UK - Bristol's flagship venue Colston Hall has completed a £20m redevelopment project which "fuses stunning contemporary architecture with the historical splendour of the 145 year old building". This has created a range of new meeting ...
Tags: glass-fronted foyer building, Colston Hall, architecture
USA - The Lincoln Highway was the first automobile road across the United States, stretching from New York's Times Square to San Francisco. Marking the road's western end, high on a hill overlooking the Pacific and the Golden Gate Bridge, ...
Tags: Florence Gould Theater, auditorium, speakers, Entasys
Lighting consultancy Office of Light has recently completed projects for newly opened branches of Burberry and Victoriaa Secret. As Burberry opened its largest ever London store in Regent Street,Office of Light director Russell Lipscombe ...
Taiwan-Just blocks from Taipei 101(the world's tallest office building),in Taiwan's most cosmopolitan district,Xinyi,is the newly renovated Novel Hall for Performing Arts.This privately-owned mid-sized venue includes a 935-seat auditorium ...
Tags: Etc Lighting, Taiwan
Italy - Rome recently played host to The David di Donatello Awards, presented annually for cinematic production and performances. The Taviani brothers led the night and took home awards including Best Picture, Producer and Director for ...
Tags: David di Donatello Awards, cinematic production, film industry
Norway - Elektrik Solutions of Norway has supplied lighting and power control for a refurbishment of the Oslo Konserthus (Concert Hall). Some 100 ETC Selador Desire D40 Lustr+ LED fixtures have been installed in the auditorium ceiling for ...
Tags: Elektrik Solutions of Norway, lighting control, power control, LED
Czech Republic - Just under a year ago, Innovason announced a significant audio system upgrade for one of the Czech Republic's most historic cultural landmarks, the J.K. Tyl theatre in the city of Plzen (Pilsen). Built in 1902, the ...
Tags: audio system, J.K.Tyl theatre, digital mixing console, sound system
Australia - Healesville's newly refurbished Memorial Hall is now known as 'The 'Memo', a new cultural focus for the Healesville and Yarra Valley region. It has a contemporary art space, a 300 seat performing arts facility and 3D digital ...
Tags: cinema, speakers, 3D digital, live music performances
UK - The new Dolby Atmos implants cinema into a more natural and realistic sound field - providing total immersion for the audience and transporting them into the story with a lifelike sensory experience. Supporting this dynamic shift in ...
Tags: cinema, sound field, audience, audio, traditional surround sound
Italy - Nearly 300 people attended the Illuminando le Star (Lighting the Stars) conference with Patrick Woodroffe, organised by Clay Paky in Rome. The event was sponsored by AILD, APIAS, the British Embassy in Rome and the University of ...
Tags: lighting, lighting design, lighting equipment, Woodroffe
The Humboldt University in Berlin was founded in 1810, inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm von Humboldt. The institution soon became a meeting place for famous scientists from all over Europe and developed into Germany's biggest and most ...
UK - Lowestoft's Marina Theatre, now a newly formed Charitable Trust, has refurbished its 800 seater Edwardian auditorium, choosing HK Audio's revolutionary Elements install system to provide crystal clear sound throughout the venue. ...
Tags: auditorium, crystal clear sound, audio, concert
USA - James River Assembly, Ozark, recently upgraded its aging sound system with Outline's GTO line array loudspeaker cabinets as the sonic centrepiece. The new system, designed and installed by Special Event Services (SES), literally blew ...
Tags: loudspeaker cabinets, sonic centrepiece, Special Event Services
Germany - Berlin's enchanting Theater des Westens is currently playing host to a stage musical production of Polanski's Tanz de Vampire (Dance of the Vampires) with libretto by Dr Michael Kunze and music composed by the legendary Jim ...
Tags: tracking system, sound effects, music systems, vocal system
South Africa - With a reputation of putting on superb musicals for the past 35 years, the Ligbron Academy of Technology for high school students in Ermelo outdid themselves with the production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For a ...
Tags: JSF Productions, Disney musical, lighting and sound, lighting fixtures