CHAUVET Professional Decorates The National Building Museum

The National Building Museum hosted The Bozzuto Management Company’s employee awards ceremony using a lighting design with over 120 CHAUVET Professional LED fixtures.

Brett Angstadt of Showtime Sound designed the lighting arrangements for the festivities.

“When you create an event design in a building like this, it’s obviously very exciting,” said Angstadt. “At the same time, however, this is also a corporate event—so your design has to take that into account. You can’t simply light the building as a museum; you have to take care of the event aspect of the evening, which is why you need to have very flexible fixtures.”

Angstadt used 20 of the 60 Rogue R2 Washes in his rig, positioning them on the upstage and downstage truss for stage wash. He used another 32 Rogue R2 Washes around the building’s 80-foot-high Corinthian columns to provide uplighting.

“We had no problem covering the column with light thanks to the Rogue’s throw distance,” he said. “Light from the Rogues reached all the way up to the ceiling when we wanted it to, but sometimes we elected to illuminate only part of the columns for a more subtle look. When we washed the columns in color, they glowed quite vividly – it was really impressive.”

In addition, a collection of 24 WELL Quad-M battery powered fixtures were used to light smaller structures in the hall. Other CHAUVET fixtures used for the ceremony include 20 pixel mapped Nexus 4×4 COB LED panels, STRIKE 4 fixtures, and eight STRIKE 4 multi formatted fixtures.

“I had the Nexus panels on vertical pipe towers outside and between the three video walls,” he explained. “I used them for architecture and as eye candy to engage the crowd during the party.”