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    <description><![CDATA[The latest lighting blogposts from the Philips Light World Tour. Visit www.lightworldtour.com to learn more.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 04:56:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[´She Changes´ in Porto]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After three months and a few weeks on the road I ended my Light World Tour in Porto, so this is actually might last post as a world traveller. What this trip was and involved went beyond my expectations. It was an amazing learning lesson and a privileged experience on lighting and this will definitely remain unforgettable for the rest of my life.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:44:23 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Casa da Música in Porto]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/lisbon/casa-da-musica-in-porto</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[There are two Pritzker Portuguese winners based in Porto, the architect Álvaro Siza awarded in 1992 and architect Eduardo Souto de Moura in 2011. They have quite a vast and diverse work so without having the chance to cover everything  (I would need another Light tour just for this) I decided to pick Casa da Música (House of Music), a project by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas that has won the Pritzker Award in 2000.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:03:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Light & houses in Porto]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/lisbon/porto-light-in-housing</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[To celebrate my 100th post I decided to go to Oporto for the very end of my Light World Tour. 315 km north of Lisbon, we actually call it Cidade Invicta (Unvanquished / unbeaten city) or Porto which means literally Port from where the Port Wine takes its name from. Located along Douro River it is another city where life is very much connected to water.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:35:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Oceanário de Lisboa]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a country very much connected to water and the ocean I had several reasons to go to the Oceanário de Lisboa (Lisbon Oceanarium): as much diverse my Light World Tour has been I hadn´t covered yet lighting underwater and they have a new extension to house temporary exhibitions that I was keen to visit. Plus, I´ve been before and I never get tired of watching the fish swimming in their massive tank.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:53:01 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Light by Architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/lisbon/light-by-architect-joao-luis-carrilho-da-graca</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I met up with João Luís Carrilho da Graça (JLCG), an award winning architect who has a very extensive and diverse work in Portugal and internationally, for a short conversation on light and architecture.
On architecture and light JLCG referred James Turrel who sees light as a mean to define space regardless of the light source, either being nature or man-made technology. This is how JLCG interprets lighting in his buildings.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:37:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Home Sweet Home]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After the initial shock, I felt happy to be home. Lisbon is such an inspiring capital that is hard to become indifferent to this city. And now seeing it under a ´new light´ it seemed more charming than ever.
Inhabited since the Neolithic t is a city with seven hills crossed by the wide river Tagus and its natural port was always an important feature of the city. The river and the ocean at Lisbon doors´ are a constant presence in the city that you can actually admire from various perspectives and different highpoints]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:49:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Christmas Lights]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/lisbon/christmas-lights</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Returning back home and stopping traveling was a great shock for me. I started having the blues. On the first days I was back I dreamt that I was about to miss flights! And lying on my bed I would wake up in the middle of the night wanting to check my itinerary and my next destination to realize that I was already back home.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:23:03 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[After light: darkness?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/amsterdam/after-light-darkness</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Amsterdam was my last destination. By this time I felt a real traveller living only from a suitcase and calling home the hotel rooms I passed through on this trip. So far I counted almost 40 cities, 18 countries, 3 special regions, 33 flights, 38 hotel rooms and about 95 days of travelling!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:31:57 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Night Watch at Rijksmuseum]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/amsterdam/night-watch-at-rijksmuseum</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Light has been always important in Painting and is a source of inspiration for many artists. Netherlands was the birthplace for some of the most famous painters in art history and since I was in Amsterdam it seemed to me to be the ideal place to explore light in painting. A limited schedule and a queue that wrapped around the building made me avoid the Van Gogh Museum. This appeared to be the obvious option, but I accepted the suggestion by Rogier Van der Heide who I had met a few days before, and instead I headed to the Rijksmuseum. In here you can admire some of the art pieces by the likes of Rembrandt and Vermeer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:25:55 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lichtkunst Unna]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/eindhoven/lichtkunst-unna</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[When I arrived at Eindhoven, I couldn’t really believe, three months had passed and I was back where I started. Three months was that so? I had learnt so many things and had so many stories to tell that I didn’t even know where to start. People kept asking what were the highlights of the trip and what I liked the most and I just wanted to say: everything! I enjoyed every moment that I didn’t really want to end it like this! So with a few days in the area I took my time to relax and to share my experience with different people that were interested on my journey.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:46:40 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hamburger Bahnhof]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/berlin/hamburger-banhof</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Berlin is known for its museums but with a limited schedule Britta Hölzemann suggested if there was one exhibition to see I should experience the Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnof Museum by Tomás Saraceno. I convinced two of my friends to come along, Marcus Blum and Tina and we had an early start on a Sunday morning to avoid the crowds.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:50:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Fernsehturm or TV Tower]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This time in Berlin I found another exquisite structure that I wouldn’t mind to go again: the Fernsehturm, the TV tower in Berlin. From the 1960’s, it is a very elegant construction that turn into one of the symbols of the city. The tower has 368m and on the top there is a 360° restaurant where you can overlook the city. Some of the original decorative elements such as the wall with ‘glass  pebbles’ are still present.