the sun rises the following morning.

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Subway Station Heddernheim, Frankfurt am Main As trains approach and leave the station they trigger a signal that changes the light on the platform.

The lighting concept for the railway station at Contactor: VGF Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt, Heddernheim near Frankfurt is impressive for its Frankfurt/D, www.vgf-ffm.de schoyerer architekten BDA, Mainz/D, lightweight transparent design. Architects: www.schoyerer.de The backlit metal surfaces of the station reflect the Electrical Planning: IHE-Ingenieurbüro Hörbert, Darmstadt/D light outwards. Standard fluorescent lamps and Photograph credits: Gerhard Kassner controllers from feno have been used here to produce an unusual eye-catching lighting display that is linked to the arrival and departure of the trains. As a train approaches Heddernheim it triggers a signal that changes the light on the platform so that passengers waiting there know that the next train is due soon.

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Generali Insurance, Munich Light meanders through the link between the main buildings, emphasizing the continuity and transparency of the structure.

The lighting concept for the new building for Generali Contractor: AMB Generali Immobilien GmbH, München/DE Versicherung AG in Munich places the focus firmly on Architect: HPP Architekten, München/DE Werning Day & Light, people and architecture. The light is pleasant, Lighting Design and Light Planning: Lichtplaner, München/DE unobtrusive and comfortable. Photograph credits: Dietmar Strauß The colored dynamic lighting system designed by Werning Day & Light and featuring controllers from feno emphasizes the continuity and transparency of the glass structure. The light wanders like a cloud through the building with impressively smooth color changes.

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Sparkasse, Breisgau The building makes a fascinating impression, appearing in a variety of ever-changing colours.

The completely renovated and redesigned headquarters Contractor: Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau, of the Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau bank www.sparkasse-freiburg.de Architekturbüro an der Milchstraße Schäfer, Theissen, has been making a colorful impact since December 4, Architect: Kaelble, Albanbauer, Freiburg/D, www.stka-architekten.de 2006. The building makes a fascinating impression, Lighting Design: Architekturbüro an der Milchstraße Schäfer, appearing in a variety of ever-changing colors. The Theissen, Kaeble, Albanbauer, Freiburg/D, www.stka-architekten.de lighting was devised by the "Architekturbüro an der Photograph credits: Scholz Lichttechnik Milchstraße Schäfer, Theissen, Kaelble, Albanbauer" and implemented with a multi-functional lighting system from Scholz Lichttechnik and controllers and LED modules from feno.

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ÖAMTC Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club, Linz »Colour Fade« is a dynamic installation for the Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club.

»Colour Fade« is a dynamic installation for the austrian Contractor: ÖAMTC, Linz/A www.oeamtc.at automotive club, realized in 2009. Two colours, yellow Light Art: Alexander Wiethoff Alexander Wiethoff and green blend together in slow sequences. While Photograph credits: yellow represents the club´s brand colour the fade into green symbolizes the movement towards a greener future in general, but especially in the sense of mobility and the impact which alternative drive mechanisms will provide in the next decades. The large concrete architecture in which »Colour Fade« was implemented is in the center of the main square in front of the headquarter´s building. At night this installation serves as an ambient source of light and its continuous movement also represents the twenty-four hour availability of the company which will always provide help to its members in need.

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ADAC Service Centre, Munich Subtle dynamics

Bright, modern and linear is the way the ADAC’s south at night, with a monochromatic gradation of colour from German Service Centre in the middle of Munich yellow to black. This gives the service centre’s offices a appears. For the renovation of the building’s façade at dreamy outline that gives way to wide-awake lines Sendlinger Tor, however, the „Yellow Angels“ took a during the day. somewhat interesting route. Germany’s largest automobile club wanted to demonstrate its Used products: environmental awareness through a no-compromise Custom-made LED strip modules, CO2-low lighting concept with innovative optical fd dmx 3-24e 700 technology. Contractor: ADAC Lights, each containing two LEDs with an opposed Lighting Planning: Korona-Leuchten GmbH Photograph Credits: Korona-Leuchten GmbH reflector, were integrated inconspicuously into the window reveals. At dusk and during the night, the building is discreetly illuminated. The light generated, in typical ADAC yellow, is directed precisely on the reflector, which focuses it on the window reveals and the roof. This indirect lighting gives the façade, which appears angular by day, a surprisingly soft appearance