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Reflective Flow for Hitmi Property Development
Client: Beau McClellan Design
Location: Doha, Qatar
At 38.5 metres in length, Reflective Flow is the world's largest chandelier, consisting of 2,300 individually hand ground optical crystals and using some 55,000 LEDs. Designed by Beau McClellan, Reflective Flow weighs in at 20 tons (22 US tons) and is installed in the atrium of a new office building on The Corniche in Doha, Qatar.
The dynamics of the building, with a glass ceiling and two glass walls, made the installation more complicated, as the only fixing points strong enough to take the weight were in the concrete surrounding the lift shafts. Unusual Rigging and Engineering assisted the Beau McClellan Design team in the planning and execution of the installation, with Steve Porter as project manager. Steve worked with the structural engineers from Beau McClellan Design for some 15 months and visited the Beau McClellan Design studio to see the frame of the chandelier being built, which enabled him to devise the complete rigging scheme, including the design of the chandelier's fixings.
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