Thorn and Zumtobel Illuminate SAP Garden, Enhancing Sports and Event Experience in Munich

(IN BRIEF) Thorn and Zumtobel have partnered with Red Bull Stadion GmbH to provide cutting-edge lighting solutions for the newly completed SAP Garden in Munich’s Olympic Park. The sports venue, designed by Danish architects 3XN, features a dynamic façade and green roof, with a capacity for 11,500 spectators. SAP Garden will serve as the home for the EHC Red Bull München ice hockey team and offers multiple ice rinks for both professional and recreational use. The lighting solutions from Thorn and Zumtobel enhance various areas of the venue, from outdoor spaces to fan stores and wellness zones, contributing to a world-class sports and event experience. The venue officially opened on 27 September 2024 with a game between EHC Red Bull München and the Buffalo Sabres.

(PRESS RELEASE) DORNBIRN, 30-Sep-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — Munich’s iconic Olympic Park is set to welcome a new landmark with the completion of SAP Garden, a state-of-the-art sports and event venue. Boasting a unique asymmetrical design and capacity for 11,500 spectators, the arena will become home to two German champion teams, including the EHC Red Bull München ice hockey team, starting from late summer 2024. The venue, designed by Danish architects 3XN with landscape architects Latz + Partner, embodies the spirit of the 1972 Olympic Games with its organic design and green roof, blending seamlessly into the surrounding park landscape.

Red Bull Stadion GmbH has partnered with lighting specialists Thorn and Zumtobel, part of the Zumtobel Group, to create a lighting concept that enhances the venue’s dynamic façade and interior spaces, ensuring an immersive experience for visitors. From fan stores and team cabins to wellness zones and conference areas, Zumtobel’s lighting tools deliver ambiance and functionality throughout. Meanwhile, Thorn’s portfolio covers the site’s outdoor areas, providing street, walkway, and roof terrace illumination.

The SAP Garden is a modern venue that combines sports with world-class events, reflecting Red Bull’s emphasis on merging athleticism with entertainment. The lighting solutions play a crucial role in enhancing this brand experience.

The arena, which includes three additional ice rinks for training and recreational use, officially opened on 27 September 2024 with a highly anticipated match between EHC Red Bull München and the Buffalo Sabres from the NHL.

Zumtobel Group AG

The Zumtobel Group aims to create wellbeing and improve people’s quality of life through light – as a group, and through all its individual brands, Thorn, Tridonic and Zumtobel. As a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio, where the focus is invariably on people and their needs. The company’s know-how about the effects of light on people, acquired over decades, forms the basis for sustainable and future-oriented lighting solutions that are increasingly energy- and resource-efficient while providing the best possible quality of light. The Group is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (ATX Prime) and currently holds a workforce of around 5,300 employees. In the 2023/24 financial year, the company posted

revenues of EUR 1,127.0 million. The Zumtobel Group is based in Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg region of Austria. For further information, please visit z.lighting.

Zumtobel

Our passion is to create quality lighting solutions that deliver total perfection. We are driven by a conviction that the right kind of light can create the right atmosphere in a building at any time of day or night. When tailored to people’s individual needs, light becomes something of an experience. We are always exploring new ways to come up with inimitable and timeless designs and are inspired by a unique creative ambition. When working on the lighting of tomorrow, we are driven by our innovative corporate philosophy of continuously improving the aesthetics of light. With passion, a sense of beauty and a forward-looking approach, we are constantly seeking to use light to help improve people’s quality of life. The Zumtobel brand is part of Zumtobel Group AG, based in Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg region of Austria.

Thorn Lighting

With almost 100 years of experience in manufacturing and supplying reliable, efficient and high-quality solutions, Thorn Lighting can make light work for you. Our extensive product and technology portfolio ensures we can meet the needs of all application areas, including education, health and care, urban space and architecture, sports, office, retail, roads, and tunnels. Our unrivalled expertise and user-friendly products can also be found in the ThornEco range, which offers cost-effective luminaires for the wholesale market. Thorn Lighting’s expert staff provide first-class support for customers, whether they are electricians, installers, specifiers, end users, local

authorities, or lighting designers. So, if you’re looking for a partner committed to sustainable, connected, and responsible lighting, choose Thorn because we know lighting inside and out. For more information, please visit thornlighting.com.

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