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BT Tower Logo Displays Olympic Colours During IOC’s Official Visit to London
Following on from the 2012 Olympic Bid launch event held last November in the BT Tower, the Olympic colours scheme programmed by A.C Lighting’s Special Projects division will again light up the Capital’s skyline on 16-19 February to commemorate the IOC’s official visit to London this week.
BT is a premier partner of the London 2012 Bid and is playing an integral part in the campaign to promote the Bid to the UK public and International Olympic Committee. The IOC is in London to review the UK’s Bid plans for the 2012 event.
London creative agency Rufus Leonard designed the original BT ‘connected world’ globe logo lighting concept last April and also provided the new Olympic colours scheme. Design and events company Imagination developed and implemented the original design of the lighting system. A key requirement of the system was that it be flexible to the point of a simple re-programme for special events lighting schemes, such as the 2012 Olympic Bid.
The lighting system consists of 48 IP65 rated Martin Exterior 200 CMY luminaries controlled by a 1u. high, rack mount Pentium PC networked to an MA Lighting grandMA NSP Node.
The first look sees a white crown fade into the five Olympic ring colours (blue, yellow, black, green and red). The colours scroll together around the crown for two revolutions, giving the appearance that the tower lighting itself is rotating. The colours then fade to static bands of the five colours to represent the united Olympic rings. After holding for four seconds, the colours then rotate once more and return to white, whereupon the show starts again.
16th February 2005
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