For the last 20 years, Architainment Lighting has been providing the highest-quality LED lighting solutions to the architectural and entertainment industries, helping designers to create stunning LED lighting designs across the UK and abroad.
Architainment was incorporated on 18th June 2003 to distribute Color Kinetics products in the UK. In that first year, the four-person team worked out of a small office on the first floor of a tythe barn in Berkshire. Since then, the company has grown to a team of 22 and in 2012 moved to our new headquarters, the 14000 sq. ft Roundwood House.
Over the years we have also expanded our supplier portfolio, adding ALTO, Ecosense, Lumascape, Philips Dynalite, Pharos Architectural Controls, SGM and Vexica. We also introduced our own brands: Architape, ArchiCloud and ArchiPower.
While our sights are set firmly on the future, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back at some of the highlights of the last twenty years.
Highlights
2003
- Architainment incorporated on 18 June 2003
- Move into The Old Barn, in Cookham Dean
- Maggie Norcross joins as first employee
- First Color Kinetics project: Moonscape, Plantation Place
2004
- Lee Shields, now Senior Key Account Manager joins the team as Sales Manager
- Travelling Light – Peter Freeman
2005
- First Pharos project: Glasshoughton Mining Wheel, near Castleford.
- Took on warehouse space at The Old Barn
- X-Factor Series 2 – Set Lighting
- The Deep, Hull
2006
- The London Eye
- Victoria Plaza – London
- Fire nightclub – London
2007
- Moved to Unit 6, Premacto Works, a 2500 sq. ft business unit
- Lee Chaney joins as Warehouse Manager
- The Disney Stores – National rollout
2008
- Became a Philips’ Value Added Partner after Philips Lighting purchases Color Kinetics
- Westfield White City Shopping Centre – London
- Bullring Shopping Centre – Birmingham
- Gateshead Millennium Bridge – Gateshead
- Fabric nightclub – London
2009
- County Hall façade – London
- Grange Hotel – London
- Royal Airforce Museum – London
- Madame Tussauds – London
- One Hyde Park – London
2010
- Phil Grice joins as Technical Services Manager
- Sunderland Station – Sunderland
- Media City – Manchester
- Royal Courts of Justice – London
- House of Fraser façade – London
2011
- Added EcoSense and Philips Dynalite to our supplier portfolio
- Ian Davies Joins as Technical Sales Engineer
- Signature Room, Harrods – London
- George Michael stage set – National tour
- Harry Potter World/Warner Brothers – London
2012
- Move to new 14000 sq. ft Headquarters building, Roundwood House
- Hector Machado joins as Key Account Manager
- Steve Goodyear joins the Technical Support Team
- London Bridge – London
- Heathrow Airport – London
2013
- Added ALTO to our supplier portfolio
- Science Museum – London
- Rochester Castle – Rochester
- Leadenhall Building – London
- McLaren Technology Centre – Woking
2014
- Paul Vallis joins as Key Account Manager.
- Steve Lunn joins as Mechanical and Electrical Engineer
- Added Lumascape to our supplier portfolio
- Barclaycard Arena – Birmingham
- Lexus car showrooms – National rollout
2015
- Julian Freeman joins a Technical Sales Engineer
- Purchased our first Plug-In Hybrid car
- Neil Gamble joins as Sales Manager
- Estee Lauder – London
- Crowne Plaza Hotel – Newcastle
2016
- Neil Gamble promoted to Sales Director
- Maggie Norcross promoted to Financial Director
- James Atrill joins as Project Manager
- Architape brand launched
- Macallan Distillery – Scotland
2017
- Facebook, Rathbone Place – London
- Warner Brothers World – Abu Dhabi, UAE
- High Commission of India – London
- The Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre – Kuwait
- Annabel’s Nightclub – London
2018
- Added SGM-Light to our supplier portfolio
- Lighting Design Awards – Supplier of the Year
- Apple Store – Paris, France
- Royal Opera House – London
- Aberdeen Airport – Aberdeen
2019
- Lux Awards – Sales Team of the Year
- OXO Tower – London
- Porsche showroom, Mayfair – London
- Presidential Palace – Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Battersea Power Station – London
2020
- Duncan Abbott joins as Key Account Manager
- Jubilee Bridge – London
- Selfridges Trafford Centre – Manchester
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane – London
- W Hotel – Edinburgh
2021
- Added Vexica to our supplier portfolio
- Created Archipower brand
- City Hall, The Crystal – London
- Peloton Studios – London
- Cavendish III Laboratories Cambridge University – Cambridge
2022
- Installed 122 x 400w solar power photovoltaic cells on the roof of our headquarters
- Purchased our first all-electric car
- Colin O’Neill joined as Marketing and Communication Coordinator
- Brent Cross Substation – London
- Marks & Spencer – Stevenage
2023
- Transitioned the entire Company Car Fleet over to full-electric
- David Oluwale Memorial Bridge, Leeds
- F1 Touring Exhibition – International tour
- Kings College Hospital, Hambleden Wing – London
