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We explore the dramatic illumination of Princes Circus in London’s West End by Michael Grubb Studio

We talk to lighting doyenne Janet Lennox Moyer

Six lights you’ll want to try out this winter

How gobos have become the hot tool of top designers

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elcome to this special supplement on lighting. If you ever need convincing that considered illumination of the landscapes we create is worth the effort and expense, then I’m sure a glance at some of the fine projects in this supplement will convince even the most hardened of hearts! You won’t walk into one of these spaces and say ‘wow, they’ve had the lighting designers in’. Great designers don’t do that. Instead, the schemes here are about celebrating and reinterpreting the space after dark and drawing attention to aspects of the landscape that are muted during the day. The last thing a really good lighting professional does is draw attention to the lighting itself. There are some themes that have emerged organically in the projects presented here. One is downlighting, which is specifically cited by the doyenne of landscape lighting professionals, Janet Lennox Moyer, in our interview in these pages.

While downlighting is often frowned upon by lighting professionals for indoor applications, it comes into its own in exteriors. Not least because the alternative, uplighting, tends to contribute to light pollution and energy wastage if not done carefully. Different types of downlighting are used extensively in the wonderful Exchange Square in London by Speirs Major. Down-facing lights are mounted on columns and silver birch trees while low-level bollards reveal the internal routes and low-level planting. Another theme in these pages is the use of ‘gobos’. You may not have heard of gobos, but you’ve certainly seen them used in the theatre to bring patterns, shape and drama to the light. As our photographs attest, gobos are perfectly suited to outdoor applications, especially using organic shapes. And in fact, they are a form of downlighting as they work best on a flat canvas such as pathways and pedestrian areas. I suspect that once you use gobos in a project it’ll be difficult to resist the temptation to use them again and again. RAY MOLONY, EDITOR

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FIT FOR A PRINCE PRINCES CIRCUS, LONDON A neglected patch of London’s West End has been transformed into an engaging and relaxing space using light by Michael Grubb Studio

A procession of columns with triangular luminaires creates a wrap of warm light around the perimeter 1

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rinces Circus is the final public space to be delivered as part of an array of award-winning West End projects. Commissioned by Camden Borough Council, the ambition was to transform key neglected areas of the borough blighted by pollution, heavy vehicle traffic and anti-social behaviour into green spaces that provide the opportunity for all to relax and enjoy the newly designed, welcoming, natural habitat. LDA Design provided the transformative landscaped design for the West End projects and appointed Michael Grubb Studio to provide the lighting design for Princes Circus, Whitfield Gardens, Alfred Place and Huntley Street. The key focus across the the ambition different areas was to was to transform extend the enjoyment key neglected areas of the spaces after of the borough dark and create blighted by pollution, a welcoming heavy vehicle traffic ambience, enhancing and anti-social a sense of safety behaviour into and security. green spaces Princes Circus is laid out in two triangles. The northern triangle is enjoyed by local workers and visitors frequenting the surrounding restaurants and bars adjacent to Shaftesbury Avenue, with outside seating spilling out for use during the summer months. A procession of columns with triangular luminaires creates a wrap of warm light around the perimeter, which invites pedestrians from New Oxford Street into the newly created Princes Circus. The lighting design to the north was inspired by the series of mature, tall trees that create a focal point and woodland area, enhanced by the surrounding distinctive woodland planting and seated areas by LDA Design. Gobo projectors mounted at height, discretely hidden amongst the trees, project a dappled leaf effect in cool light, creating a moonlit forest floor at the base of the trees. In contrast, warm uplights carefully directed into the high tree canopies dramatically highlight their scale and form, for visitors to enjoy for a limited time during the evening. 1 Gobo projectors mounted at height, discretely hidden The southern triangle presents a grand amongst the trees, project a dappled leaf effect in cool light, creating a moonlit forest floor at the base of the trees plaza, with Shaftesbury Theatre as its

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CASE STUDY backdrop. Later this year, a drinking fountain 2 monument, originally installed to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, will be reinstated following its restoration and uplit by night, creating the focal point. Spotlights provide the surrounding warm ambience for theatre visitors, passers-by and people resting on the seated areas. “It’s difficult to choose a favourite out of the West End projects,” says Melissa Byers, head of Michael Grubb Studio, Bournemouth. “They all presented inspired opportunities to bring benefit and enjoyment to many people’s everyday lives in the centre of London. “From a lighting perspective, Princes Circus provided a great natural backdrop to work with, alongside the surrounding, historic architecture. Camden Borough Council and LDA Design supported the delivery of a strong, lit vision and this is reflected by the success of them all. “The lighting supports the vibrant, bustling night-time economy, alongside creating a woodland glade to reflect and relax in, which is a great achievement for a relatively small Central London location.” The lighting Tim South, associate at LDA supports the Design and project lead for vibrant, bustling Princes Circus, says: “Through night-time economy, our approach, we saw the alongside creating lighting element as a critical a woodland component to achieving the glade to reflect overall look and feel of Princes and relax in Circus, and Michael Grubb Studio interpreted the brief with imagination and skill. I’m convinced the new landmark public space will feel safe, comfortable and animated at all times of day and night.”

