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Robe moving lights illuminate tallest building in Africa

The tallest building in Africa - The Leonardo, a 234-metre mixed-use property development in Sandton, Johannesburg - was lit up for the South African launch of the new Microsoft Xbox Series X console - standing out against the night sky highlighted in green by Robe BMFL moving lights, with the Xbox logo emblazoned onto the top of floors of the tower.

The lighting, crew and technical production were delivered by event technical specialists MSTARR working for event producers Penquin. The launch lighting scheme was designed by Greg Angelo and MSTARR’s Gareth Chambers. MSTARR Productions has recently been taken over by Chambers and his business partners - Zweli Ngcobo and company CFO Landy Yeatman - and undergone complete restructuring. This was their first major brand experience event.

To illuminate The Leonardo, 18 x Robe BMFLs - six BMFL WashBeams and 12 x BMFL Blades - were installed in three different locations. Gaining the required permissions to do this involved getting the agreement of three separate buildings and their management and security companies - the Benmore Shopping Centre roof parking, the Sandton Gautrain station parking lot, and the Radisson Hotel which also had fixtures positioned on its actual roof.

Two BMFL WashBeams and four BMFL Blades were deployed in each location, an operation that included manually carrying the kit up staircases in some cases to reach to the respective rooftop positions. Each set of luminaires was controlled locally by a GrandMA Dot2 console.

Three of the BMFL Blades were fitted with custom Xbox gobos for projecting onto the building, with local power utilized at the Radisson and the fixtures in the two parking lots running off generators. The set up was completed the day before the event and was also tested that evening. The Leonardo’s permanent LED architectural lighting scheme was also turned green for the event.

(Photos: Cameron Becker/Anriette Van Wyk/Kief Kreativ)

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