Occupying an extremely high-profile location on the Champs-Élysées, the newest flagship addition to Louis Vuitton building portfolio began renovation in 2023. located at number 103 to 111 on the famed thoroughfare, a simple hoarding was not sufficient to conceal the renovation and interior design work on the Art Nouveau-style building, particularly in the build up to the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Monogram hoarding was designed and fabricated from brushed aluminium Dibond to emulate the famous Louis Vuitton travel case. An extremely reflective surface, the Dibond material required a completely homogenous light to avoid any perceptible color shadows or imperfections in the lighting design.

Working with clients LEDBOX* in Paris, SGM Lighting designed and fabricated custom diffusers for the i-1 Linear X, tailored specifically to the needs and design of the hoarding and its support structure. The custom design ensured that the fixtures and diffusers were concealed within the design but maintained the completely homogenous colors and whites. All while ensuring the diffusion material maintained the maximum possible output of the i-1 Linear fixtures.

Opening in 2024, the building served as the venue for Louis Vuitton’s spring 2024 women’s fashion show on Oct. 2 during Paris Fashion Week while still under renovation.

* Specialists in LED lighting since 2008 for professionals in television, film, advertising, architecture, arts and events, LEDBOX positions itself as a company that provides solutions to its customers, ensuring the follow-up of each project from consulting to completion.

The Signature Bridge is the major visual centerpiece of the I-395/SR 836/I-95 project in Miami Florida. It is a partnership between the Florida Department of Transportation and the Greater Miami Expressway Agency. The project will completely reconstruct the existing facility and create a signature bridge that will span 1,025 feet over NE 2 Avenue and SR5/Biscayne Boulevard, redefining the Miami skyline with its six sweeping arches.

SGM Lighting’s Design and Applications team worked with the lighting designers, Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design¹ and structural engineers DYWIDAG Systems International ² to create a custom solution for the bridge cable stays based on the Video Pixel Linear.

By modifying the VPL extrusion shape and cutouts, as well as changing the hybrid power and data cable length, SGM Lighting Special Projects was able to integrate seamlessly with both the lighting design and cable stay engineering without the need for extra integration or fabrication work.

Scope, coordination, proof of concept, testing and fabrication were all handled by SGM Lighting internally to provide a final solution to the design team. Over 5000 fixtures were specified. All were engineered, fabricated, and delivered ahead of schedule. The project is due for completion in 2027.

1-HLB Lighting Design is the largest women-owned independent architectural lighting design firm in the world, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Denver, and Austin. They specialize in creating compelling holistic lighting experiences that transform the way people interact with the built environment.

2-DYWIDAG Systems International GmbH of Germany manufactures construction products. The Company offers post-tensioning, stay cable, geotechnical, and reinforcement systems, as well as provides concrete accessories, structural repair solutions, mining products, and tunneling systems.

As part of a major renovation of the residential area in Gellerup, Aarhus, housing block B4 is the first pilot project in the large urban transformation of Gellerupparken. The project is an important element in the ambitious plan for revitalizing Gellerupparken. The extensive architectural task has been carried out by Transform who has redesigned a new entrance for the very Gellerup area by tearing down parts of the building and establishing a magnificent gate through the housing block. The new gate, Golden Gate Gellerup, is both a landmark and a new opening into Gellerup.

The façade of the gate is made from golden perforated panels (up to 3m tall) which double as enclosures for the luminaires. The narrow and tall enclosures presented a challenge to the designers because they needed a very power yet slim fixture to help achieve the goal. SGM Light in close collaboration with Kollision designed a unique solution fitted on the SGM VPL which consists of high efficiency reflectors which transformed the SGM VPL into a powerful grazing fixture capable of reaching heights of up to 3 meters (10ft). 

In combination with Kollision’s proprietary control system, MAP, the SGM VPL transformed from a direct view fixture into a powerful grazing luminaire with interactive capabilities. Kollision is a Danish design office specializing in interactive communication, user participation and dynamic media design to provide users with engaging experiences.