Grand Arcade Explodes with Light and Colour by Concord Lighting

Grand Arcade, a new £120m shopping centre, recently opened in Wigan, UK. Developed by property company, Modus, this 45,000 sq/m mixed use regeneration scheme includes retail, leisure, residential and community space - and claims to be the UK's first 'carbon neutral' shopping centre.

Grand Arcade's extensive lighting scheme was designed by NRN Design consultants, working in collaboration with Concord Lighting and Operon consultants.. The project's signature lighting feature is a special LED light sculpture, dubbed the 'exploding atom', suspended on four stainless steel cables in the central atrium. This huge luminaire is 4.6 metres across and was designed and produced by Concord.

Its central component, a 660mm diameter polished stainless steel hollow sphere, contains the control gear for 32 x RGB 3x1W LED clusters with narrow 8° optics. These create internal illumination for the sculpture’s radiating asymmetric 'spikes' - 44mm diameter polycarbonate tubes up to 2 metres long, which are fitted with light-transmitting dichroic film and stainless steel caps. Ever-changing full-colour sequences are controlled by three synchronised, programmable three-channel drivers.

A number of other Concord luminaires were utilised elsewhere in this exciting new retail complex, including 70W CDM-T wide beam Equinox downlights mounted in the sloping soffit, eight metres above the floor. In other mall areas, rows of track-mounted TeQ spotlights on the ceilings add extra illumination to shop window displays, while BriteSpot downlights, provide bright, safe lighting levels at the entrances points.

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