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BXR London, the first boutique high-end boxing gym in the capital, opened this week to its new members. DHA Designs provided the lighting design, from concepts through to commissioning. The club includes a full size boxing ring and state of the art gym equipment on the ground floor, with three studios, a juice bar, spa and treatment rooms on the lower ground floor.
Lighting was supplied by FactoryLux, EcoLED, Hera, Philips and Dynalite.
DHA Designs worked on the re-design of the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield as part of the £15.7m new Remembrance Centre. The beautiful site near Lichfield, is the national site of remembrance, and the exhibition “Landscapes of Life” tells the story of ways of remembrance and collection, and of the Arboretum itself.
Working with Real Studios, DHA designed a flexible and sympathetic lighting solution, to highlight the collection and create a series of atmospheric spaces. The balance of the lighting and the AV was critical in complimenting Real Studio’s immersive design, and one visited my many who’ve lost loved ones.
More information on the Arboretum can be found here > http://www.thenma.org.uk
Photo Credit: Philip Vile
DHA Designs were delighted to work on Fire! Fire! at the Museum of London, working with Skellon Studio. The exhibition commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London and creates a theatrical journey from Pudding Lane to the Aftermath, using illustrations, setworks and lighting inspired by the period.
The exhibition, which is particularly popular with school groups, also showcases many artefacts from the museum’s rich collection of that period, as well as those salvaged from the fire. The challenge for the lighting was to engage the children with theatrical effects without overwhelming the objects and their conservation lighting.
The lighting plays with colour temperature as part of the visitor route: from twilight in Pudding Lane, to the warmth of the Fire itself, then to the grey smoke of the Aftermath. The final area is warmed up to end on the positive re-building of the city.
Photo Credit: Museum of London
DHA Designs have now updated the lighting for the Mary Rose Museum.
On completion of the conservation process for the hull, the “Hotbox” enclosure was removed allowing full, panoramic views of the ship remains.
The hull lighting was re-designed (and updated to all LED) giving a set of dramatic “looks” that (very) slowly dissolve, as well as a set of a/v presentations that project im
ages into and around the hull.
This phase of the museum design was by REAL Studios, a/v by Graham English, sound by Peter Key and lighting equipment and control by Control Lighting and Enliten.
Photography: Hufton+Crow
In Spring 2016 we commissioned a new museum for the Kuwait Oil Company on the outskirts of Kuwait City.
Having first specified this in 2008 we then had to re-work it to incorporate as much LED as possible as the original specs were metal halide and tungsten. In fact many of fi
ttings were obsolete, and we were greatly assisted in bringing it up to current specs by the team from SI Electrical.
As well as traditional display lighting there is a large amount of darkness, and a lot of black shiny floors.
Some very nice exhibition design by Event and films by Graham English.