Category Archives for city beautification
Love my tender
Singapore, 21th April 2014 In a pun on Elvis’ song “Love me tender” I reflect today on tender interviews that we conducted today for a major renovation. The thing with tenders is that it can be very messy and most … Continue reading
Light + Build, Monday
Frankfurt, 31st March 2014 On my first day on the fair I decided to set myself a task to follow during my visit to Light & Build. Over the last couple of years the development of LED has been so … Continue reading
Manila
Manila, 20th March 2014 Arrived in lovely Manila for project meetings over the next two days… I have been coming to Manila for the last twenty odd years or so, depending on project needs as well as for speaking engagements, … Continue reading
Day and night
Singapore, 19th March 2014 One of the inevitable things with day light is that at the end of the day it turns into the night! Your living or work place then has to cope with the reverse situation where somehow … Continue reading
Light projection
Perth, 11th March 2014 Playing (and experimenting) with light is really one of the magical things we do as lighting designers. Today one of my meetings was with an artist with whom we are working to develop an artwork that … Continue reading
The invisible part of lighting
Singapore, 21st February 2014 Continuing on from my contemplations yesterday, we had some further head on discussions with the project manager of one of our projects in regards to the wiring and control of the lights. The building progress is … Continue reading
Playing with light
Perth, 10th February 2014 Playing with light is an integral part of getting your design right. You can figure out a thousand times on paper or even visualise in your mind how lighting is going to look like, but it … Continue reading
Corporate identity
Jakarta, 4th February 2014 Today’s project meeting centred very much around corporate identity, in other (client’s) words, what are the (lighting) elements that really express the identity of this corporation…one of the biggest Indonesian developers. In this particular case we … Continue reading
Hong Kong style
Hong Kong, 24th January 2014 Today was spent on a kick of meeting for a new prestigious project here. I don’t know about how others experience Hong Kong and its work environment but I distinctively feel a totally different attitude … Continue reading
Inspiration
Yangshuo, 20th January 2014 Today I travelled from Singapore back to Yangshuo, the heart of the Guilin Mountains in China, famous for being featured on the back on the 20 dollar Reminbi bank notes. Over the next 3 days I … Continue reading
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