“Everybody is called Glenn in Gothenburg,” says the Gothenburg-based architect Olle Anderson, “or that’s at least what they said in the world of football in the 1980s, but we thought it was a good name for a light with its origins in this city.” The streetlight Glenn premiered at the annual Lighting Urban Community International (LUCI) conference in Gothenburg in November 2011. It is the continuation of the popular streetlight Stockholm that Anderson designed in 1990. “Whereas Stockholm took its inspiration from older street lights and the world of train stations and factories, Glenn is a street...

Photographed in ateljé Lyktan Light Lab, Åhus, 2011.

“The nice thing about the secondary light is that you can see the design of the luminaire at night” Olle Anderson

Technical details

Glenn For cable fixing LDC for ME, position 1 620 105° 105° 90° 90° 75° 75° 620 60° 200 515600 Material Body cast in one piece and shade in aluminium. Bottom shade in injection moulded acrylic. Toughened plate glass. Cable fixing in stainless steel. Top of luminaire in cast aluminium. Connection Cable fixing: includes junction box 3x2.5 mm². Facility for through-wiring. Arm assembly and nipple fixing: Delivered with 10 m connection cable H05RN 3x1.5 mm². Reflector Asymmetric street lighting lens with 5 adjustable lamp positions. Position 1 as standard. Alternative asymmetric pedestrian and cycle...

Glenn has a sharper, more modern form than Stockholm. It is made up of a cast aluminium shade, which sits on top of a cone-shaped reflector in white powder coated aluminium. The reflector mirrors the light, which is emitted through a shade in moulded acrylic which surrounds the optics. This shade projects light downwards but also filters the light sideways, creating both direct and secondary light. “The nice thing about this secondary light, which is reflected off the powdercoated aluminium, is that you can see the design of the luminaire at night,” says Anderson. Glenn, which uses a metal halogen...