Built across four glass-fronted floors, Cube provides a juxtaposition to the raft of small bars in the centre of Liverpool. The lighting design, by Neil Riley, director of Absolute, has worked this position as far as possible. By colour-washing each floor-to-ceiling window as a separate zone using the Tryka K2 LED RGB Strip Module, the message stands tall and is immediate: Cube is far from square.
The club area starts on the first floor, above the ground floor restaurant and pre-bar area lit with original lighting fixtures sourced from Italy and Spain. The first floor seating areas are illuminated using Tryka RGB Module 3 lighting units - in total 250 were used across the first and second floors providing the mood settings for the areas away from the dance floors. Riley has intentionally used the LED lighting to give a strong sense of zoning in the space.
Riley explains, "The venue has a 'wow' factor on every floor and each floor is very different, so as you move through the floors you're not seeing anything you've seen before - it s all new and very original - the 'wows' get louder as you pass through each floor."
On the second floor the tempo is taken higher with funky house and the lighting response follows suit. Where Martin Krypton 575 moving heads, MX-10 Extreme scanners & Wizard Extremes occupy the dance floor, Tryka Module 3 LED units are used to colourful effect behind bars and in seating booth areas.
The top floor VIP area is exclusively Tryka LED-lit and again, Module 3 LED units are used, but in this area to execute a chilled out mood, completed by an oversized fibre optic chandelier which forms the centrepiece of the room. Four Tryka IP68-rated Module 36s create the colourful flood wash for the adjoining roof terrace.
(Jim Evans)
