This year's Zumtobel Group Award was presented on 16 November 2012 in an official ceremony held in a former power station in Berlin-Mitte. The architecture prize for the promotion of sustainability and humanity in the built environment involving total prize money of EUR 140,000 was given to Michael Murphy and David Saladik from the US architectural studio MASS DESIGN GROUP for the Butaro Hospital project in Rwanda, and to Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou of Atelier d’architecture autogérée (AAA) for the R-URBAN initiative in Colombes, a deprived area in the outskirts of Paris.

Trend-setting solutions
Both projects could not fail to impress the jury and the guests to the ceremony because of their integral understanding of architecture, collaboration with other disciplines and non-profit organisations, and consistent integration of the residents both in the design stage and the implementation stage. “We are very pleased to be able to present these awards today to two young architectural studios acting as role models for more sustainability and more humanity. They managed to create trend-setting solutions, in particular for social problems, both in the Western world and in third-world countries. In the process, they found highly innovative approaches in collaborating with other experts,” emphasised Harald Sommerer, CEO of the Zumtobel Group, when congratulating the prize winners.

For more information on the Zumtobel Group Award and the prize-winning projects, please visit: » www.zumtobel-group-award.com

This autumn, we are again able to present a number of newly developed and enhanced LED products for a variety of applications, ranging from spotlight systems, free-standing luminaires and downlights through to continuous-row lighting systems. All highlights are now available on our website and can also be downloaded as a pdf brochure.

For each highlight, you will find a picture of the product as well as a compact summary of the product details. Further details regarding individual products can be obtained from the links provided.

» Visit our website to see our autumn 2012 highlights.

» Click here to download the Highlights pdf brochure.

Zumtobel. The Light.

Being distinguished by a German Design Award 2013, Zumtobel products once again prove their quality of innovation and design.

MICROTOOLS LED lighting system
The MICROTOOLS LED lighting system cannot fail to impress on account of its minimalist design language, high-quality manufacture and excellent lighting quality. Featuring high-quality design and excellent lighting quality, the Microtools LED lighting heads, the smallest currently available on the market, set new standards for shop lighting that complies with the most advanced requirements.

IYON LED spotlight range
The IYON spotlight range incorporates cutting-edge LED technology in a sophisticated design by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. Its flowing lines give the IYON spotlight an elegant look while ensuring perfect functionality. The unique lens-reflector system provides brilliant accent lighting with a variety of beam angles.

About the German Design Award
The German Design Award is an international premium prize awarded by the Design Council. This year, the jury comprising 30 design experts from various branches, had to evaluate 1500 entries. The awarding ceremony will take place in Frankfurt on 15 February 2013.

Zumtobel. The Light.

Zumtobel offers an extensive portfolio of escape-sign luminaires. In addition to several sizes and protection ratings, a variety of mounting options, pictographs and power supply options are available.

In order to find the right product and appropriate mounting accessories quickly despite this multitude of options, you can now use an online configurator we have made available at: » http://www.zumtobel.com/onlitewebapp. Thus, you will find the article number of the escape-sign luminaire that meets your specific requirements in no more than six steps.

Access even from mobile devices
The online configurator can be called up via any standard browser and is also compatible with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, supporting both iOS (iPad, iPhone) and Android devices.

The configuration can easily be sent via e-mail. At a mouse click, you can retrieve the associated data sheets, photometric data, dimensional drawings, CAD drawings, mounting instructions and videos as well as certificates.

The configurator will automatically recommend the luminaire with correct power supply and pictograph type for each country.

 

» Click here to go to the ONLITE LOOK web app

Fluorescent lamps are considered highly energy-efficient. Depending on the type of luminaires used and their efficiency, however, the complete system does not always work equally well. Compared with pendant luminaires, for instance, the efficiency level of the popular light lines, in particular, is critical in many cases. The City Council of Zurich wanted to know for sure and, jointly with Zumtobel, launched a pilot project involving LED light lines and an optimised lighting management system. The results are amazing!

At the Administrative Centre of Werd, the Public Works Department of Zurich's City Council converted an existing lighting installation into an LED-only installation and compared the latter with an identical conventional solution used for the same application. Both corridors are fitted with a 28-metre light line each and are subject to the same conditions of use. In the case of the conventional solution, the light is switched off whenever the corridor is not used for 10 minutes; in the case of the LED system, the switch-off delay of the presence detectors has been reduced to one minute. Because LEDs are wear-free and start immediately, there is no problem with this setting.

