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Core LED fixtures illuminate the Tower of London

Over 160 Core Lighting wireless LED fixtures were used to illuminate various areas in and around the Tower of London for an event attended by 200 guests and staged by Historic Royal Palaces (HRP). The ColourPoint, PinPoint, StripPoint and Flood30 fixtures were used to highlight architecture and enhance the evening atmosphere of this historic site where the Core units were exclusively used for the lighting throughout.

The creative lighting schemes were a collaboration between Core and its European distributor White Light. Core staff, including MD Phil Ion, were on site to assist in maximising the lighting opportunities. Event guests first visited the Jewel House to view the Crown Jewels and on exiting proceeded to the White Tower, the oldest part of the Tower castle complex and the old keep, originally built to subdue unruly Londoners and deter foreign invaders. The side of the White Tower was pixel mapped for the occasion, featuring a selection of projected video sequences.

The route between the two locations and the pathway to the White Tower were all lit with Core’s Flood30 portable floodlight products, against the backdrop of Tower Bridge lit up just beyond. Various features like the ruins of the Wardrobe Tower were up-lit from below using five Core Point30 colour floodlights, tuned to a tungsten amber colour, while the various artefacts and floral arrangements dotted around inside the entrance were picked out with Core’s PinPoints.

Upstairs again, the walls of the banqueting hall, now a museum area, on the first floor of the White Tower were washed with Core StripPoint battens, and the relief of the alcoves and windows around the room highlighted with Core ColourPoints. Guests passed through this museum area then through the Chapel of St. John to the adjacent Court room which was set up as the drinks reception and bar. Features around the room were illuminated with PinPoints in warm white, including two enormous flower displays on the bar and other bouquets positioned around the room.

The ancient flint walls of the room were accentuated by StripPoints. Six oak columns traversing each side of the room were up-lit with shafts of light from ColourPoints. When the White Tower element of the event was concluded, guests went back outside and crossed the road to the New Armouries, where the long façade was lit with seven StripPoints. Later in the evening the entire side of the White Tower was also lit with six of these units, turning the full 90 ft height (5/6 storeys) the same uniform colour.

Inside, the New Armouries was set up as a gala dinner with 20 tables, each featuring a floral arrangement and streaming parasol at the centre which were lit with PinPoints. The walls of this room were all lit with ColourPoints in a standard configuration, shooting up the walls. The oak panels around the lower portions of the walls were bathed in the reflections which made them pop out from the walls in a 3D effect. The lightsources also bounced off the floor. The bar and two more flower arrangements were each picked out with two warm white PinPoints that were resting on nearby ledges.

All of the Core products used were controlled via wireless DMX and linked to one lighting console, and could be switched between ‘atmospheric’/‘environmental’ and ‘party’ modes to match the different moods required at different times around the various event locations.

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