2 Lighting design inspired by mature, tall trees that create a focal point and woodland area, enhanced by the surrounding distinctive woodland planting and seated areas by LDA Design 3 The key focus across the different areas was to extend the enjoyment of the spaces after dark and create a welcoming ambience, enhancing a sense of safety and security 4 The lighting supports a vibrant night-time economy while creating a woodland glade in which to reflect and relax

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3 Project credits • Landscape design LDA Design • Lighting designer Michael Grubb Studio • Client London Borough of Camden • Civil, M&E and structural engineer Arcadis • Cost consultant Norman Rourke Pryme • Contractor idverde • Overarching West End project strategy DSDHA • Photographer Mike Massaro

Melissa Byers will explore landscape lighting in the public realm in a special presentation at the Lighting Zone at FutureScape 2023, ExCeL London at 2pm on Tuesday 21 November. She will look at the role light plays in transforming what could be a threatening environments into safe, vibrant and delightful spaces with real economic benefits. She will also take us through some of the practice’s exemplar projects where light has been transformational.

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PARK LIFE EXCHANGE SQUARE, LONDON

Lighting design studio Speirs Major has shaped a warmly evocative blend of light and darkness at a new park in the heart of the City of London

Speirs Major has shaped a warmly evocative blend of light and darkness that reveals the multi-level topography and curved landscape elements

et above the tracks of Liverpool Street Station, Exchange Square is a tranquil park within the urban heart of London. In designing the after-dark experience, lighting design studio Speirs Major has shaped a warmly evocative blend of light and darkness that reveals the multi-level topography and

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curved landscape elements, while supporting intuitive wayfinding and ease of access. Revealing the natural texture, colour and movement in the foliage, stone, wood and water, the lighting design enhances the park’s character as natural light fades: a gentle respite from the surrounding glass, steel, and concrete. A key project from the Broadgate Public Realm Framework for British Land, the park focuses on wellbeing and open access, marking an important

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the lighting design enhances the park’s character as natural light fades: a gentle respite from the surrounding glass, steel, and concrete

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milestone in their journey from an office-led campus to a mixed-use, creative environment. Reflecting this, the designers at Speirs Major opted to keep much of the lighting a low height, preserving an intimate ambience that encourages easy social interaction. At the perimeter, light for circulation is provided from columns at a human scale while low-level bollards reveal the internal routes and low-level planting. Across the multi-level site, light is integrated within landscape elements to improve legibility and contribute to a warm ambience. An even wash reveals the dark metal vertical face of the curving ‘ribbon’ retaining wall that runs through the park, while the slatted timber benches that sit up above the wall are softly lit from beneath. Slots cut into the faces of the terrazzo step seating and water feature also contain hidden light sources, creating mesmerising patterns and ever-changing ripples. The tallest elements in the park are two rows of mature silver birch trees that are lit from within to create shifting patterns of rustling foliage and branches on the ground.The colour of the light adjusts tonally with each season, with warmer white light enhancing the rich autumn leaves and bare wooden branches in autumn and winter. Meanwhile, fresher, cooler white light celebrates the green buds and vibrant leaves of spring and summer.

1 A balance of light and shadow reveals the unique topography and creates an inviting ambience after dark 2 Softly dappled light to the seating areas beneath the silver birch trees 3 Laminar flow meets a heart of light, creating a visceral scene out of infrastructure

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CASE STUDY Associate partner Benz Roos, explains: “Our lighting design focuses on enhancing the sensory aspects of the park design, including the natural textures, and changing colours of the planting and the movement of wind and water. By playing up these elements, we aimed to encourage people to slow down, take note of their beautiful surroundings, and enjoy a moment of serenity in the city.”

