Commercial & Office LED Lighting South Africa | Workplace Design, Supply & Install

Bespoke curved LED cove feature at the Astron Century City HQ, lighting by Lamphouse LED Solutions

Proven in the workplace · Astron, Century City

Astron Century City HQ:
bespoke.

A corporate head office where the lighting is part of the architecture: bespoke curved coves, feature ceilings and screen-safe workspace light, designed and installed by Lamphouse LED Solutions. Real project, real photographs, and we'll connect you with comparable references under NDA where the client requires it.

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· On the floor

Real workplace
projects.

The Astron Century City head office: bespoke feature coves, corridors and open-plan workspace, lit and photographed on a real Lamphouse LED Solutions project. Not stock.

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01 · The office problem

Lighting people
actually sit under.

Office lighting is judged by the people who live under it for eight hours a day, and they notice when it's wrong, even if they can't name why. Too much glare and the monitors bounce; too cool and flat and the room feels like a call centre; no daylight linking and you're burning full power at 2pm next to a wall of windows. A good office scheme balances three things most quotes ignore: glare control tuned to screens (UGR<19), a colour temperature that suits the work and the time of day, and controls that harvest the considerable daylight a South African building gets for free. Get those right and you cut energy and the space feels better to be in.

02 · The design approach

We light the
people first.

An office is judged by the people who spend their day in it: whether they can focus, whether the space feels good to walk into, whether it flatters the brand to a visitor. So we design for the experience of each space first: comfort at the desk, calm in the meeting room, a confident first impression at reception. The screen-friendly glare control, the daylight that does half the work for free, the controls that quietly trim the bill, all of it serves the experience rather than sitting on top of it. Here's how we think about each space.

Space	The experience we're after	How we light it
Open-plan workstations	Focus & ease	Comfortable, even light that's kind to screens, no harsh glare bouncing off monitors, softening near the windows so the daylight carries the room and the eyes don't tire.
Private & cellular offices	Concentration & control	Warm, settled light at the desk that the occupant can adjust to suit the task and the time of day, a room that supports deep work.
Meeting & boardrooms	Presence & clarity	Flattering light on faces for video calls, dimmable from presentation-bright to conversation-soft, the room reads as considered.
Reception & lobby	First impression	A warm, layered welcome with feature light on the brand wall, the moment a visitor decides what kind of company this is.
Breakout & canteen	Decompress	Relaxed, warmer light that feels distinct from the work floor, a genuine change of gear.
Corridors & circulation	Calm flow	Easy, guiding light that moves people through comfortably and gently steps down when areas are empty.
Wellbeing & tunable spaces	Energy & rhythm	Cooler and brighter through the morning, warmer toward the evening, light that works with the body's clock, the spec premium fit-outs increasingly expect.

Every workplace is designed to its layout, glazing and the way people actually use it: comfort and brand experience leading, with screen-friendly glare control, daylight harvesting and presence controls working quietly underneath. The full lighting and controls detail is available as a separate spec sheet for facilities and procurement teams, ask for it with your proposal. (Statutory emergency and egress lighting is included as part of the build.)

03 · Where it applies

Six workplace jobs
we do regularly.

Corporate HQs, professional firms, co-working, fit-outs and refurbishments, the brand changes but the discipline doesn't. Design for the people and the screens, control for the daylight.

A / Open-plan

Open-plan floors

Even, low-glare light across the workstations with daylight-linked dimming on the window rows. The bread-and-butter office job, done so screens stay readable.

B / Meeting

Boardrooms & meeting

Dimmable scenes that switch from presentation to discussion, with good light on faces for the video calls that now run every meeting.

C / Reception

Reception & lobby

The first impression of the brand, layered ambient and feature lighting that sets a tone.

D / Wellness

Tunable / circadian white

Colour temperature that shifts cooler through the morning and warmer toward the evening, the wellness spec that's becoming standard on premium fit-outs.

E / Controls

Daylight & presence controls

DALI and wireless controls that harvest daylight and switch off empty zones. We spec controls where the payback is real.

F / Refurb

Refurbishments & retrofits

Swapping tired fluorescent troffers for designed LED panels and linears, often re-using the ceiling grid, fast payback, immediate comfort lift.

04 · Our customers

Names in our
office fit-outs & halls.

Corporate offices, HQ campuses, facilities-managed estates, law firms and schools we've lit across South Africa.

+& more

A selection of clients we've supplied and/or installed for.

05 · Why Lamphouse

Independent specifiers,
not a single factory.

We import the best workplace kit from the manufacturers worth importing and spec the right one for your floor, rather than bending every brief to one catalogue. On an office, that means the right glare class and the right control system for the floor.

A designer takes the brief

Every job starts with a lighting designer running the lux model, the UGR glare check and the daylight/controls strategy, then we spec the kit and the payback alongside the quote.

B-BBEE Level 2, docs ready same day

Corporates, property funds and public-sector tenants can buy from us without an exception process. Certificate current, documentation in your inbox the day you ask.

Installed around the working day

Our project manager phases the install over evenings and weekends so the floor never stops. Crews work to our commissioning standard, with a maintenance SLA on the table if you want one.

06 · In the field

Office refurb, lower bill, better room.

Case study · Commercial

Open-plan workspace with screen-safe, bespoke LED lighting at the Astron HQ — Astron Century City · workspace lighting

"The complaints about glare on the screens stopped overnight, and finance liked the lighting bill even more."

A typical office refurb swaps tired recessed fluorescents for designed LED panels and linears. The old scheme was uniform, over-lit and glaring straight into monitors; staff had taped over fittings and brought in desk lamps, a sign the ceiling was working against them.

Our designer reset the layout to a screen-safe glare class, dropped the working-plane lux to a comfortable level, and added daylight-linked dimming on the window rows plus presence control on the meeting rooms and circulation. Energy fell because the building stopped lighting empty space at full power next to a wall of glass; comfort rose because the glare was gone.

Whether it's a single floor or a multi-storey HQ, the approach is the same, design for the people and the screens, control for the daylight. Brief us on your office → (Representative of typical Lamphouse office refurbishments, happy to walk through a specific named project under NDA.)

Got an office that's
fighting its own screens?

Send us the basics: a floor plan if you've got one, the ceiling type, how each area is used, the glazing, and your capex envelope. We'll come back inside the week with a screen-safe lux model, a controls strategy, a costed bill of materials and a payback that's honest about the running costs.

Brief our team → Call Joburg · 011 608 2565 → Call Cape Town · 021 551 6322 → Call Durban · 031 564 0710 →

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Astron Century City HQ:bespoke.

Real workplaceprojects.

Lighting peopleactually sit under.

We light thepeople first.

Six workplace jobswe do regularly.