105 Wigmore Street is a commercial office building located near Bond Street, London.
Paul Nulty Lighting Design was appointed to develop an architectural lighting scheme that complements the space’s interior architecture and rich material finishes within the newly refurbished foyer.
The foyer incorporates a few key elements within the double-height space including a laminated copper mesh wall and a large feature wall consisting of 3D prisms. To highlight the texture and geometric form of the wall’s surface, down and uplighting is integrated using cool and warm white colour temperatures. The cool and warm lighting properly accentuates the room and draws the eye through the space from the railings at the front to the laminated copper mesh wall, which sets the backdrop to the foyer.
Feature, linear cove lighting spans the full width of the high- and low-level areas, accentuating the width of the space and providing a diffuse ambient illumination. This quality of light is further enhanced by a feature Barrisol panel located over the reception desk, which aids orientation.
Additional feature pendant luminaires, which follow the same aesthetic as the linear lines of the cove lighting, are utilised over the waiting area giving definition to the space and visually lowering the apparent height, providing an interesting and intimate area within the lobby.
Large windows span across the street-facing façade of the building, flooding the space with natural light during the day. To ensure that appropriate settings for both day and night are achieved, PNLD implemented a control strategy, which allows for flexibility within the space.
Daniel Blaker, Associate at Paul Nulty Lighting Design said: "The foyer space itself is shallow relative to its height and width; therefore, it was our intention to help reinforce a sense of depth within the space.
"The foyer is the building’s entry point, the first impression, therefore we knew that the most effective way to achieve a good reception of the space was through layers of light, appropriate for every part of the day.”
