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  • Shanghai International Financial Center

    Shanghai International Financial Center

    Shanghai, PRC

    The ‘Shanghai International Financial Center’ in the center of Shanghai consists of three towers housing the stock exchange, offices and conference rooms. The towers are connected by two floating mezzanine floors. These levels house all areas accessible to the public, such as a museum and rooms for art exhibitions. The lighting concept provides for each of the three towers to have their own individual interior lighting. The lighting in all areas of the building meets the highest standards of energy efficiency and maximum control. To this end, the building will be equipped with the latest energy-efficient luminaires, intelligent control systems and light sensors.
    A light art façade on all parts of the building with public use emphasizes the ensemble character of the building and makes the Shanghai International Financial Centre visible from a distance.

    • Client

      Shanghai Stock Exchange
      China Financial Futures Exchange Co., Ltd.
      China Securities Depository and Clearing Co. Ltd.

    • Architect

      FGP Atelier

    • Light Art

      Yann Kersale

    • Photo

      Qingyan Zhu

    • Completion

      2020

  • GOOGLE BERLIN

    GOOGLE BERLIN

    Berlin, Germany

    The new Google & Youtube offices & studios are located in Tucholskystraße in the center of Berlin. The design by AHMM Architects provides for a series of architectural interventions, which were carefully introduced into the listed building in order to activate the usability of the interior space for Google’s purposes. At the same time, the character of this historic building was to be preserved. In order to accompany and make visible the ‘flow’ of human activities and movements within the building, a light graphic of suspended curved light lines was developed for the horizontal and vertical access areas. At the intersections of the corridors and staircases, the light lines were concentrated into circles and ellipses and become three-dimensional light sculptures in the staircases. Suspended workplace luminaires with a down and up-light component illuminate the areas of the computer workstations evenly. In the break-out areas, decorative luminaires with classic technical luminaire design from the early 19th century were used to refer to the building’s construction period from the height of Berlin’s industrialization.

     

    • Client

      Google

    • Architects

      Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM)

    • Photos

      Timothy Soar

    • Completion

      2019

    • Awards

      LIT Lighting Design Awards 2020

  • Highlight Munich Business Towers

    Highlight Munich Business Towers

    Munich, Germany

    The twin towers of the Highlight Tower in Munich can best be described as a funnel of endless reflecting surfaces. The buildings are equipped with blue static luminous marker lights located at the edges of the building on each floor, accentuating the cubature of the towers at night. Fluctuating light in the pedestrian bridges and the glass lift cabins emphasizes the few structural connections between the towers. A multitude of light reflections and refractions create the impression of endless rooms filled with changing coloured light. The dynamic lighting integrated into the access elements accentuates the architectural form. The office lighting for this project is developed as combined ceiling illumination and functional workplace lighting supports the perception of the spatial structure of the building. The brightly illuminated ceilings of the office rooms define the architecture and contribute to a high user-friendliness of the building.

     

     

    • Client

      Bürozentrum Parkstadt München-Schwabing KG

    • Architects

      JAHN

    • Photo

      Rainer Viertlböck

    • Completion

      2005

    • Awards

      GE EDISON AWARD 2006
      Award of Merit

  • MesseTurm

    MesseTurm

    Frankfurt am Main,

    The high-rise tower designed by Helmut Jahn in 1990 became one of the landmarks of the financial metropolis by virtue of its striking shape with the pyramid top. With a height of 257m, the 64 storey tower was the tallest building in Frankfurt for a long time. In 2019, the renovation of the building was planned by Helmut Jahn Architects in cooperation with Matteo Thun Architects. All public areas, especially the foyer, underground circulation and restaurants were to be re-designed. In the central foyer, the four large existing glass facades were renewed and moved outwards from the facade level. This created glazed conservatories on all sides of the building on the ground floor, and the total area of the foyer increased by approx. 70%. A backlit glass wall encloses the central rotunda of the lift lobby. This creates a luminous core in the centre of the building which provides a great depth (spatially) and turns the entire foyer into a visual focal point from the street space of Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage.
    The re-design of the exterior lighting included retrofitting of the linear edge lighting of the tower pyramid with modern LED luminaires that continued on to the building façade. Linear marker luminaires mounted on the bay windows on every consecutive floor of the building, now accentuates the entire cubature of the tower at night.

    • Client

      MesseTurm PropCo S.a.r.l.
      Represented by OFFICEFIRST Real Estate GmbH

    • Architects

      JAHN

    • Interior Architects

      Matteo Thun & Partners

    • Credits

      Video TwoSence
      p1, p2, p3, p5 Henning Kreft
      p4 Sodexo
      p6 Matteo Thun & Partners

    • Completion

      2021

  • Skyline Tower

    Skyline Tower

    Munich, Germany

    Skyline Tower is a 22-storey high-rise office building on the outskirts of downtown Munich. Simplistic in its architectural form, yet dominant in structural clarity, the building’s glass and steel shell provides full transparency through the structure, transforming its functional office lighting into the building’s night-time illumination.  By unifying the top-level interior lighting with the exterior cantilever lighting as one singular visual element, in conjunction with the backlit façade, the lighting scheme for Skyline Tower allows it to influence and create a unique addition to the Munich skyline.