4 E ver-changing ripples and patterns created by the interaction of light and water 5 K ey vertical surfaces, handrails, benches, and planters all feature integrated light 6 W arm light is carefully integrated into landscape features, creating unique conditions for social interaction. 7 L ow height indirect lighting encourages people to dwell and chat

Speirs Major opted to keep much of the lighting a low height, preserving an intimate ambience that encourages easy social interaction

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Our lighting design focuses on enhancing the sensory aspects of the park design, including the natural textures

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• Client British Land •A rchitect, Urban Designer and Landscape Architect DSDHA Public Realm • Framework DSDHA • Horticulture FFLO • Project Manager Stace Project Management • Structural Engineer Arup • M&E Engineer Arup • Lighting Designer Speirs Major • Low level bollards Pharola Max by DW Windsor • Post-top and wallmounted luminaires WE-EF • Integrated LED tape Architape • Step lights iGuzzini • Integrated handrail, tree uplighting and projectors, canopy downlighting Stoane Lighting • Principal Contractor Maylim • Planning Consultant DP9 • Cost Consultant Gardiner & Theobald • Ecology Consultant Greengage • Photographs James Newton

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INTERVIEW

“LANDSCAPE LIGHtiNG CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN PEOPlE’S LIVES” Doyenne of landscape lighting professionals, Janet Lennox Moyer, shares her hard-won insights and tips in conversation with Randy Reid going to make this seem just much better. You can’t do downlighting all by itself, you need some uplighting usually. I have done just downlighting but it’s really, really difficult so it’s usually a combination of up- and downlighting. Downlighting brings you the ground plane so that you can see that you’re back home on Earth again, you know where you are and you can see around you and what your environment looks like. And because the fixtures are so far up in a tree or in a structure, it covers more territory and equally it doesn’t get knocked out of adjustment.

Randy Reid: Janet, people often refer to you as the goddess of light. Where did you get that title? Janet Lennox Moyer: The San Francisco Chronicle was doing an article on someone – I can’t remember who it was – and the person that they were interviewing said “well, you really need to talk to Janet Lennox Moyer, she’s the goddess of light”. They printed it and it’s been that way ever since. Randy: What’s kind of the current thinking these days with landscape lighting? Janet: My current thinking is now and has been for a long time, I always start with downlighting. Whether you’re mounting in a structure above our heads or in a tree or wherever, if you can do downlighting it’s

Randy: Can you tell us a little bit about your theory regarding colour and landscape lighting? Janet: I believe that the materials that we’re lighting have their own colour. The example that I always use is a red-leafed maple. It doesn’t need red lighting on it, and when they did this at Butchart Gardens in Canada it looked like the poor thing was bleeding to death! Randy: I consider myself a kind of a purist and I don’t like colour at all in landscape lighting. Janet: There is a place that I do use colour and that’s in pools. I’ve just done a mockup with a friend of mine, Kirk Bianchi, who’s a really great landscape designer. He had this idea that there must be a way of using deep blue so that you can dim the lighting in the pool enough so that you can still see reflection on the surface but in a deep, deep blue. I was very sceptical so we did a mock-up at a client’s house and now I’m showing it at conferences.

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Randy: How is the landscape lighting economy right now, is it also struggling in the face of a recession? Janet: I don’t think I don’t know anybody that’s not really busy, and the great thing about landscape lighting is you can do a little bit now and a little bit later. You can just keep adding on to it over time. You can add for years and years and years. Randy: Any more tips for us? Janet: There are two things. One, it doesn’t take much. And what I mean by that is it’s dark at night so it doesn’t take much light for your eye to be able to adjust to it over time. It takes about 20 minutes as you know. Yet it makes a huge difference in people’s lives. It really does reconnect us to the landscape at night and opens rooms for us to use at night.

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CASE STUDY

Shadow plays just as an important feature as the light itself

andscape designer Stephen Woodhams and lighting specialist Sanjit Bahra of DesignPlusLight collaborated to turn a London garden into a masterclass of restraint and balance. After all, the award-winning garden presented a perfect canvas for light. It is beautifully framed with softly up-lit pleached trees that define the border of the space. The careful placement of the light sources ensure that only the inner face of the trees are lit – making for a very low glare lighting

solution for the neighbouring properties. A long rectangular feature pool is evenly illuminated from one side with concealed linear strip lighting to create a contemporary architectural feel. 1 Spotlights within the awnings provide a focus of light on the dining tables 2 The placement of the light sources ensure that only the inner face of the trees are lit 3 A side summer terrace becomes an extension of the internal spaces with the light drawing the eye onto lit pots and a fireplace feature

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LONDON GARDEN Sanjit Bahra from DesignPlusLight has created a delightful and engaging garden lighting scheme for a London client

careful placement of the light sources ensure that only the inner face of the trees are lit – making for a very low glare lighting solution

