Lighting designer Vince Foster created a breathtaking centrepiece for the 4,000 revellers - a moving LED chandelier structure featuring 100 PixelArt video battens and 50 PixelLine 1044s. Over 100 Pixeline 1044s highlighted the enormous ground support truss and another 50 provided a chevron video wall on the live acts stage.
Foster enthuses: "PixelLine 1044s are one of my favourite LED fixtures and are constantly specified in my designs. I am very impressed with the new PixelArt video batten, the resolution is outstanding, creating further design flexibility."
To enable the guests to see the trains going in and out of the station, a piece of nearby wasteland was cleared and landscaped to house the 100m long x 60m wide marquee - and hosted a spectacular dinner with entertainment from comedian Al Murray and a performance from the cast of We Will Rock You.
The event was on a major scale and involved the biggest ground support system that Neg Earth has ever supplied. The marquee also housed an exhibition displaying a historical journey throughout the years of engineering and construction.
(Jim Evans)
