Project: The Hakkasan Grid at Hakkasan Nightclub Las Vegas
Photos by: Al Powers, Yoder Productions, and Hakkasan
BOX OF WISHES developed this project with all the stakeholders below and numerous third-party vendors and consultants. From the first meeting to the unveiling, Box of Wishes provided the overall project planning, budgeting, procurement specifications, technical direction, on-site project management, and vendor coordination on-site. It has also, led the negotiations between all the major stakeholders. Negotiations lasted 6 months. Project planning and budgeting, 3 months. On-site project execution took place over 6 weeks, without closing the nightclub during that period.
Hakkasan Group:
Vice President of Entertainment: James Algate
Director of Creative Production: Andrea Frey
Technical Director: Gerardo Gonzalez
Hakkasan Nightclub:
Light Designer/GrandMA3 Programmer: Alvaro Turino Grosso
Light Designer: Renzo Cubas
Video Designer: Cody Campbell
General Contractor:
Berkeley Research Group
Director: Jeff Gooch
Box of Wishes:
Project Director: Peter Thompson
Executive Producer: Lis Roncato
System Techs: Paul Marques & Chris Kortum
Kinetic Lights/WHITEvoid GmbH:
Art Direction Kinetics: Christopher Bauder
Layout Design: Lukasz Mroczkowski and Anna Pilarska
Berlin Project Coordination and Logistics: Nuran Aykurt and Roger Özcan
Kinetic Lights Software Developers/Motion Designers: Corey Schneider and Daniel Dalfovo
Lead Engineer: Johannes Langbein
Engineering Team: Phil Helldorfer, Dominik Jaskulski, Stratos Bichakis, Markus Borrmann, Laurent Cattellat
Technical Managers: Roger Peuker, Florian Fink and Marc Liebold
Kinetic Lights Technicians: Kenneth Danielson, Francesco Previtali, Victor Zubah
Kinetic Lights Service Director: Robert Tylko
Super Structure Fabrication:
Ossis Iron Works
VP and Project Manager: Facundo “Sebastian” Ayala
Drafting for Super Structure: Edwin Gaza
Rigging:
Alpine Rigging
Principal: Brent Armstrong
Project Manager: John Franklin
Lighting and Low Voltage Electrical:
RAD Services
Structural Engineering:
Lochsa Engineering
Lead Engineer: Mohan Chippada
Architectural Consulting:
JCJ Architecture
Senior Associate: Mike Larson AIA, NCARB
Associate: Joseph Miller
Fire Protection Consulting: Nick Moriarty