(Left) Hall of Technology showing "diaper pattern" external wall. (Right) Interior of Hall of Tradition.
ILLUMINATIONS
AT BRUSSELS
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following firms of international stature, Members of the Arcon Group are the
each supplying the components in which
ARCON FAR EAST APPOINTMENT
The Arcon Group, the largest manufac- coverage of 30 million sq. ft. EXHIBITION turers of prefabricated buildings in the lent to the area of a large city
United Kingdom and probably the world, which have been sent to over 100 coun The main feature of the British have extended their overseas service by tries in the last ten years, more than a Government Pavilion is a triple tower of stationing their own representative in the tenth have gone to South East Asia. crystal formation; five panels on the Far East. faces of three crystals are illuminated. He is Mr. Kenneth U. Thompson, who, Each panel is 40 ft. high and 25 st, wide based on Singapore, will be responsible illuminated by 900 coloured lamps in for technical advice, trade contacts and white, blue and green, so arranged that post-sales service throughout South-East they specialise: the whole pattern changes as the visitor Asia, including Hong Kong, which
he moves from side to front.
will visit shortly, and China, one of whose trade delegations has already visit- The external wall to the Hall of Tech-ed the Arcon Group in London. nology is of a "diaper" pattern brilliant-
The appointment has been brought ly thrown into relief by two 150 watt
about by the growing volume of orders mirror lamps for external use, directed on to the patterned wall. The "Perspex" from the Far East for the adaptable steel-framed Arcon buildings. Of a total Coat of Arms by the entrance is edge lit number of Arcon buildings providing a by means of a special arrangement of fluorescent lamps and reflectors.
Inside the Hall of Tradition, suspended from the apex of each "spire" are three multilight pendants, 36 ft. overall height provided with a number of translucent cylinders each with a 60 watt Daylight lamp. The displays are individually lit, supplemented by local lighting on the flags and banners.
In the Hall of Technology one part of the ceiling has recessed fittings with black skirts providing general low inten- sity while the other part has directional fittings, emphasising, by light itself, the direction the visitors should take. Again the exhibits are individually lit.
of
The Country Pursuits and Coats Arms and Flagpole are lit from pits in the ground, housing 150 watt mirror spots and protected by sheets of armour plate glass. The tiled mural alongside the lake between the Government and Industries Pavilions is lit by projecting
fittings with conical reflectors
mirror lamps. Troughton &
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housing
Young,
I. C. I. (alloys and plastics); the United Steel Companies (structural steelwork); Stewarts and Lloyds (tubular steel components); and the Crittall Manufac turing Company (metai windows and doors), with Taylor Woodrow (Building Exports) Ltd., of Welbeck Street, London, responsible for marketing, research and co-ordination.
Ltd. (represented in Hongkong by the China Engineers, Ltd.)
Largest prefabricated building in the UK. (area nearly 200,000 sq.ft.) is this Arcon-built Welwyn Garden City factory.
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