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Blackfriars Bridge – Crescent PR
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The lighting in an area leading up to Blackfrairs Bridge in London has been revamped by lighting designers Firefly using Crescent CLVS linear colour changing RGB system. Seventeen lengths of the slim profile were installed behind curved mirrors above a pedestrian ramp area on the north bank entrance to the bridge, to shine up into the bridge structure.
The lighting system was programmed by Crescent with strict instructions for no red, blue or green alone to be used, but subtle mixtures of the three colours.
The programme runs daily from 3pm to 9am and has a static gold colour for the first 55 minutes followed by a ripple of cool colours along the length of the modules for 5 minutes.
The next 55 minutes has the gold fading back & forth with yellow before the ripple effect starts. Then yellow is the static colour before the ripple again. This sequence is repeated for the rest of the programme with other static colours replacing the yellow and a cool ripple replacing the warm one at 4am.
Peter Veale of Firefly commented:
“We did the project with the architects The Facility. It was quite a tight budget project and we wanted to create an animated colour-changing design where the fittings and drivers were hidden behind the reflectors, but the effect still needed to be visible from the other side of the river. All equipment had to be durable against the elements and we knew that the Crescent CL fittings were up to the job.”
