Visiting Sydney? Look out towards North Sydney for the cities newest
The
sign adorns the Coke headquarters at
“The concept was in place before we moved in,” he says, "and involved discussions with
our bottling partner
The
final design features
The
sign, an aluminium lightbox, appears white during daylight hours, while at
night the logo is illuminated red until 1am, a design feature incorporated
into the plans following a special request by a prominent Sydney resident, the
Sydney Observatory.
“From
some of our floors here at North Sydney, we get a very good view across the
bridge and you can see the Sydney Observatory. Initially we intended the sign
to be illuminated white at night, but they asked for the illumination to be
red,” says Leo.
In order
to honour the Sydney Observatory’s request to remove any white light that may
interfere with their telescope’s view into space, Claude Neon, the company that
manufactured and installed the sign, had to come up with an innovative
solution.
“It’s
something that I’ve never done in 20 years in the business,” says Thomas Lang,
Senior Project Manager at Claude Neon. “We put red vinyl on the back of its
white polycarbonate base, and then filled the box with red LED lights.”
Claude
Neon completed the sign’s fabrication and installation in 19 weeks. The
manufacturing process was straightforward, says Thomas, despite the challenges
presented by the logo’s unique curves.
“The
aluminium was curved and cut into shape, welded together, and the white
polycarbonate face fitted, and then the LEDs glued into place,” he says.
“There’s about 4,800 LEDs that illuminate both signs, 1,700 on the east and 3,100
on the south.”
LED
lights have many advantages over neon. They use about 60 percent less power
than conventional neon fluorescent tubes, and each light shines for 50,000
hours – which means fewer light bulb changes.
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