Outdoorlighting

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

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