SGM delivers light modernisation for Palace of Arts

Its previous colour-changing lighting system, installed a decade ago, had become outdated and did not provide the deep, highly saturated colouration desired by the architect. Therefore, with TriGránit Management Ingatlankezelö és Hasznosító Kft. on board as investor, a tender was initiated for modernisation of the façade lighting system, which SGM won clearly by engaging with local distributor, Zaj System House Trading.

Their executive director, Tamás Fazekas, explains: “As this is a stand-alone building on the banks of the Danube, which is bordered by one of the busiest bridges in the city, all of the façades are of equal importance and the lighting system must concentrate on each of them without any exclusion.”

Different lighting manufacturers participated in the tender bid and thus a shootout was held last autumn on two chilly evenings where the products were put through their paces. Zaj System House submitted a complete projection design for the shootout in cooperation with Mr. László Vértessy, owner of Tissy Lighting Ltd. “The dominance of the SGM P-5 was unquestionable from the beginning,” says Tamás Fazekas. “No other product had such lighting power, which was very important because of the high level of surrounding street lighting and light pollution coming from different sources.”

He continues: “The best minute came when Mr. Csaba Káel, the Chief Executive Officer of Müpa, and Mr. Zoboki came to check the demo; they were excited and happy, realising how nice their building would look with the new illumination technology.”

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