    • Client

      Bayerische Bau und Immobilien Gruppe

    • Architects

      JAHN

    • Photo

      Rainer Viertlböck

    • Completion

      2014

  • Merck Serono

    Merck Serono

    Geneva, Switzerland

    Merck-Serono, one of the biggest Bio-Tech Company in the world, is a city-block of existing and new structures redefining convention. Opaque and transparent fragments of the building are unified by light, projecting a consistent image of strong yet soft, light yet airy, creating a magical and changing boundary to the public realm. The ultimate goal of lighting is to create a pleasant and comfortable working place for its users. Halls and bridges connecting functional areas become pleasant journeys in light and comprehension, easing, and facilitating movements. Daylight and controlled electric lighting result in a building of high technology, but low energy consumption.

     

    • Client

      Horizon Serono

    • Architects

      JAHN
      Mackay + Partners LLP

    • Photo

      Rainer Viertlboeck, photos 1-4

    • Completion

      2006

  • Mannheimer 2

    Mannheimer 2

    Mannheim, Germany

    When the corporate headquarters for the Mannheimer Versicherung Augustaanlage GmbH in Mannheim/Germany required additional space, the consequent acquisition of the adjoining plot led to the design of the companion building – a timeless, ultramodern aesthetic. The original building is a solid sculptural mass whereas the new ‘glowing’ building is transparent and illuminated from within. Its twin shell, tested materials and sustainable technologies provide maximum comfort and low-energy consumption. Light and transparency juxtaposed with the sculptural mass create a symbiosis of function and form.

    • Client

      Mannheimer Versicherung Augustaanlage GmbH & Co

    • Architects

      JAHN

    • Light Art

      Yann Kersalé

    • Photos

      Atelier Altenkirch

    • Completion

      2005

  • Post Tower

    Post Tower

    Bonn, Germany

    The central administration building of Europe’s largest logistics company, the Deutsche Post Tower in Bonn is a cornucopia of potentially record-breaking superlatives. Transparency is glamorized by color changing sequences for over 55,000m² of glazed façade. All workplaces receive indigenously designed artificial light that cater to human needs and feeling of well- being. Intelligent ‘light-architecture’ and not the luminaire design creates the atmosphere in the building, reducing the running costs by 40 percent. This groundbreaking, futuristic and flamboyant corporate lighting design concept uses colored light as a quintessential art installation that illuminates the entire building creating an ‘urban night-scenography.’

    Architect Helmut Jahn’s holistic idea of letting light art, lighting design and architecture work as a whole, in relation to interior and exterior space, was to be implemented in the new Posttower in Bonn. The aim was to present light as a unifying element from the field of tension between transparency and reflection. The light transparency of the building envelope is continued inside. All materials and surfaces are penetrated by light. Glass ceilings and glass floors are backlit, as are the metal mesh walls. At night, the Post Tower becomes a transparent, light-flooded sculpture of steel and glass.

     

     

    • Client

      Deutsche Post Bauen GmbH

    • Arhitects

      JAHN

    • Light Art

      Yann Kersalé

    • Completion

      2003

    • Awards

      IALD AWARD 2004
      Award of Merit
      Category: ”Corporate Design”

  • Association of the German Crafts

    Association of the German Crafts

    Berlin, Germany

    As part of the renovation of the representative areas of the Haus des Deutschen Handwerks’ in Berlin Mitte, the lighting is being extensively revised. The lighting concept envisages upgrading the existing lighting as far as possible with modern lighting technology and also implementing new lighting integrated into the architecture. The combination of existing luminaires and integrated architectural lighting enables the lighting atmosphere in these areas to be controlled and fine-tuned. Thus, for the partially day-lit reception and exhibition areas on the ground floor, a daylight-controlled luminous ceiling is provided in addition to the historical wall luminaires. The lighting situation can therefore be individually adjusted to suit the large number of events taking place here, such as temporary exhibitions, lectures, and receptions.

     

    • Client

      German Confederation of Skilled Crafts

    • Architects

      emhz - Architekten

    • Completion

      in progress

  • Berlin Medical Society

    Berlin Medical Society

    Berlin, Germany

    The Berlin Medical Society’s office building is an archetype for architectural lighting that supersedes all levels of flamboyance yet abstains from being flagrant. The indigenously developed, award-winning, dynamic color changing RGB office luminaire with an individualized choice of light and color plays the dual role of lighting the work-places and the façade. This sublime approach creates an alleviating and soothing atmosphere that caters to human needs of physical, emotional and psychological feeling of well-being. This futuristic and clairvoyant corporate lighting concept uses colored light as a paradigmatic healing element that bestows a surrealistic aura to the entire building.

     

     

    • Client

      Berlin Medical Society

    • Architects

      Prof. Hascher & Jehle

    • Photo

      Orig Hermes

    • Completion

      2004

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