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PixelArt Party at St Pancras Station
When the first Eurostar pulls into St Pancras on 14th November 2007 this will be the culmination of a project some 10 years in the making. To celebrate the incredible construction a lavish event recently took place to mark this piece of landmark engineering.
Lighting designer Vince Foster created a breathtaking centre piece for the 4000 revellers, a moving LED chandelier structure featuring 100 PixelArt video battens and 50 PixelLine 1044s. Over 100 Pixeline 1044s highlighted the enormous ground support truss and another 50 provided a chevron video wall on the live acts stage.
Vince enthuses: “PixelLine 1044s are one of my favourite LED fixtures and are constantly specified in my designs. I am very impressed with the new PixelArt video batten, the resolution is outstanding creating further design flexibility.”
To enable the guests to see the trains going in and out of the station, a piece of nearby wasteland was cleared and landscaped to house the 100m long x 60m wide marquee – and hosted a spectacular dinner with entertainment from comedian Al Murray and a performance from the cast of ‘We Will Rock You’.
The event was on an enormous scale and involved the biggest ground support system that Neg Earth has ever supplied. The marquee also housed an exhibition displaying a historical journey throughout the years of engineering and construction.
PixelArt is a modular LED video product allowing designers to build their own custom display surface from a range of interconnecting modules.
Neg Earth supplied all the lighting.
photos: Louise Stickland
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