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The expansion of Loyola University of Chicago’s historic campus in Rome included the construction of a student accommodation complex, a chapel and an entrance hall, and the redefinition of the external transit spaces.  The architectural design is closely tied to the choice of brick as the dominant element. “This familiar domestic building material serves to create a visual and physical link between the existing and the new, to modulate light, to give a reassuring sense of mass and to establish a tangible pattern and a coherent colour for the architectural whole,” explains architect Ignazio Lo Manto. The simplicity of form and composition is combined with sobriety, precision, technical skill and a careful study of nat... More

Châlons-en-Champagne, near Reims, in the heart of the historic province of Champagne, is home to the House of Joseph Perrier, a company founded in 1825 and currently run by the sixth generation of the founding family. Joseph Perrier stands for a tradition of Champagne excellence handed down from father to son for almost two centuries. The House is headquartered in an old coaching inn, and the land surrounding it holds a network of subterranean tunnels excavated in the Gallo-Roman era. In 2019, the company commissioned an ambitious project. The historic site was completely renovated, and new areas open to the public were added. At the same time, the lighting was redesigned. The cellars, the new garden and the outdoor spaces all benefi... More

The fascinating Botaniq Castle in Tura, Pest County, Hungary has been returned to its former glory after a restoration that involved transforming the entire building from an erstwhile aristocratic residence into a modern luxury hotel. The restoration included a new lighting design for the exteriors, carried out by 3F Project. L&L’s lighting fixtures were used in different areas in the structure, starting with the main entrance, where customers are greeted by an imposing arched entrance. It is flanked by a tall, cylindrical tower with a series of rectangular windows along its whole height. On the sills of each window in the entrance and the tower, and on those of the arched dormer windows, 3000K, 7W Lyss 1.0 projectors were instal... More

Tuttlingen, a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, built a new fire station on a site of around 9,800 square metres. The steel-reinforced concrete structure was finished off with long-lasting, age-resistant clinker brick facing.16 vehicle boxes were planned. Other features included a servicing and washing area, and at the rear of the complex a workshop, a storehouse, and changing rooms and toilets for the fire fighters. A 14 metre high hose tower for drying the hoses after use rounded off the project. Large asphalt and paved areas predominate outside.Thanks to their large performance spectrum, BEGA LED wall luminaires with asymmetrical flat beam light distribution perform the lighting tasks around the station.B... More

This hotel was recently renovated, a project that preserved the traditional identity of the structure opened almost a hundred years ago, in 1929, by Thon Hotels, one of Norway’s largest hotel chains. The lighting design devised by SML Lighting involved the exteriors of the two buildings at the intersection of Kristian IV's and Rosenkrantz’ gate, using light to highlight the first floors of both facades, one historical and the other decidedly more modern. The lighting effect obtained in this way creates a sort of visual continuum that leads the eye of passers-by down a long urban perspective. For the rose-coloured building, with its large four-part windows and period lanterns fixed to the wall on the ground floor,&nbs... More

Sitting on the Apulia shoreline, La Perla del Doge is a ceremony and events venue, sought after for its breathtaking view out across the blue Adriatic Sea. The structure contains two large banqueting rooms that connect with the outdoor area through huge openings that call to mind an elegant portico. At the base of the huge picture windows that punctuate the exterior wall, there are Neva 5 linear profiles with RGB light and 15° narrow optics, chosen specifically to ensure the coloured light reaches right to the top of every opening. The fixtures are made of Anticorodal® aluminium alloy and offer excellent corrosion resistance as well as guaranteeing better heat dissipation. In combination with the anodizing process, this c... More