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New illumination for the Mitchell Library

Situated on North Street in the central Charing Cross district of Glasgow, the Mitchell Library was built between 1906 and 1911.

In line with a recent commitment of the Glasgow City Council to see that the town’s more important buildings are fittingly illuminated, the North Street frontage of the Mitchell Library has been newly lit up with iGuzzini fixtures. As part of an overall sponsorship, in collaboration with the Glasgow City Council’s Heritage and Design Department, its Building Services, and lighting designers Light Folio, iGuzzini provided a lighting solution capable of meeting the expectations and wishes of the design team.

The new system gives the building added depth, revealing its architectural features to maximum effect and, not least, showcasing a finial statue by Thomas Clapperton on the dome; the figure represents Literature, personified also as Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and learning.

Great care was taken over the illumination of the statue, which is picked out distinctly by a Maxiwoody with superspot optical assembly. The entire system of façade fixtures was designed in such a way as to provide a source of illumination that would be invisible by day and highly effective at night.