Light Up Your City With Pride

May 23rd, 2022

Lighting plays a vital role in the way people experience a city, its landmarks and architecture. Whether buildings and structures are lit naturally or artificially, lighting is the medium that can bring an emotional value to architecture – helping create an experience for the visitors or occupiers. 

Therefore, it would be safe to say that architecture and landmarks demand and deserve a highly stylized design aesthetic that pushes boundaries.

Lighting is one of the most powerful means of breathing new life into these iconic structures that can herald a new era of urban design and beautification. As landmarks evolve, lighting designers must figure out how to illuminate these distinctive structures. Here is how.

Connected systems can play a significant role in enabling lighting for landmarks and architectures to become even more energy-efficient, operationally efficient & sustainable. At Signify, we have led the way to innovate systems and solutions that offer exactly that.

One such system is our Interact "connected lighting" system. Intelligent drivers and sensors are embedded into the light fixtures to create either a wired or wireless infrastructure allowing for full remote control and management of the lighting. A remote cloud-based system can also allow multiple sites to be connected to one common platform/dashboard. It then becomes much easy to take complete control of all the lighting across multisite and countries, from anywhere, at any time. Interact offers a flexible, cost-efficient, scalable system that meets unique needs and is easy to understand and operate. It is easy to take advantage of IoT technology to suit the needs of every facility. But this is just the beginning. Interact landmark, a solution for lighting up landmarks to light up the city's spirit using the power of data.

Organisations can monitor, manage and program dynamic architectural lighting using the software, making it easy to create and trigger light shows from anywhere while simplifying maintenance to protect your investment. When coupled with our best-in-class energy-efficient LED lighting, it ensures maximum energy efficiency.

Another such example is the Color Kinetics lighting solution that empowers lighting professionals to achieve their unique visions—and inspires new engagement and interactivity that can breathe life into landmarks and municipal spaces – historic and modern – with dynamic and innovative uses of LED light. Whether you're looking to replace failing, energy-intensive garage lighting, increase safety with public garden lights, drive tourism with historical site lighting, foster civic pride and unity using innovative architectural lighting on and in government buildings, or establish a more connected and sustainable city, Color Kinetics provides advanced, comprehensive LED lighting systems that attract visitors, make cities better places to live and work, and strengthen the identity of a region.

The recently completed lighting project of the Tradeston Bridge in Glasgow is a great example of how existing infrastructure can be improved with architectural lighting and a connected lighting platform. Since its earliest foundations, the River Clyde has served Glasgow, channelling immigration, trade, and commerce and blossoming into its industrial heart. However, the riverside became a blank canvas for a vibrant new identity when the shipyards faded away. As part of this regeneration, Tradeston Bridge has recently been enhanced by a vibrant new lighting project that complements its eye-catching, wave-like structure and form. The lighting project was facilitated by Glasgow City Council as part of the City Deal' Clyde Waterfront and West End Innovation Quarter' program, which will deliver £113.9M capital investment and regenerate the river corridor for regional economic growth. The bridge's handrail has been fitted with custom stanchion lighting using Color Kinetics high-performance professional LED lighting products from Signify. The system is connected to Signify's Interact Landmark software application, which controls the lights from a central dashboard and offers the ability to monitor and manage performance and outages from a single, secure dashboard.

Light is one of the most powerful means of breathing new life into leading cities and metropolitan areas, heralding a new era of urban design and beautification. At Signify, we have lit bridges, monuments and landmarks around the world and seen first-hand the positive impact that dynamic architectural lighting has on transforming local communities and economies. The limits are defined by your imagination.