Embedded in the Olympic Park ensemble in Munich, the new Small Olympic Hall is barely visible from the outside. Renovation was completed at the end of September 2011, offering the complex an exciting new venue. The new Small Olympic Hall has the capacity to seat 3600 for sports events, small concerts or corporate presentations. This makes for a more intimate atmosphere compared with the old Small Hall, which seated 15,000.

The esplanade in Les Sables d'Olonne has been renovated to reduce automobile traffic and encourage pedestrians to use it more. This also includes the lighting, which has been designed to create a nocturnal identity for the space when seen from the land or the sea. The project was completed in summer 2011.

The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) has convened a credentialing task force to assess the prospective domains of practice and qualifications for an international architectural lighting design certification. This assessment will be conducted via an online survey and is a key component of the task force's efforts. 

The innovative illumotion multi-sense system, available from Rutronik as of now, provides an experience of a very special kind. This technically thought-through combination of animated images, high-definition displays and a brilliant multi-channel audio experience opens up the senses.

The topic of this year’s Light Symposium “Future of light and lighting in architecture” invites all enthusiasts who see the future of light and lighting in buildings as creating sustainable designs to meet the need of humans to attend the educational event at the University of Applied Sciences in Wismar from 3. to 6. October, 2012.

Fashion, art and design, some of the most famous Italian talents, will stand at the hearth of next Lumen Fortronic, the Italian LED forum devoted to solid state lighting technologies and applications which will be held in Milan on the 29th March.

NightSeeing Frankfurt will take place on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

LAMP, a technical architectural lighting company, starts off 2012 by opening a new subsidiary in Bogotá, Colombia. In keeping with its policy of promoting a close relationship with clients, the aim of LAMP COLOMBIA is to provide a closer, faster and more accessible service to the architectural lighting sector in the Colombian market.

Aldabra srl announces the opening of two new branch offices in India. The news will be presented during the Economic Times Acetech 2011, an exhibition dedicated to the construction industry that will take place in Mumbai (November 3 - 6).

LumenOptix, the industry leader in the retrofit-luminaire market space, announced Govi Rao has joined the company’s Board of Directors. Mr Rao presently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Noveda Technologies, the leader in web-based real-time energy monitoring systems. 

OSRAM, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world, announced today that Shun Li Industrial Park is the first to implement OSRAM’s High Power Modular Street Light (HPMSL) to illuminate the streets in the industrial estate in Singapore.

Selected to create a contemporary retail interior that would draw traffic and appeal to a multitude of affluent consumers, Pappas Design Studio was retained to redesign the Mall Champlain in Brossard, Quebec. The mall, which greets more than 7 million customers annually, is owned by Ivanhoe Cambridge, a preeminent Montreal, Canadian-based global property owner, manager, developer and investor, focusing on high-quality shopping centers in urban areas since the 1950s.