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Ambient Lighting for Trafalgar Square Menorah
Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights, was celebrated from 22nd to 29th December with a giant Menorah (nine-candle candelabra) 9.5m high, in Trafalgar Square. Designed in 2007 by Mendy Levy and built by Metallica, the Menorah had been lit last year with a temporary LED installation for the first night only.
This year, the Star Events Group had been tasked with modifying the structure for an easier install and removal, and to create a new base which would house upward facing LED lighting permanently installed. Their main lighting supplier, Paul Jones of Ethix Management, approached Ambient Lighting for an LED lighting solution. Ambient's Tony Kingsley proposed the relatively new AVR Osiris 48, which due to its compact size would just fit into the new Menorah base, and following a trial at Star Events, six of the Osiris units were ordered from Ambient. These were the IP65 48xK2 LED colour changing RGBW units with 25 x 8º lenses, driven by LUD48 drivers, which were mounted in the enclosed centre structure, together with the controller. The colour-changing Menorah, viewable from all directions, added extra interest to a very busy Trafalgar Square over the Christmas period.
20th January 2009
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