In the case of the conventional solution, 420 W have been installed in each corridor; in the case of LED, 187 W have been installed. This means that the installed load is reduced by
56 % - at the same level of illuminance. In combination with the lighting management system and reduced switching times, this eventually results in energy consumption being reduced by 81 %!

In spring, the LED model of the energy-efficient  » Slotlight II was introduced as a standard product. 

» Click here for downloading the study as a PDF file (374 KB).

 

The Zumtobel “Map of Light” application provides you with information on and impressions of more than 1,000 architectural projects and lighting solutions across the globe.

The app's most recent version allows access to Zumtobel's latest product highlights as well as to the company's online catalogue and, thus, to the extensive product portfolio including technical data.

Overview of the app's most important functions:

•    Function 1: Map of Light
The Map of Light shows you state-of-the-art lighting solutions and impressive pictures of more than 1,000 projects implemented all over the world, providing you with inspiring ideas and new stimuli for upcoming projects. The latest version also features a search function which enables you to search within a project.

•    Function 2: Highlights
Our projects are implemented on the basis of innovative technology and advanced design. The product highlights will always keep you abreast of all product innovations, wherever you are.

•    Function 3: Product catalogue
The mobile product catalogue has now been integrated into the app as well, allowing you access to the entire product portfolio including technical data.

•    Function 4: Contact us
Do you have any questions, ideas or suggestions? Use the new Zumtobel app to contact us quickly and easily.

How & when?
Zumtobel's “Map of Light” app is available free of charge at the AppStore. Version 1.5 of the app has been optimised for iPad 3 as well and can now be used on all devices featuring the iOS operating system version 4.0 and higher. Our newsletter will keep you informed about any new features or additional functions.
» Here you can subscribe to the Zumtobel Newsletter.
 

» You can download the free Zumtobel app directly to your iPhone/iPad

The latest version 6.6 of Zumtobel's data plug-in for the DIALux and Relux lighting design programmes is now available for downloading.
Use the data plug-in to download to your computer the current data of all Zumtobel products to be used in the two lighting design programmes.

» Download the data plug-in

Die REVIT Daten im Servicebereich werden laufend um weitere Zumtobel Produktfamilien ergänzt.

» Click here for an overview of the currently available REVIT files
The updated library of specifications is available for downloading in the following formats:

Product master data are available in Datanorm 5 and Datanorm 4 formats.
» Go to specifications in Datanorm format

The Microtools LED lighting system particularly impressed the jury with its minimalist design language and received a “Best of Design Plus powered by Light+Building” award. Moreover, the Iyon LED spotlight system and the Ondaria circular luminaire won awards for their outstanding product design combined with highly efficient lighting technology in each case.

» Microtools – LED lighting system
The Microtools LED lighting system cannot fail to impress on account of its minimalist design language, high-quality manufacture and excellent lighting quality. Featuring high-quality design and excellent lighting quality, the Microtools LED lighting heads, the smallest currently available on the market, set new standards for shop lighting and comply with the most advanced requirements.

» Iyon – LED spotlight range
The Iyon spotlight range incorporates state-of-the-art LED technology in a sophisticated design by DeluganMeissl Associated Architects. Its flowing lines give the Iyon spotlight an elegant look while ensuring perfect functionality. The unique lens-reflector system provides brilliant accent lighting with a variety of beam angles.

» Ondaria – opal circular luminaire
The design (by Stefan Ambrozus) and lighting effects of the Ondaria circular luminaire speak the same language: the luminaire's slightly concave surface matches its soft design. Uniformly illuminated, Ondaria makes sure that the outlines of LED or conventional light sources are invisible, providing a harmonious ambience.

Both the Iyon LED spotlight system and the Tecton LED continuous-row lighting system could not fail to impress the 30-member jury thanks to their outstanding product design.

The red dot design award is one of the most renowned design prizes worldwide, which is awarded in three categories. This year, 1,800 manufacturers and designers from 58 countries submitted a total of 4,515 products to compete for the red dot.

