Situated between the Mediterranean and the foothills of Mount Lebanon, Beirut sits on a promontory that juts out into the sea, halfway up Lebanon's coast. The newly reconstructed Downtown district around the Grand Serail and Place d'Etoile is the city's financial and retail centre. Here, new boutiques, restaurants, cafés, and gift stores are springing up. And because Lebanese are night people, these new retail spaces often stay open into the night, which is why it was important to dress up the green well into the evening hours.
Architect Vladimir Djurovic has bathed the Downtown Garden's greenery in colour from 10 full colour mixing Exterior 200 wash lights. The Exterior 200s are positioned in the trees themselves and provide a striking multi-coloured luminosity to the inner branches and foliage. Around a central reflection pool are numerous fibre optic points uplighting the exterior basin and lining the interior of the pool itself. The fibre optic is powered by Martin FiberSource CMY 150 fibre optic illuminators and is colour synchronized with the Exterior 200s.
(Lee Baldock)
