Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Interior Renovations

Products:
a-light: Accolade Series  
Color Kinetics: iW Blast  
Leucos: Reflex
Lighting Services Inc: LN30  
Lumid: custom LED ceiling system  

Project Team: Douglas Welch Design Associates, Proscenium Architecture + Interiors, Schenke Bawol Engineering, City of Vancouver  

Photo Credit:  Ed White

Project Description: Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre (QET) originally opened in 1959 underwent a major renovation to improve acoustics in the audience chamber and upgrade its modernist interior lobby spaces. As a classified heritage building, every effort was taken to remain sensitive to the original theatre, which included retaining as much of the fabric from the existing building as possible.

Lighting systems were replaced and upgraded to modern standards utilizing LED and new fluorescent technology where effective to reduce operating costs.

The audience chamber ceiling structure was completely redesigned and reconstructed to improve acoustics. The new lighting system features a custom multiple dropped pendant LED ceiling system from Lumid that creates sparkle and atmosphere. Acoustic panels are illuminated with Color Kinetics iW Blast projectors.