Moscow, Russia

The project is one of the most expansive and high-profile Philips Color Kinetics LED lighting installations in Russia thus far. More than 50 individual buildings and sites have been commissioned, representing a wide array of architectural and historical periods, façade designs, and electrical systems. More than 6000 Philips Color Kinetics LED lighting fixtures have been installed at these sites so far, including ColorGraze Powercore, iW Graze Powercore, ColorBurst Powercore, iW Burst Powercore, ColorReach Powercore, ColorBlast Powercore, iW Blast Powercore, iColor Accent MX Powercore, and iColor Flex LMX.

The extensive product catalogue offered by Philips Color Kinetics was essential in fulfilling the unique needs of each installation within the City Beautification Project. "Given the extensive lighting equipment choices available to us from Philips Color Kinetics, it is possible to give each site a very individual and fresh feel," Philips Lighting Controls, Systems, and Services Project Manager Konstantin Kuznetsov said.

Some of the project's most striking design innovations can be seen in its four identical "book" building installations. These high-rise structures feature "open-book style" façades — exterior faces split at an obtuse angle along a central spine — that face the well-traveled commercial thoroughfare of New Arbat Street. These formerly blank canvases were transformed into immersive, low-resolution video screens through a Philips Color Kinetics exterior lighting solution. Five rows of iColor Flex LMX LED nodes were installed on the façades between each floor of the skyscrapers' 23 stories, forming video "stripes" controlled by a dedicated Video System Manager Pro controller. This Ethernet-based controller can stream video content to as many as 250,000 individual RGB nodes, easily enabling coordinated video displays stretching across all four façades.