LIGHTING is both a science and an art, carefully cultured through study to enable a lighting professional to balance surfaces, shadows and lines and alter the perception of an atmosphere, while at the same time instilling a sense of security in the user.

THE YAS Hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE, has at least two major distinctions to its credit: it is the first hotel in the world that straddles a Formula One race circuit and at the time it was built, it was the world’s biggest LED project controlled through an RDM (remote device management) protocol by an advanced lighting control solution.

AS Teo A Khing (TAK) Design Consultants raced against time to open the world’s first racetrack-side hotel, the Malaysian architecture specialist placed its bets on international specialist CD+M to design a bespoke lighting solution that would showcase the property in all its glory. Built at a cost of Dh10 billion ($2.

LIGHTING has the power to revolutionise the field of sports through its major impact on venues, says the UK-based Abacus, which recently saw the completion of the UAE’s first fully floodlit 18-hole golf course – the Faldo course at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai.