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Infrastructure & Stadium lighting design — Guangzhou
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Sector · Infrastructure & Stadium

Light for buildings that move a city.

Stadiums, arenas, sports parks, airports, stations and border crossings — venues and transport buildings where light has to perform for tens of thousands of people at once.

Our approach

Infrastructure & Stadium lighting design, in practice.

Infrastructure and sports venues are the most demanding lighting briefs there are. A stadium must satisfy broadcast standards on the pitch, orientation and safety in the concourse, and a legible night-time identity on the facade. An airport terminal must guide a passenger from kerb to gate without a single moment of doubt, in daylight and at three in the morning. Lichtvision has delivered both — from Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 2 and Changi Terminal 4 to the National Stadium in Warsaw, Xi'an International Football Stadium, Nan Sha Stadium and the Dong'An Lake Sports Park.

These projects are engineering and choreography in equal measure. We work with the structural and facade teams from the first sketch, because in a stadium or terminal the luminaire positions are decided by the roof, the truss and the soffit long before they are decided by a lighting plan. Our teams in Berlin, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore run the photometric verification, the mock-ups and the on-site focusing that these buildings require.

Sports lighting and broadcast compliance

Pitch and field-of-play lighting is designed to the relevant class of EN 12193 and to the broadcast requirements of the governing body — vertical illuminance towards every camera position, controlled uniformity gradients, flicker-free operation for super-slow-motion, and colour rendering that holds for high-definition transmission.

Just as important is everything around the field: spectator tiers designed for safe egress, emergency lighting integrated into the architecture, and show-lighting scenes that let an arena switch from a league match to a concert or a ceremony within minutes.

Airports, stations and transport hubs

In transport buildings, light is wayfinding. We build a luminance hierarchy in which signage, thresholds and vertical circulation always read brighter than their surroundings, so the passenger is guided by the architecture rather than by extra signs. Daylight is part of that strategy: large roofs and glazed facades are modelled so that the electric lighting blends into the daylight instead of fighting it.

Maintenance drives the detailing. Luminaires at fifteen or thirty metres must be accessible, long-lived and replaceable within an operating airport or a running station, so we specify for access strategy and lifecycle cost as rigorously as for photometrics.

Facade, identity and night sky

A stadium or terminal is a landmark, read from the approach road, from the air and from the surrounding neighbourhoods. We design the facade as a controllable identity layer — dynamic for event nights, restrained for everyday operation — and hold it to DarkSky principles: directed light, low upward light output, controlled colour temperature and a curfew strategy that respects residents and wildlife.

What we design

Briefs we are regularly trusted with.

Stadiums and arenas

Field of play, spectator tiers, concourses, hospitality boxes and event scene control.

Sports parks

Training venues, sports halls, aquatic centres and the landscape that connects them.

Airports and terminals

Kerbside, check-in, security, piers, gates and baggage — daylight and electric light as one system.

Stations, ports and border crossings

Platforms, halls, canopies and control points with high uptime and low maintenance.

Frequently asked

Questions clients ask.

Do you design to broadcast lighting standards?
Yes. We design field-of-play lighting to EN 12193 classes and to the vertical-illuminance, uniformity and flicker requirements of the relevant federation and broadcaster, verified by calculation and on-site measurement.
How do you handle maintenance at large heights?
Access strategy is part of the concept stage. We position luminaires along maintainable routes, choose long-life gear and agree replacement procedures with the operator before the design is fixed.
Can one venue serve sport, concerts and ceremonies?
That is the normal brief today. We design a scene architecture that switches between competition, entertainment and emergency modes with verified light levels for each.

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We are happy to review a brief, visit a site, or sit down with your architect. Our studios in Berlin, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Barcelona cover most of the world within a day's flight.