Hong Kong - The architectural style of Kowloon is influenced by the busy commercial activity: the main streets are dominated by contemporary buildings, illuminated night and day to attract the attention of visitors and buyers.

The Toy House, a recently renovated building hosting offices in Kowloon's Canton Road, features a LED installation fitted by K&C Creation in collaboration with the owner. A wall of LED lights, behind 84 square glass panels, transform its façade in a sort of luminous matrix. Each panel is rear-lit by three SGM Palco 3 White LED with 25° lens, apart from the smaller ones, in the top and bottom rows, for which 40° lenses were chosen.

Palco 3 White LED can reproduce a colour temperature that goes from 2,000°K to 6,700°K: the lights behind the translucent cladding thus play on variations of tone ranging from absolute white to amber. During the week, the façade is completely illuminated on alternate days by one of these two colours, or both, with a checkerboard effect. On Sundays, the colours change.

(Jim Evans)


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