IYON LED spotlight range
The Iyon spotlight range incorporates state-of-the-art LED technology in a sophisticated design by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. Its flowing lines give the Iyon spotlight an elegant look while ensuring perfect functionality. The unique lens-reflector system provides brilliant accent lighting with a variety of beam angles.

TECTON LED continuous row system
Zumtobel's Tecton continuous-row lighting system cannot fail to impress with its unobtrusive design by Billings Jackson Design and makes it easy for architects, designers and electricians to fulfil the most varied lighting tasks using one consistent system.

The prize-winning products will be on display in a special exhibition held at the red dot museum in Essen from 3 to 29 July 2012.

The Times Square Alliance marketing consortium in New York has implemented the Valentine's Day Heart for the fourth time in a row. In collaboration with re-nowned artists and architects, the subject of love is elaborately set centre stage. BIG♥NYC by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) is the title of this year's project. The leitmotif of the installation created by the Danish architects is “more people = more love”. A single person can activate the beating heart by touching the panel set up next to the installation. The more people take each other by the hand to form a human chain, the faster will the heart pulsate to finally climax in a brightly burning heart. In this way, an impressive lighting scenario is created by focusing human energy – a luminescent symbol of love, so to speak.

The three-metre tall luminescent sculpture is made of 400 transparent acrylic tubes fitted with LEDs. They form a cube around the red Valentine's Day Heart, which reflects the city lights. The heart itself seems to hover in the air.

Credits: © David Sundberg/Esto 

The media façade of the Galleria Centercity shopping centre in Cheonan is one of the biggest in the world. At the Professional Lighting Design Convention in Madrid, the façade received the Best New Project PLDR Award.

This award is dedicated to outstanding projects in the field of architectural light design, demonstrating the importance of light design for the overall success of a project.
Zumtobel implemented this unique lighting installation jointly with renowned Bonn lighting design firm a.g. Licht, Cologne-based Lightlife GmbH, a company specialising in control systems, and the prestigious Amsterdam architecture firm UNStudio. The jury appreciated the excellent integration of the media façade into the architecture, achieved by means of LED spotlights specially developed by Zumtobel.

» Click here for more detailed information on this lighting solution

Each year, up to 3.5 million visitors come to see the Fête des Lumières in Lyon. This Festival of Lights dates back to a custom started in the year 1643. On 8 December each year, the city's inhabitants light candles on their window sills to honour the Virgin Mary.

In 2011, the Festival of Lights organised by the City of Lyon was held from 8 to 11 December. Renowned lighting designers and artists made the city shine anew in a variety of ways. Students from the Berlin University of Technology were also among the participants and, together with fellow-students from I.A.E. Université Lyon, created five space/lighting installations on the subject of “City & Nature”. In five empty stores, the installations “Crime Scene”, “Lonely Heart Club”, “The Miracle Machine”, “Nestinginstinct” and “Once upon a time there was a tobaccoshop” were implemented. The international collaboration of students was sponsored by Zumtobel.

The “Madonna of Mayor Jakob Meyer zum Hasen” (“Virgin of Mercy”), which is considered one of the most famous, most important and most beautiful paintings of the 16th century, is also the most expensive work of art in Germany. The masterpiece by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543) was painted in Basle between 1526 and 1528 and shows the family of the Mayor of Basle next to the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus.

In summer 2011, the painting was purchased by entrepreneur and art collector Reinhold Würth. The Würth collection comprises more than 14,000 artworks, most of them pieces of modern and contemporary art. The old masters from this collection are  made accessible to the public at the “Johanniterhalle” (St. John's Hall) in Schwäbisch Hall. With the entry of the “Virgin of Mercy” in January 2012, the Johanniterhalle will be renamed “Johanniterkirche” (St. John's Church), in order to do justice to the initial function of the building originating from the twelfth century.

There are particular requirements concerning the environment for the most expensive German painting. It has therefore been accommodated in a special exhibition wall. The lighting system for the Madonna must also comply with the special requirements of the nearly 500-year-old painting.

The masterpiece will be shown in a special showcase-like exhibition wall and gently illuminated to optimum effect by Zumtobel's MICROTOOLS. Especially when it comes to the illumination of artworks, the miniaturised LED spots demonstrate their strengths within minimum space. On account of their extremely pared-down design, they remain almost invisible for viewers and, thanks to considerably reduced thermal radiation, can be placed close to the exhibits.