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This new office development
located opposite London Blackfriar’s Station is now the London
headquarters of Mellon Bank. dpa lighting consultants
worked closely with SOM Architects on the shell and core areas of
the base-build project. The scope of work included the double reception
area on the ground floor (with access from both Playhouse Yard and
Queen Victoria Street), the lift lobbies, two central atrium spaces
and the external façade lighting.
One of the challenges of the project was to successfully illuminate the walls of the reception area, which were clad with polished woven stainless steel cladding. The resultant lit effect creates an array of highly specular reflections that appear to follow the visitor through the space. The red travertine-clad central lift lobby
has an etched low-iron glass floor supported on clear laminated
glass beams. In this area, our solution was to wallwash the walls
from below utilising inground uplights and from above using ceiling
recessed washlights, which in turn softly backlights the etched
glass deck when viewed from above or below. |
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