Lighting

Happold Lighting was established to provide a dedicated lighting design consultancy within Buro Happold. Working as part of larger multi-discipline teams or independently on project commissions, Happold Lighting have made valued contributions to many successful and award winning projects.

Employing a rich mix of lighting designers with backgrounds including lighting engineering, architecture, interior design, product design, daylight design and 3D modelling, Happold Lighting is able to offer an integrated service which can deliver the most effective, appropriate and creative lighting solutions.

Creative Design

Lighting is a key factor in dictating the appearance and functionality of a building and its surrounding landscape. As an integral part of architecture, it needs to satisfy the client’s aspiration and the designer’s vision, but also deliver the appropriate technical performance for the space.

Buro Happold’s specialist lighting team Happold Lighting provide a complete lighting design service, from concept to commissioning, in which creative thinking is balanced with a solid understanding of technical principles and analysis.

Design solutions need to work just as well in reality as they do on paper and acknowledge that the field of lighting design has become more complex. Changing regulations, new materials and technologies and more intricate building forms are just some of the challenges we address. By being involved from the outset, we can inform and influence the design to ensure it fulfils the projects lighting objectives.

Design statement

We explore our projects to identify their unique qualities; we consider the role of natural light, functional lighting and opportunitiesWe learn about our clients business and understand how their spaces should work. Through good design we ensure that we address the need for function, enjoyment, safety, energy use, special requirements, buildability and ease of maintenance, allowing the integrity of our design concepts to be retained and ensuring our clients’ aspirations are delivered. for enhancements.

Lighting Capabilities & Services

Happold Lighting incorporate the full range of design and engineering skills needed to create and develop lighting solutions to meet the needs of our clients. Our skills include:

  • Artificial Lighting Concepts & Design
  • Lighting Master-planning
  • Bespoke Luminaire Design
  • Natural and Artificial Lighting Computer Visualisation
  • Natural Lighting Strategies for Buildings
  • Solid Modelling & Analysis
  • Natural Lighting Louvre and Shading Control Solutions
  • Detail Lighting Design and Specification Production
  • Lighting Control System Design
  • Whole Life Costing and Energy Prediction and Commissioning

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Buro Happold

Project

23/04/2012

Opened to the public in 2011, the Museum of Liverpool is one of the world’s leading city history museums and the largest newly created national museum in the UK for over a hundred years. Situated alongside the Three Graces in Liverpool’s historic waterfront setting, it will showcase Liverpool’s social history and popular culture while setting a global benchmark for other museums of its kind.

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Buro Happold

Project

14/06/2013

The Brown School Expansion Project, currently in design, is an opportunity for Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Social Work to design and construct a building that fully embraces their vision, which is...

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Buro Happold

Project

13/06/2013

The newly refurbished Central Library in Liverpool opened to the public in May 2013. The library has undergone a stunning £50m renovation, including the restoration of the library’s 150 year old Grade II listed sections such as the facade and the Picton, Hornby and Oak reading rooms. A new repository has also been added, which now provides a home for a historically valuable archive of artefacts dating back over 800 years.

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08/04/2013

Buro Happold was part of a multidisciplinary team that celebrated the official opening of the new double LEED Platinum facility for GlaxoSmithKline at Philadelphia's Navy Yard with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, April...

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Buro Happold

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28/03/2013

Gabe Guilliams has been named one of Engineering News Record New York’s 20 under 40 for 2013. Each year ENR honors 20 individuals under 40 years of age who represent the Best of the Best in their construction and design...

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Buro Happold

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25/01/2013

Buro Happold and Schmidt Hammer Lassen have won an international design competition for a new culture centre and library in Karlshamn, Sweden. The new state of the art cultural centre will include a range of facilities...

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17/01/2013

Buro Happold is honored to have been involved in the recent renovation of the California Institute of Technology, Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory, designed by John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects.

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Buro Happold

Project

15/01/2013

The Carlyon Bay development is the largest single private sector investment currently proposed in Cornwall and offers a unique opportunity to incorporate high quality, luxury, owner-occupied and holiday accommodation, with leisure and commercial facilities.

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05/10/2012

Summer may be over but Buro Happold’s New York office is still basking in the glow of recognition as six of its projects were honored with awards from some of the Northeast’s most revered industry organizations. The Municipal...

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03/04/2012

Our lighting team receive 'highly commended' for their work on Temple Quay Bridge at the Lighting Design Awards 2012 - Exterior Lighting Category

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12/10/2011

Bring to Light is a free night time public art festival in New York that takes place simultaneously with ‘Nuit Blanche’ events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific...

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Buro Happold

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10/06/2011

Buro Happold delivers stunning new museum on banks of River Clyde From the smooth metallic sheen of the curved and pleated roof, down to the floor designed to take the weight of a steam train, the engineering design for...

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Buro Happold

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27/05/2011

Buro Happold earns a top lighting design award from the International Association of Lighting Designers awards programme, the premier lighting design competition. International multidisciplinary engineering...

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Buro Happold

Project

26/05/2011

The new Riverside Museum, Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel, is located on a dramatic site at the point where two rivers, the Clyde and the Kelvin meet, close to Glasgow Harbour. As well as providing a permanent home for collections not previously on public display, the new museum exhibits the contents of the old Glasgow Museum previously held at Kelvin Hall. Kelvin Hall was the second most visited attraction of its type in the UK, with half a million visitors a year, so the new Riverside Museum is well placed to become a world-class cultural destination.

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Buro Happold

Project

26/05/2011

Inspired by folklore, the Polish Pavilion has a striking façade that features a number of inclined surfaces designed to resemble folded paper, cut out in a folk art design. Reflecting the main theme of the Expo – ‘Better City,...

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Buro Happold

Project

16/05/2011

Our client TAG (Techniques de Avante garde) Aviation aspires to create the most modern airports dedicated to business aviation in Europe while maintaining a sense of discretion and privacy. TAG Aviation established an...

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Buro Happold

Project

12/05/2011

2013 will be seen as a significant year for the City of Birmingham with the opening of Britain's biggest ever public library. Situated in the heart of the city adjacent to Centenary Square, the new complex will replace the...

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Buro Happold

Project

04/05/2011

Part of the British high street since 1863, the Co-op is the UK’s largest mutual retailer with a turnover of over £13 billion. In 2009 the retailer commissioned a new 400,000 sq ft, 16 storey head office building in Manchester to...

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Buro Happold

Project

19/04/2011

Developing a truly successful stadium design involves meeting a number of goals beyond simply creating a first class sporting arena. The list of additional demands for the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics...

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Buro Happold

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08/02/2011

Buro Happold carries out BREEAM assessment on Pollux Tower, Frankfurt; the first building outside the UK to achieve a BREEAM In-Use Excellent Rating

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