Project Showcase

Urbis have installed a lighting column that has turned a few heads in Hull town centre. By using a clever mix of blue and white LEDs built into a multicoloured column.

The tower sits on the corner of Spring Bank and Ferensway, and is part of the new Britannia Square fronting Britannia House. The square was designed by the city council’s Design Practice, and also includes a fountain, and a garden with a serpentine bench created by local artist Tracey Heyes. It is all part of a wider regeneration scheme being undertaken in the Spring Bank area.

Background

The tower is 11.5 metres tall and has 10 stainless steel LED rings built into it. Each ring contains 12 LEDs, 60 blue LEDs with frosted lenses light up the pigeon blue sections of the column, whilst 60 white LEDs with yellow lenses illuminate the white sections of the column.

The first LED ring is approximately 3.3 metres above ground level. The next ring is 0.5 metres above the first, the third ring is 1 metre the second. This pattern then repeats itself up the remaining height of the column. Each LED is tilted towards the column by 10 degrees to achieve the desired spread of light onto the column.

There is also a cast aluminium ring 1.4 metres above ground level. This shows off a raised detail of Hull City Council’s logo, which is repeated 18 times all the way around the ring. The surface of each logo was polished before the ring was anodised, to protect it against corrosion.

Luminaires Used

• LED Luminaires