GLOOM DISPERSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 103, 22 July 1927, Page 11 (Supplement)

GLOOM DISPERSES

FLOODS OF RADIANCE DIFFUSED LIGHT ON BUILDINGS LIGHT is a never-failing magnet for the human eye. An infant’s first instinctive action will be to raise tremulous hands and crow aspiringlv toward the light, and in the same fashion an illuminated building attracts the gaze of the grown man.

JJ’OTHING is more conspicuous than a lighted building in dark surroundings. Sweet are the uses of advertisement, and many the forms in which it finds expression, so it is not surprising that the prominence to be achieved by the Hood-lighting of buildings has attracted seekers of publicity. Moreover, floodlighting creates nearly always a pleasant effect, and often serves to illuminate striking architectural features. The flood-lighting of buildings, often to give them prominence, for publicity purposes, has been practised extensively in Auckland. BRIGHTENED FACADES Notable installations are those which illuminate the facades of the Regent and Majestic Theatres, John Court’s building in Queen Street, and George Court, Ltd.’s, building in Karangahape Road. Noting appreciatively the arresting •ffect achieved by flood-lighting of the fronts of these structures, the layman

is yet apt to dismiss the responsible system with no more than a passing thought. Many believe that floodlighting is only a casual business; that a few “spotlights” are perched at random in positions whence their rays ■will shine on the building; and that the installation of the lights is not a matter any special study. On the contrary, the fact is that flood-lighting is a highly important brunch of the illuminating engineer's profession. Its thorough application demands a study of abstruse sciences, and the technical details baffle the uninitiated. INTRODUCTION OF SYSTEM It is difficult to assign a definite date to the introduction of floodfighting for commercial purposes or otherwise, since for many years there has been a desire to spread light evenly a surface, in contradistinction to the patchy effect created through the nse of a multiplicity of lighting units, but its practical development has undoubtedly resulted from the design of searchlights which can throw beams a great distance, and over a considerable amount of space. In Auckland the application of flood - fighting principles ranges from the illumination of parks and railway yards, to the lighting of buildings. It is good business for trading concerns and theatres to be shown up Prominently, but in the case of the University tower, another structure that is flood-lighted, the object is in n .° sense material, and the sequel is simply that wayfarers see the darkness beautified by a structure that, under

such conditions, seems unreal and unsubstantial, a piece of phantom craftsmanship, poised against the gloom. CLOTHED IN LIGHT Movements and memories so illuminated are given a vesture of radiance which accentuated the beauty of their lines, and some may regret that the practice has not been applied more frequently in Auckland. Of recent additions to the city’s architecture, there is one, the Dilworth building, which would be an imposing spectacle at night if it were to be floodlighted. John Court and Sons, Ltd., were the actual pioneers of flood-lighting in Auckland. The tall building was the most conspicuous in Queen Street when powerful lights threw their diffused beams across its twin facades. George Court’s, Ltd, in Karangahape Road, occupies an elevated position, and the fine building assumes an added dignity at night. Its massive bulk is then to be seen from far away, and

is one of the most conspicuous features of the city. Tinted lights for the flooding system have been adopted with much success bv the management of the Regent Theatre, a building of striking and unconventional design, which is given a charm wholly picturesque and exotic when coloured beams are diffused across its front. COLUMNS IN RELIEF In the case of the Majestic Theatre the lighting does not illuminate all the front of the building, but principally serves to throw into relief the columns which give it such an impressive appearance. All this lighting is directed toward the targets from powerful lights of anything from 300 to 1,500 watts. Usually they are wholly or partly concealed, and the beams are given the right diffusion and strength by scientifically mounted projections. Flood-lights have been installed by the City Council in Myers Park and Albert Park, and the lamps, in these instances, are mounted on tall poles or on the tops of nearby buildings. In the Auckland and Otahuhu railway yards flood-lights are being installed on lofty trestle-towers. The Wrigley building, a mammoth idle in Chicago, is one of the world s outstanding samples of flood-lighting. -Vt night its vast bulk is illuminated on every side. At some distance away, on each side, are banks *of searchlights, -7 in each set, which direct their light evenly across each face from top to botlioin of the huge building.

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