Located in the mall’s Fashion Avenue, the experience-led venue was reimagined by global interior design firm Bishop Design, who transformed the space into a multisensory day-to-night dining destination. Studio N’s lighting design reinforces Bishop Design’s brand story by balancing layers of light and dark to heighten the ambience and add visual drama.

Opso is accessed via an enigmatic walkway featuring a starlit fibre optic ceiling, designed to instantly suspend the mood and trigger a transformative moment. The illuminated ceiling is motion activated and creates an energetic play of light throughout the corridor to pull guests through to the inner sanctum of the bar.

The design language in the bar is a heady mix of deep orange tones, dancing media screens and luscious greenery, so the lighting was integrated where possible to give the contrasting elements of the scheme space to shine. Narrow-beam recessed downlights direct functional illumination onto the countertop of the bar, while gentle lines of light draw the eye to key focal areas – the distinctive materiality of the bar and architectural columns, along with a showpiece open kitchen.

In the restaurant, a similar focus on indirect illumination adds warmth without detracting from the scheme’s more theatrical features. Cove lighting and spike lights in plants create an atmospheric glow at both a high and low level, providing a gentle quality of light that works cohesively with the interactive media screens. A lattice-style ceiling provides an injection of colour and light from above and features integrated RGBW LEDs that form a pulsating effect across the ceiling to ensure that the space always feels vibrant and alive.

Balanced use of dramatic and subtle lighting amplifies the mood in the Shisha area. A fibre optic ceiling evokes a celestial feel and is enhanced by an energetic band of RGBW cove lighting in the brand’s signature orange colourway. A delicately backlit metal-framed wall adds further contrast and tactility.

The atmosphere is decidedly more charged in the all-red Shisha lounge and DJ area, where dynamic media screens and moving head LEDs sweep guests away to a world that feels a million miles away from the neighbouring mall. As comfort is key to the experience, indirect lighting in the form of narrow-beam downlights and cove lighting produces an enveloping blanket of light, which is broken up by beams of laser lighting, positioned to interact with the smoke emitted by the shisha pipes and form swirling visual effects.