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ABKCO Music and Records
New York, NY

Lumen Citation for Simple and Playful Use of Light

Maximizing daylight, expanding spatial boundaries, and a unique illumination scheme were the lighting goals for this music company’s work place; filled with iconic rock and roll history and celebrated achievements. “Art as light and light as music” was the lighting inspiration – playful, fluid and gradient, contrasted with crisp luminous shapes: a microphone chandelier adds sparkle, ceiling domes are laid out to resemble a “drum kit”, a curved cove mimics layered sheet music, a continuous cove illuminates the space, and hovering above a back lit ceiling spilling light into the offices as an architectural cloud. The project meets ASHRAE 90.1-2007.

Lighting Design Firm: RS Lighting Design - Randy Sabedra

Architectural Firm: Highland Associates - Glenn Leitch, Elizabeth DeMello, Eric Scott, and Deborah Lorenzo

Photography: Beata Kowalczyk-Wolosz, Highland Associates

Photography: Mick Rock

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Burj Khalifa
Dubai, UAE

Lumen Citation for Façade Lighting

A tower, so tall and slender that it dwarfs everything around it, does not need a spectacle of light to ensure its visibility. Floodlighting this tower, the world’s tallest, from site perimeter was not an option, as the sweeping desert sands and high humidity from the Arabian Gulf would tent the structure in a perennial cloud. The narrow, almost vertical solution is an exposition of restrained and minimalist design. Raking uplight from atop the terraced prows of the building’s three legs saves energy and ensures minimal light trespass for the residential tenants and little skylight pollution.

Lighting Design Firm: Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc. - Paul Marantz, Hank Forrest

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Adrian Smith

Project Owner: EMAAR Properties

Photography: Photo © Tim Griffith and FMS 

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Flavor Paper
Brooklyn, NY

Lumen Citation for Residential Lighting

Flavor Paper’s repurposing of a former beer warehouse in Cobble Hill Brooklyn into a design studio, apartments, and owner’s penthouse, was imagined as an architectural statement as bold as their eccentric designs. A neon installation reveals itself in a vault beneath the sidewalk and climbs through the glass-front stair tower. Inside the penthouse, wall and ceiling planes clad in crocodile skin float below a layer of honey-colored indirect illumination, while custom chandeliers and illuminated tables conjure the owner’s fascination with reflective pattern. And on the owner’s rooftop oasis, illuminated skylights give a nod to the neighboring church steeples.

Lighting Design Firm: Lighting Workshop - Doug Russell, Steven Espinoza

Project Owner: Flavor Paper

Photography: Boone Speed

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Mall of America, South Avenue Renovation
Bloomington, MN

Lumen Citation for Lighting Transformation

The renovation of “South Avenue” sought to unify the space by resolving the existing installation’s lack of cohesion and strove to give the space a strong sense of place. Lighting was integrated within the architecture to achieve spatial clarity and to create a comfortably luminous surround with intermittent sparkle. Ambient light emanates from fluorescent coves and from the ceiling and pedestrian bridges which incorporate backlit translucent fabric panels. Architect-designed crystal sculptures glisten from fiber optic points above. The juxtaposition of polished and matte finishes is enhanced by direct lighting. In combination, a more relaxed and defined space was created.

Lighting Design Firm: Cooley Monato Studio - Renee Cooley, Jenny Ivansson

Architect: Gabellini Sheppard Associates LLP - Michael Gabellini, FAIA; Kimberly Sheppard, AIA; Dan Garbowit, AIA

Architect: DLR|KKE - Natina James

Project Owner: Mall of America

Photography: Paul Warchol, Paul Warchol Photography

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155 North Wacker
Chicago, IL

Lumen Award of Merit

The new 1.4 million square foot office tower at 155 N. Wacker in Chicago boasts a brand new lobby and arcade that activates the streetscape and creates a dynamic public space entry into this innovative corporate center. The lobby and arcade are contiguous to each other and a powerful diagonal grid is overlayed to both spaces. The ceiling lighting was designed to seamlessly connect the interior lobby and exterior arcade. Concealed LED strip lights mounted within an architecturally constructed cove create the strong diagonal lines and perform unaffected by changes in ambient temperature in interior as well as exterior environments.

