Tv Tower
St. Petersburg, Russia - 2008
Space Cannon responsible for the project of illuminating the TV Tower in St. Petersburg.
Designer: Willem Brouwer.
Project manager: Gianni Vista, Sales Manager Space Cannon Russia.
Space Cannon products: 38 Titan 4000 W, 24 Focus 1200 W, 4 Ireos 7000 W.
The St. Petersburg TV Tower, built in 1962, was the first radio-television communication aerial in the Soviet Union. 310 metres high, it consists of a central tower surrounded by steel latticework. The tower also has an observation platform at a height of 191 metres.
Lighting of the tower was donated by Rustam Tariko, founder and owner of Russian Standard, a leading Russian vodka distillery, to the city of St. Petersburg, in the person of the governor Valentina Matvienko.
"From culture to tourism, from industry to high-tech componentsâ€, said Matvienko, "St. Petersburg is undergoing an extraordinary transformation and intensive development.†The governor is involved in a series of schemes aimed at adding value and modernising the city.
The tower lighting concept was designed by the architect Willem Brouwer, in collaboration with Space Cannon.
The lighting technology solution highlights both the central part which is illuminated from the base by thirty 4000W Titan projectors with colour change, and the steel framework which glows in the light and intense colours of the twenty-four 1200W Focus spotlights, positioned at the six corners of the structure. A further eight 4000W Titan luminaires, placed at a distance in groups of two, illuminate the upper part of the tower.
Four Ireos luminaires with 7000W xenon lamps and a luminous flux of approximately 350,000 lm, with a mobile robotic head, placed at the top of the tower, project beams of white light in a radial pattern into the sky, visible from a distance of several kilometres.
The official inauguration of the tower lighting was on 6 June 2008, attended by the political authorities of the city of St. Petersburg led by the governor Matvienko, the Minister of Finance and the Russian Deputy Premier, in addition to numerous spectators attending the event.
The body of the tower and tie rods are illuminated by coloured light diffused by Titan projectors with xenon lamps and Focus spotlights with metal halide lamps, used for important architectural installations and events famous all over the world such as the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, the Colpatria skyscraper in Bogotà¡, the Nanjing bridge, The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and the XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006.
