In the world of audiovisual system design, few projects are as demanding as houses of worship. Highly reverberant surfaces, architectural constraints, and volunteer-driven operations often converge to create unique—and often unpredictable—challenges for consultants and integrators.
At this year’s Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF), the Johan Cruijff ArenA hosted one of the event’s most ambitious LED installations, bringing together nearly 40,000 attendees for a single night of music and energy.
Passionate about challenges, Jennifer Lucas and her team at Star Design Lighting recently faced one of great magnitude: designing the lighting for a gala organized by Saint Mary’s Medical Center.
The ČPP Aréna, located in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, was inaugurated in 1957 and has a capacity of 6,890 people. It is the home venue of Mountfield HK, one of the leading teams in the Czech ice hockey league, in a country where this sport is among the most popular.
The highly anticipated world premiere of the new Audi Q3 took place on June 16 at the Audi Forum in Ingolstadt (Germany), where lighting designer Chris Moylan of Sunrise Studios developed a striking design using luminaires from Elation’s PROTEUS and PULSE series.
Follow-Me 3D system successfully supported Alanis Morissette’s Las Vegas residency at Caesar’s Palace, delivering advanced lighting and tracking solutions for landmark performances celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill.
"I see the statue in the marble and chip away until I set it free", it is said that Michelangelo stated. The Renaissance genius was expressing a deep desire that has driven creatives of all kinds throughout history: to remove the external layers of expectations and reveal new possibilities.
Madrid hosted the 6th Congress of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice, a leading international event that brought together prominent representatives from the legal and academic fields.
Budapest, the vibrant and picturesque capital of Hungary, was transformed into a canvas filled with drama, colour, excitement and storytelling in one of Europe’s most impressive multimedia shows to celebrate the National Day on August 20th.
In August and September, Zummerbühne Groningen (Groningen Summer Theatre) presented Gronieken, a musical theatre production staged in a sand depot in Meerstad.
The new d&b Soundscape 360˚ system in CULTVR’s Theatre Dome, specified and installed by d&b partner Southby Productions, represents a major step forward for the organisation.
They say that experience is the best teacher and the most effective way to dispel doubts—something that Marc Brissonnet knows well. As Technical Director of L’Eden Theatre, he led the transformation of the venue toward a fully LED lighting system, a project initiated by the City of Saint-Jean-d’Angély in 2018.
Blindness, an intense, raw and visceral work lit by Christina Thanasoula, directed by Emily Louizou and premiered at the 2025 Athens Epidaurus Festival, has won two prestigious LIT Lighting Design Awards: one in the Stage Lighting category and another in Theatre Performance Lighting.
Norwich University of the Arts, in collaboration with Sony, has just opened a new state-of-the-art virtual production studio.
The historic Warsaw Theatre, located in Brooklyn, New York, completed an upgrade to a new Adamson loudspeaker system in the summer of 2025, bringing touring-grade performance to one of the city’s most distinctive live music venues.
The Auditorium of the Cartuja Center CITE Theater reinforces its permanent Meyer Sound system with an additional stack of subwoofers and cinema surrounds, ensuring a reference-quality cinematic sound.