Lighting Design Firm: One Lux Studio, LLC - Stephen Margulies

Photography: Tom Rossiter Photography

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Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park
New York, NY

Lumen Award of Merit

Cline Bettridge Bernstein’s innovative lighting design solution for this first-ever LEED Platinum skyscraper creates a dramatic nighttime presence for its crystalline structure. Horizontal bands of white LEDs illuminate a clear glass façade facet that extends from the 21st floor up to the crown. Rising above the crown, a 300-ft. tall spire incorporates RGB LED floodlights with DMX controls, producing an array of color-changing and dynamic effects. After dark, the tower’s lighting transforms it into a feature on the City skyline, demonstrating that iconic lighting is achievable within the framework of sustainable design.

Lighting Design Firm: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, Inc. - Francesca Bettridge, Michael Hennes, Mitul Parekh

Project Owner: The Durst Organization, Inc. - Louis Esposito

Photography: David Sundberg, Esto
Photographics, Inc. and Ryan Browne, Cook + Fox Architects

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Lincoln Center
New York, NY

Lumen Award of Merit

The lighting of the exterior plazas at Lincoln Center brings about a glamorous evening experience sympathetic to the surrounding iconic buildings. The lighting intensifies the patrons’ anticipation of the dramatic arts they have come to celebrate. Drama is fashioned through the careful and precise illumination of new architectural elements. Translucent glass canopies appear to glow from within, dramatic fountain and under-bench lighting entices, subtle tree Bosque uplighting creates alluring intimate settings and the simulation of peaceful moonlighting at the roof lawn adds to the inviting nature of the urban site as a place for public gathering.

Lighting Design Firm: Tillotson Design Associates - Suzan Tillotson, David Burya

Architects: FXFOWLE and Beyer Blinder Belle Architects

Photography: Iwan Baan Photography, Iwan Baan

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Art Collector's Loft
New York, NY

Lumen Award of Excellence

Designing the lighting for the loft of an avid art collector necessitated a lighting strategy that was both comfortable for a permanent residence and responsive to the presentation of art. The sweeping curvilinear aspect of the architecture combined with the owner’s request to never see a light fixture provided a challenging task for discretely embedding the lighting into the architecture. Working within the shell of a formerly industrial space, we were given the added challenge of making the large central gallery appear to float under a soaring ceiling that was actually just under 9’ tall.

Lighting Design Firm: Renfro Design Group, Inc - Richard Renfro, Sarah Randall, Fabio Tuchiya, Andrew Thompson

Photography: Iwan Baan Photography, Iwan Baan

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Arthouse
Austin, TX

Lumen Award of Excellence

Both a theater and department store in previous incarnations, Arthouse blurs any distinction between art and architecture. It's lighting both dazzles and embraces modernity through light and form. Despite a tight budget and strict energy allowances, the team focused on creating functionality and strong visual elements. The walls of the building 'speak', as palimpsest retains the building's history and is now artistically punctured by LED illuminated green glass blocks that have become a signature of the building both during the day and at night. Every detail of the building has been carefully designed and often hand-crafted to support the creative community it represents and serves.

Lighting Design Firm: Lumen Architecture, PLLC - Nelson Jenkins, AIA, LC, IES, LEED; Alejandro Bulaevsky

Photography: Nelson Jenkins, Lumen Architecture, and Michael Moran, Michael Moran Studio

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Science Storms at the Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago, IL

Lumen Award of Excellence

How can light inspire young minds? That was one of the driving questions behind Science Storms at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. It is a dramatic and interactive environment where guests of all ages can explore the physics of light and the science behind powerful natural phenomena. It is a 26,000-square-foot permanent exhibition showcasing 50 large-scale exhibits and experiments. These interactive experiments include a 40-foot tall tornado of swirling vapor and light, a 20ft diameter spinning avalanche disk, an automated heliostat, and suspended ripple tanks that are illuminated from the ceiling to project wave patterns onto guests below.

Lighting Design Firm: Focus Lighting, Inc. - Paul Gregory, JR Krauza, Joshua Spitzig, Dan Henry, Kenneth Schutz

Architect: Evidence Design - Jack Pascarosa, Shari Berman

Photography: J.B Spector, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago