Europeans went to the polls May 23-26 to elect a new European Parliament with citizens in 28
countries casting ballots in the second largest democratic election in the world. Although the
election takes place across the continent, the geographic focal point is the European Parliament
building in Brussels, which was decked out for the occasion in a beautiful dress of blue courtesy of
Elation Paladin™ LED luminaires.
Elation’s Belgian distributor IDD Concept of Brussels illuminated the outdoor Esplanade, “the mall,”
often used as a backdrop for election television coverage, and the European Parliament buildings,
the Espace Léopold, in a wash of European Union blue. IDD Concept provided all of the outdoor
technical lighting for both sides of the building, including specification of the Paladin luminaires for
the main Esplanade front.
IDD Concept initially considered using 80 LED fixtures with 10W LEDs but found that just 32 of the
weatherproof Paladin™ luminaires with their high-power 40W RGBW LEDs and wide-angle zoom
could do the job much better. DB Video of Belgium supplied eight of the Paladins for the project
with the rest coming from Niclen in Germany.
The Paladin fixtures, mounted across three sides of two separate scaffolding towers, worked
alongside moving heads and were used to project a rich,
beautiful saturated blue to match the deep blue of the
European Union flag and logo. Rain the last day posed no
problem for the IP65 Paladins although much of the other
lighting had to be covered.