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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Project

08/12/2011

An exemplar project for Buro Happold in terms of multi-disciplinary team working and a cultural first for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture and Knowledge will offer a range of specialised cultural, educational and youth leadership programmes and activities, to promote a positive impact on human development and culture within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Project

01/12/2011

The new Zorlu Centre will be a jewel in the crown of Istanbul. A beautifully executed mixed use development, the Zorlu Group’s sustainability aspirations for this 600,000m2 project, aligned with our own green ethos, have driven a superb example of the future of large-scale urban design.

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Project

23/11/2011

For the new Reliance Global Headquarters in Mumbai, India, HOK and Buro Happold designed and developed a 9-story, 400,000 square foot sustainable facility with features including owner-occupied commercial offices, support space,...

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Project

22/11/2011

For the City of Riyadh, the King Abdullah Financial District is a new development, being undertaken by the Rayadah Investment Corporation on behalf of the Pension Authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, consisting of over one...

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News

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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News

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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News

26/05/2011

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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News

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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10/08/2010

Buro Happold completes conversion of Victorian fish market to artist studios One of Glasgow’s best loved buildings and architectural gems has been given a new breath of life. The Briggait Building, a late nineteenth...

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News

04/06/2009

Manchester remains base for group that started out 1863 The 3DReid design for The Co-operative Group’s new head office building in Manchester has been revealed. The architects will be working with...

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