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Ben Franklin Bridge
  Photo Credit: Carlton Read
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Industry Sector
Architecture
Products Used:

400 C-200 Watercolor Fixtures (This system can now be specified using ColorBurst 6.)
Method of Control:


Roscoe Horizon DMX512 system


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Ben Franklin Bridge
Philadelphia, PA
As part of an overall refurbishment project to mark its 75th birthday, the Ben Franklin Bridge received a colorful makeover, with full spectrum digital lighting from Color Kinetics bringing brilliant, changing color to the deck of the bridge. According to the lighting design team at Grenald Waldron Associates, the inherent benefits of Color Kinetics Chromacore® technology made it an easy choice for this unique project. “The brightness and saturation of the color produced by the Color Kinetics lighting is just awesome, and the rapidity and liveliness of the color changes and effects you can create with this lighting is like nothing else," they noted. "Couple this with the fact that the lights won't burn out for 11 years, and we were sold."   Learn more...

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Photo Credit:
Carlton Read


Project Credits
Lighting Design:  Grenald Waldron Associates, Narbeth PA
Installation Video

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