BMW Museum Gets LED Accents During Renovation
Well, if you didn’t think BMWs were flashy and innovative before, you may just change your mind now. The BMW museum in Munich, Germany has announced that they have awarded Ledon and Lexedis, the LED specialist subsidiaries of the Austria-based Zumtobel Group, a 1.5 million EUR contract to supply the museum with an LED lighting scheme.
The new BMW museum is planned to open in Spring 2008 with a series of glass surfaces illuminated by Ledon’s 120 cm long, dimmable LED modules and 200,000 nanoXED module emitters from Lexedis. Additionally the museum is adding a pavilion to blend both open and enclosed spaces in the building.
Ledon is a EU-based company that create application-oriented LED lighting solutions for an inspiring lighting environment. They develop LED lighting designs for retail, presentation, museum, and emergency applications as well as what they call Architainment (architecture + entertainment).
Lexedis is an Austria-based company that prides itself on its world-leading competence in research and development of groundbreaking technologies with special emphasis on color temperature, homogeneous white light and color rendition. They develop LED high efficiency digital lighting for the automobile and communication industries.
July 27th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
[...] Thorn Lighting, who is leading this group, belongs to the parent group, The Zumtobel Group. As previously written in this blog, the Zumtobel Group is a key leader in both organic and inorganic LED device research and development. Ledon and Lexedis, also subsidiaries of The Zumtobel Group, are working on inorganic LED technology. [...]