Radisson Hotel Goes Selecon

When the owners of the new Radisson Hotel in Sandton were looking for excellent lighting consultants for their new project, the Sandton Isle, the obvious choice was to contract both Joao Vegas from Paul Pamboukian and Associates and Declan Randall from Congo Blue Design.

Just as obvious a choice for Joao and Declan when fixing on a solution, was to look to the Selecon Acclaim range of discharge fixtures which they had used so successfully in the past.

Their brief was to light up the public areas of the Santon Isle, including lighting a range of metal spheres in a towering atrium reaching 11 storeys high. The light fixtures had to be totally inconspicuous and able to provide real punch through the vast space.

Based on price-to-performance and running costs, Joao and Declan selected 8 x 150w Metal Halide Selecon Acclaim profiles to light the steel spheres, with the addition of gobos on some units to provide breakup patterns on the ceiling and walls.

To complement the white fittings and make the installation as neat and as unobtrusive as possible, Joao and Declan asked Electrosonic to provide custom-made white L-shaped brackets with internal power wiring. Although the brackets went through numerous design and sample changes, a satisfactory solution was eventually achieved and the lighting result was everything Joao, Declan and the client had dreamed it would be.