Grote Markt - Antwerp, Belgium

The Grote Markt is surrounded by beautiful guild houses. At night the contrast between the stones facades and the golden statues becomes magic.

Susanna Antico Lighting Design Studio aims to improve the quality of the public space in the interests of its citizens and visitors. It will do so by delivering effective lighting design focused on the quality of the night-time visual environment, the emphasis or the creation of the night-time identity and on the sustainability of the lighting system.

The lighting is designed to answer human visual, physiological and psychological needs and the city’s needs in terms of night-time economy and marketing as well as its requirements for efficient, energy-saving, low maintenance and long-life lighting installations.

Quality lighting design contributes to the livability of cities, it’s is much more than a luminance value.

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The concept

The concept consisted in: lighting the historical facades of the Grote Markt, the neighbouring streets and the four facades of the City hall, while emphasizing architectural details that had become invisible under the old lighting scheme; reducing luminances in the public space and the streets leading to it; creating a soft, warm and inviting atmosphere, in harmony with the materials of the facades.

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After the masterplan

Following the decision taken by the city of Antwerp to adopt the Lighting Masterplan elaborated by Studio Antico in 2013 and to apply it to any new lighting in the city, the city council decided to renovate the lighting of the Grote Markt – the historical market and the centre of the historical city.

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Lighting colour

The predominant correlated colour of the specified LED sources is 3.000K, bringing out the finishes of the construction materials and creating the wanted atmosphere. In search of visual interest, some items are lit with 4.000K sources such as the Brabo sculpture in front of the City Hall as well as for the roof surfaces of the same City Hall.

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