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3LR Lighting Strengthens Team with Appointment of Karoliina Helin as In-House Architectural Lighting Designer 3LR is delighted to announce that, as of Monday 16th September, Karoliina Helin will be joining the team as their in-house Architectural Lighting Designer. A native of Finland, Karoliina’s lighting career started after she graduated from UWE with a degree in Interior Architecture. Realising the power that lighting could [...]

Well there we have it – another year, another PLASA Show! As those of you reading this will no doubt know, PLASA is one of the most important dates in the entertainment technology calendar. Over the course of three days, more than an estimated 6,000 industry professionals head over to Olympia London to engage with over 200 brands, network, attend seminars and see [...]

Founded in 1874, the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) is Ireland’s oldest musical teaching institution. Located in the heart of Dublin, it is ranked in the top 50 institutions in the world for the performing arts and trains gifted musicians for careers in music performance, composition and pedagogy. To mark the institutions 175th anniversary, it recently opened a brand-new RIAM Campus which [...]

As it just over a year since she joined the company, we’ve asked our Project Manager Sandra James to write a blog letting our customers know more about her role at 3LR, her highlights over the past twelve months as well as what most excites her about the future of the company… Prior to joining 3LR, I’d never actually worked in what you’d [...]

I’ve always been fascinated by the effect lighting has, and will always have, on us as people and I think it’s important we also make others aware – so that they too can experience its transformative power. Matt Lloyd - Founder 3LR Lighting For me, lighting has been a lifelong passion. In a career spanning 38 years and working across thousands of venues, [...]

ETC architectural lighting and power control has been selected for the refurbishment of major music and arts venue Bristol Beacon. Specialist systems integrator and ETC dealer LSI Projects installed the lighting fixtures and power systems including ETC ArcSystem fixtures, Echo and Paradigm, F-Drive, Sensor3 and ColorSource ThruPower power controls, Response networking and more. Hailed as ‘one of the great cultural icons of modern-day [...]

3LR Lighting played a central role in specifying a new house lighting system for the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM) in Dublin. One of Europe's oldest and most prestigious music conservatoires, RIAM recently undertook an expansion and technical upgrade to mark its 150th anniversary. As part of this, its 309-capacity Whyte Recital Hall has a new ArcSystem LED house lighting from ETC [...]

We are delighted that Sandra James joins us as a project manager at 3LR Projects. Sandra joined 3LR having worked in the construction industry for over 20 years as a chartered surveyor with JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) specialising in commercial property. Sandra has a Batchelor of Science (BSc) Hons degree in Building Surveying and was a chartered member of RICS (Royal institute of [...]

Bobsledding, a thrilling winter sport that combines speed, precision, and teamwork, has captured the hearts of both athletes and spectators. From the adrenaline rush of the start to the precision of navigating the icy track, bobsledding offers a unique and exciting experience. 3LR are stoke to be sponsoring Jens Hullah, a 23 year old athlete in the Great Britain Bobsleigh Team.     [...]

OLD FLAME Unfazed by the challenge of limited resources, cinematographer Eleanor Bowman ISC used natural light and candlelit compositions to her advantage to lend an eerie suspense to Irish period piece Lies We Tell. J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1864 Gothic thriller Uncle Silas is given a feisty, feminist retelling in Lies We Tell. Orphaned heiress Maud (Agnes O’Casey) comes under the guardianship of her shifty Uncle Silas [...]