CASE STUDY
Skyline Highlights Nexo Luce’s flexible lighting solutions have highlighted the four façades of the Grand Millennium Business Bay Hotel in Dubai with a dramatic, yet subtle new lighting scheme.
T
he Business Bay area of Dubai is becoming a new
The preference was given to downlights rather than uplights with the
rapidly growing infrastructure, smart urban planning
showering effect. The static scene gives the hotel a strong identity. A
commercial and residential hub in the UAE, with its
and innovative design. One of the latest additions to the
glittering skyline of the district is the 251-room Grand Millennium
Business Bay hotel, prominent by its sleek, modern architecture and dramatic, yet subtle lighting scheme.
The project’s lighting design was developed and implemented by Nexo Luce, known for its well-coordinated and flexible lighting
solutions. The Italian company’s international team of designers and engineers has been working on this project from the initial concept and studies to the supply of the overall lighting products.
Nexo Luce provided both exterior and interior lighting for the project. The exterior lighting covered the hotel’s four façades, highlighting its architectural details as well as the landscape, public pathways,
pool decks and car park ramp. The interior lighting covered technical and decorative lighting including public spaces, lobby, F&B outlets,
ballroom, meeting rooms, gym and spa, back-of-house areas, suites, guestrooms corridors, and bar areas.
During the day, natural light penetrates into the building through
the windows, while at night the 100-metre-high hotel turns into a
gleaming point of light. To highlight the exterior façade during the
night, Nexo Luce created a lighting work of art with its harmonious white and cyan colour sequence, blending with the local bay
environment and impressively underlining the character of the building.
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aim to meet green building objectives whilst producing an artistic
large role in the façade lighting of the project was given to OVO 18UN; a product designed by Nexo Luce that creates a powerful lighting
beam, equipped with an ultra-narrow optic of 3.5˚ and the ability to reach up to 59 lux at 80-metres.
The façade linear lighting in cyan distinguished the central spine
of the building. The pergolas positioned at the guest balconies on the upper levels were lit in a way to provide the necessary visual connection between the architectural features. At the hotel’s
entrance the concept was realised through recessed linear lighting
that ‘draws’ the structural lines of the attached canopies. The cyan
pin lights with elliptical lenses were evenly distributed on each side of the façade, playing the role of a bridge between the entrance and the spine of the building.
Among the other external spaces, the ramp leading to the hotel car
park is enhanced with ground linear lights, creating a continuous line effect to delimit the pathway.
In total, the external lighting plan includes more than 500 light
fixtures. While the internal spaces contain more than 2,000 technical luminaires that range from architectural to technical products used to either provide the general lighting, accentuate main functional spaces, or give more prominence to the decorative lighting compositions.
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