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:37:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is one building that I always visit every time I come to Berlin: the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church. It is a very peculiar building as the original church was destroyed on the WWII and what you can only see today are its remains. Instead of the usual reconstruction, a tower and a building were added where the church services take place. From outside this building doesn’t look like a church, only when you enter inside you can fully admire the particularity of such building.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:04:14 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reichstag]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/berlin/reichstag</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The first time I was Berlin in 2000, the city was still completely under construction. That was the first time I visited the Reichstag, the Parliament building, and going up the dome and overlook the city you could only see roofs and cranes, a symbol of Berlin at the time.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:49:28 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Michael F. Rohde on Light & Health]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/berlin/michael-f-rohde-on-light-health</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This was a very intense week of talking and seeing light in very different perspectives. With Victoria Coeln, in Vienna,  I saw light being refracted in colours; with Michael Batz in Hamburg we talked about  light as a narrative to tell a story and now in Berlin with Michael F. Rohde I discussed lighting and health, another very inspiring and important issue for lighting designers and people who work with light.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:15:37 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Christmas Market by the Rathaus]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/hamburg/christmas-market-by-the-rathaus</link>
      <guid>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/hamburg/christmas-market-by-the-rathaus</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I only had one evening in Hamburg and having had woken up really early I felt really exhausted. The 8AM flights were actually the hardest challenge of this trip. Nevertheless I met up with Markus Bruhl, another contestant of the Light World Tour and Yilmaz Kocarslan, a friend. We started up just by the Hamburg Christmas Market. The Rathaus was beautifully lit and as Markus pointed out one of the best lighting inspirations in Hamburg.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:47:01 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lunch with Michael Batz]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/hamburg/lunch-with-michael-batz</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[There are definitely advantages in being a light world traveler. I met people on this trip that I never expected to have the chance to see. I was lucky enough to have lunch with Michael Batz, a German light designer / artist that is based in Hamburg, just to talk about light.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:02:18 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Victoria Coeln]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sometimes in the most unexpected places we meet the most surprising people. At least, that was how I felt when I met Victoria Coeln, a light artist in Vienna. I wasn´t very familiar with her work but little I knew what I had been missing out. As soon as I entered her atelier and pointed out to the coloured shadows that I had glimpsed over a table, we both realised this could be the beginning of a long and fruitful conversation. She smiled back and I followed her along with Reka Vass to her dark studio. She switched on the light projector and there were beautiful colours projected in the back wall, just like a painting. This is pure light, she said.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:32:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wiener Riesenrad & Rathaus]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/vienna/wiener-riesenrad-rathaus</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[I started to gather some figures and I realised that I´ve visited two of the world highest skybars in Hong-Kong and Singapore, the world tallest building in Dubai, the second oldest world amusement park in Copenhagen, climbed one of the world most famous bridges in Sydney, stepped in several world casinos (you count), was at a tuna auction in Tokyo, and finally went up to two of the largest and most famous landmark Ferris wheels around the world:  the London Eye and the Wiener Riesenrad in Vienna.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:56:27 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[In conversation with podpod design]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/vienna/in-conversation-with-podpod-design</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since having had the chance of working on the Belgravia & Mayfair lighting masterplan in London, I became very interested on the urban scale. As an architect/lighting designer I always secretly dreamt of being able to give something back to a city by improving the quality of the urban space that is accessible to all people.   I think this comes from the idea that on an urban environment I always thought it would be easier  to reach all kinds of people and promote wider and more relevant  impact on their own lives than on a single building.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:27:48 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Buda & Pest]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/budapest/buda-pest</link>
      <guid>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/budapest/buda-pest</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Budapest is actually formed by Buda and Pest, two different cities located in each side of the Danube River.  After the unification in 1873 it became a single city occupying both banks of the river that are connected through ten bridges, two being just for trains. Most of the bridges were destroyed on the WWII but later on were all reconstructed. Due to their different architecture, all the bridges are illuminated in a different way, mainly with white light contrasting with the amber colour of sodium on the rest of the city.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:58:19 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Reality Machine]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/warsaw/your-reality-machine</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[After icy Oslo I arrived in an equally cold place: Warsaw. Suddenly my body realised that winter had arrived and from then on it had to get prepared for the cold temperatures ahead. It took me some time to adjust and because of that I think I didn’t find that many lighting inspirations. Joanna Michałowska was driving me around but just the thought of getting out in the cold, it kind drawn me back from fully exploring the city.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:15:03 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Oslo Opera House]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/oslo/oslo-opera-house</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Oslo for one night was the start of a very intense European schedule. With such short time I invited Nevena Kovacevic to be my ‘light guide’ in Oslo and choose the best lighting inspiration in the city. I was very happy that she chose the Oslo Opera House, designed by one of the most promising Scandinavian practices of the past years: Snøhetta.
