Lighting - Issue 2 April 2015

www.lighting.co.uk
ONE STEPHEN STREET, LONDON
ORMS

Architectural practice Orms has transformed the former London headquarters of music giant EMI into high-end office space. To create an arresting lighting installation in the lobby of One Stephen Street, the firm worked with suppliers to develop a modified version of the Queen pendant by Mammlampa. The fitting – of corroding steel finished internally with 23.75-carat gold plate – has an exposed incandescent lamp assembly as standard, but this was replaced with an indirect LED arrangement of four modules mounted on a specially-constructed chassis behind a double-skinned opal diffuser. This provides uplighting and the diffuser glows gently. The diffuser is designed to ensure the chassis and LED module assembly are occluded from view and that any shadowing from the assembly is minimised. The luminaire is supported by hollow brass rods that effectively clamp the shade. The upper rod is fixed into a bespoke plaster-in ceiling rose. Cabling passes down through the rods into the chassis and feeds the LED modules. Drivers are mounted remotely.

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