Music City is a new purpose built four-storey building, a collaboration between AudioMaster and the Prague Music Centre. The concept is to deliver the ultimate retail environment for musicians, performers, installers, technical specifiers, venue owners and managers and anyone involved in the professional entertainment and leisure industry.
Encompassing recording and demo studios, training plus conference and presentation areas, the Music Cafe coffee bar and specialist display areas for guitarists, drummers, keyboard and percussion aficionados of all types, Music City also features all the latest MI, DJ, sound, lighting and AV technology - all under one roof.
The choice of lighting fixtures was chosen in consultation with Rostislav Haba from Robe's R 'n' D department, and phase 1 of the architectural lighting installation has now been completed.
The whole exterior of the building curves around in line with the road along one side, featuring a 35m long second floor overhang that creates a passageway running along the pavement. The roof of this is up-lit with 16 ArcSource Outdoor 12, 36 fixtures.
The second floor Music Cafe has four Anolis ArcLine 36 strips, set on a slow colour chase that shifts the colour of the room as it cycles round, getting brighter and more prominent as the outside light levels fall, but also looking equally as energising during daylight.
The glass lift is also illuminated with six Anolis ArcSource 3s, down-lighting from the ceiling. "Pretty much everyone uses the lift when they are in the building," explains AudioMaster's marketing manager Tobias Shenke, "So having good lighting in there is a must - the whole idea was to lift the space - so it was light and pleasant - not a dark dingy enclosed hole - like so many elevators."
The next phase of the Anolis installation at the Music Centre will involve lighting the Conference Room, and the Music Hall, a space used for conferences, demos, presentations and live performances. They are planning to use ArcWash 236 moving heads - with 36 high powered K2 LEDs for lighting the stage.
(Jim Evans)
