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recording studio, a transit hub, a retail boutique façade, a botanical garden
lighting installation, a library, a subway station thoroughfare, a museum plaza
and façade, a holiday lighting display, an up and coming design studio, and an
art conservation technique that uses illumination. These were the 10 project
discussions that caught the attention of Architectural Lighting’s audience in
2015. While they vary in scale, scope, location, and lighting strategy, they
are all constant in their attention to detail and fundamental use of light to
transform space into an illuminated experience.
1. “Sonoma
Recording Studio,” (From Nov/Dec 2015)
The
Northern California Redwoods provide the setting for a musical retreat with
lighting designed by San Francisco-based PritchardPeck Lighting.
2. “Sky
Reflector-Net at the Fulton Center,” (From Mar/Apr 2015)
James
Carpenter Design Associates, Grimshaw, and Arup design a giant daylight
reflector that draws eyes to the sky at this transit hub in Lower Manhattan.
3. “Michael
Kors Shanghai Flagship Store Façade,” (From Sept/Oct 2015)
Tillotson
Design Associates creation of a luminous façade showcases the identity of the
Michael Kors brand.
4. “Bruce
Munro: Light in the Garden,” (From Sept. 2015)
On
view through Oct. 3, 2015, at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, this was the
artist’s sixth solo show in the U.S.
5. “Illuminating
a Cathedral of Learning,” (From Sept/Oct 2015)
An
$18 million restoration to the nave of Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library enabled
Helpern Architects and Kugler Ning Lighting Design to bring James Gamble
Rogers’ Gothic Revival masterpiece back to life.
6. “Speirs
+ Major Illuminates Kings Cross Pedestrian Tunnel in London,” (From March 2015)
A
mathematically inspired light wall references the transient nature of an
underground commuter byway.
7. “Classically
Deep: A New Lighting Scheme for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Plaza,” (From
Jan/Feb 2015)
L’Observatoire
International has designed an integrated lighting scheme for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art that reveals the depth of the building’s Beaux-Arts façade and
assists wayfinding in its new Olin-designed plaza.
8. “Luminaries
Lights Up Lower Manhattan,” (From Dec. 2015)
The
Rockwell Group’s new holiday lighting display is the star attraction at Battery
Park City.
9. “Rich
Brilliant Willing Makes Its Move,” (From Nov/Dec 2015)
The
up-and-coming fixture maker is breaking out of Brooklyn to formalize its place
in the New York lighting design community and beyond.
10. “Reviving
Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals Using Light,” (From Jan/Feb 2015)
A cutting-edge conservation tool
uses light to erase 50 years of damage to Harvard University’s famed murals by
Mark Rothko.