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CASE STUDY The lighting is designed to draw the eye across the water and then up to the trees – culminating in a punctuated lit sculpture by Owen Bullet, against a leafy backdrop. During the day, the planting blends to the form of the garden. Meanwhile at night, the structural elements are lit to give it a more architectural feel. Shadow plays just as an important feature as the light itself. The dining terrace is softly lit with perimeter floor washers which define the thresholds. The terrace has been kept visually clean so the lit garden takes precedence, says Bahra. However, the

client loved entertaining, so he concealed spotlights within the awnings that, at the touch of a button, could provide a focus of light on the dining tables. A side summer terrace becomes an extension of the internal spaces with the light drawing the eye onto lit pots and a fireplace feature. The front of the house is softly lit – to maintain a sense of privacy, with just the approach to the front door and side entrances lit. “We never want to advertise a house,” says Bahra. “The idea was to just express

the architecture and planting in an understated and elegant manner. This enables the place to feel secure as you enter the property. We often integrate the garden lighting with the security system – which is often a sufficient deterrent and that way we can minimise harsh floodlighting.” The garden lighting features a control system that is designed to simple to use and understand. “It should be simply controlled with a few buttons – on full and half settings–and managed on a time clock,” says Bahra. “Any use of

The lighting is designed to draw the eye across the water and then up to the trees – culminating in a punctuated lit sculpture

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CASE STUDY a control system is purely to manage the circuits and keep the controls simple and intuitive.”

Sanjit Bahra will be speaking on ‘achieving the right lighting ambience in urban and countryside landscapes’ at 3pm on Tuesday 21 November in the Lighting Zone Theatre at FutureScape 2023. Knowing what to light, and what not to light, is key to achieving a harmonious lighting scheme in a garden, says Sanjit. The talk will be illustrated with many of the practice’s acclaimed exterior projects.

4 Uplighting accentuates the pleached trees that define the border of the space 5 The idea is to just express the architecture and planting in an understated and elegant manner 6 A long rectangular feature pool is evenly illuminated from one side with concealed linear strip lighting to create a contemporary architectural feel

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Used carefully, gobos can bring a magical touch to a landscape lighting project. Ray Molony reports 1

obos were once the preserve of the theatre lighting designer, a simple piece of kit that turns a spotlight into powerful graphical generator, capable of putting texture and patterns of light onto the stage. Nowadays, all the world’s a stage and theatrical techniques are starting to appear outdoors in our landscapes. The term ‘gobo’ originates from ‘goes before’ the optics, and denotes a physical stencil or template that shapes and modulates light, offering designers a versatile tool to transform landscapes into artful, evocative environments. Used carefully, gobos allow designers to tailor lighting effects to match the landscape. By projecting the silhouette of an iconic tree onto a path or enveloping a water feature in gentle waves of light, designers can amplify the distinctive charm of the landscape. A tropical garden? Gobos can project strong, architectural leaf shapes onto walls and paths.

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Gobos are available in an extensive array of designs, ranging from intricate patterns to simple shapes, enabling designers to articulate various moods and themes. For example, a wedding reception in a botanical garden can be adorned with floral-patterned gobos, adding a touch of romance and cohesion. Similarly, corporate events can benefit from projecting the company logo onto façades, reinforcing brand identity and elevating the visual appeal of the venue. What works well too is leaf shapes to resemble the dappled light of a forest floor. A great example of this is at the 1 At Eslöv in Sweden, Light Bureau used gobos to great effect, adding texture with light ©Werner Nystrand 2T he Promenade of Light in Old Street, London. Lighting design is by the architect Tonkin Liu with design development by Urbanek-Zeller with DHA ©Keith Collie

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PRODUCTS Duke of York’s Square in Chelsea, London by dpa lighting consultants. At Old Street, also in London, a ‘Promenade of Light’ was created by designer Tonkin Liu with design development by Urbanek-Zeller with DHA. The pavement is lit by pole-mounted multi-directional spotlights aimed through the branches of the trees. Both beam widths and colour temperature change to create an interesting textured surface on the pavement. At the Stora Torg public space in the Swedish city of Eslöv, lighting designers Light Bureau used gobos from supplier GoboPlus to great effect. The striking organic pattern breaks up the square and provides a strong contrast to the uniform illumination of the pathways. Gobos are not confined to static projections; they can also offer a dynamic dimension to landscape lighting. Moving gobos, using motors rotation or digital projection, introduce an engaging, everevolving visual experience. The interplay of light and movement can transform an ordinary city square into a captivating urban canvas, where light ripples mimic flowing water or drifting clouds, fostering an interactive and immersive environment. Advancements in LED technology and the increasing availability of lighting projectors rated for outdoors use have contributed to the penetration of gobos into the landscape lighting domain. LEDs offer precise control over colour temperature and intensity, thereby augmenting the potential for intricate lighting designs. When combined with Moving sophisticated, gobos, using advanced gobo motors rotation or projectors, these digital projection, advancements introduce an empower engaging, everdesigners to evolving visual achieve gradients experience of colour and dynamic visual effects that were previously unattainable. 3 D uke of York’s Square, London by dpa lighting consultants ©Nick Hoggett

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