It was an icy evening with a temperature of -5°C, the wind was blowing and compared to the sur-prising warm temperatures, 3°C in Lofoten Islands, this was amazingly cold for my standards. Nevertheless we didn’t give up and went exploring the building.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:33:13 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Northern Lights vs Moonlight]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/laukvik/northern-lights-vs-moonlight</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[This was the moment I was most waiting for on this trip: to go to the artic polar circle to watch the northern lights. It is one of the most beautiful natural light shows and very hard for mankind to compete with it. But only when I got here I realised how lucky you have to be to catch such a spectacle, Nature is definitely more powerful than anyone can imagine.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:03:24 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tivoli Gardens]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/copenhagen/tivoli</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[One thing about doing a world tour is that I was so focussed on catching planes and trains and following a schedule, not to mention crossing all the different time zones, that I forgot the seasons that I was in. Well, I had acknowledged autumn in Seoul but looking at the Tivoli Gardens in the centre of Copenhagen suddenly it struck me that Christmas is just around the corner.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:15:29 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hotel Proforma]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/copenhagen/hotel-proforma</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[It seemed the Playhouse was not the only place I encountered Jesper Garde Kongshau work and the designer himself. I was fortunate enough to be invited by Christina Augustesen, a Danish lighting designer to watch a dress rehearsal. The play War Sum Up – a Manga Opera on the Nature of War was performed by a Danish well known Theatre Company called Hotel Proforma.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:23:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Royal Playhouse & Copenhagen Opera House]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/copenhagen/the-royal-playhouse-copenhagen-opera-house</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Havnebadet canal crosses the city of Copenhagen and just by walking along it you can find very interesting architecture. On the harbour fronts I found two buildings that caught my eye: the Royal Danish Playhouse and the Copenhagen Opera House. Sitting almost in front of each other, these two buildings express their architecture through light in a very different and special way.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:54:57 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Your Blind Passenger]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/copenhagen/your-blind-passenger</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The first time I came across Olafur Eliasson's work was actually in London, back in 2003. I was one of the lucky visitors of the Tate Modern Museum when his 'Weather project' was set there for 6 months. At that time, I knew nothing about lighting, neither that I would somehow be deviated into such a field but I was so impressed that I still remember every detail of that moment. People were having picnics under this 'fake' sun and lying on the ground making shapes with their bodies and looking at themselves at the mirror surfaced ceiling. I felt so attracted by the light that I felt I was hypnotised by this orange and bright sun at the end of the turbine hall and I couldn't stop staring at it for a while.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:10:57 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Architecture & Nordvestparken]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/copenhagen/new-architecture-park</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[After two months away, I started my way back to Europe in Copenhagen. Sure, I was jet-lagged again and the temperature shock was enormous but the shining sun made me feel like home.
It was a perfect day to see some of the new exciting architectural projects that have put Copenhagen under the architects' spotlight and Anne Marie Lund knew it. We didn't climb the 'Mountain' but we walked around it and explored the 8 house.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:42:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Madinat Jumeirah Souk]]></title>
      <link>http://www.lightworldtour.com/blog/dubai/madinat-jumeirah-souk</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[One of my favourite places in Dubai was the Madinat Jumeirah Souk, a newly built shopping arcade recreating a traditional Arabian Souk.
The Souk is part of the Jumeirah complex where probably the most famous Dubai hotel stands: the Burj Al Arab. The day I passed by the hotel was nicely lit in various colours, although the sail like building contrasts with the traditional architecture of the rest of the complex. Actually if it wasn't for this building, you'd feel you would be somewhere similar to old Dubai.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
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