Case study: Intu Victoria Cntre, Nottingham UK
For local people and visitors to Nottingham city the intu Victoria Centre offers top brands and great restaurants. The chosen destination for 24 million shopping visits a year, the centre has recently undergone a £42 million transformation to create a stylish, contemporary retail space that attracts top brand retailers as well as thousands of visitors.
Project brief
The centre’s refurbishment included a full upgrade of the centre and its finishes, including structural changes such as removing staircases and walkways to open up visibility, reconfiguration of space to create enhanced shop frontages, new ceilings, remodelled bulkheads, new flooring materials, upgraded customer toilet facilities and new lighting.
With the shopping centre open for long hours every day of the week, a fast turnaround with flexible out of hours installation was essential for avoiding disruption and keeping the centre operational. Long-term reliability and ease of maintenance were also important considerations, given the centre’s daily opening.
New linear lighting was integral to the centre’s refurbishment, creating a modern, bright and dynamic visual impression. To ensure a quality look and feel, achieving a constant lit effect and colour/visual consistency was essential.
Commenting on the design, Hoare Lea Senior Lighting Designer Chris Fox said: “Our approach was ‘lighting through layers’ – combining direct and indirect sources to build a visual scene with various options. With its precision engineering and 2 step MacAdam binning, we identified acdc’s Orelle as integral to this.”