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Morongo Casino Resort and Spa
Floods for desert casino
The $250m Morongo Casino Resort and Spa near Palm Springs in California has an exterior lighting scheme inspired by the mountain setting and the quality of desert light.
Architects Jerde Partnership International and Thalden Boyd collaborated with lighting designers Visual Terrain Inc to illuminate the structure at night with ambers, magentas and blues swirling and swaying like trees in a desert breeze.
Thorn OQ floodlights, supplied via Thorn’s US agent, North Star Lighting, with their narrow accurate beams (and hence less stray light) and interchangeable coloured dichroic lenses, were essential to the effect.
The colours chosen mimic those found in the natural light of the desert during sunrise, midday, and sunset.
