The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society presented the winners of its 44th-annual Lumen Awards Gala on June 21 at Pier Sixty in New York. More than 600 lighting design and lighting industry professionals gathered to celebrate the work of their peers. Ten awards in three categories were presented:
Two Awards of Excellence:
The National September 11 Memorial, New York; lighting designer: Fisher Marantz Stone, New York
The Rookery Building, Chicago; lighting designer: Office for Visual Interaction, New York
Six Awards of Merit
Cité de L’Océan et du Surf Museum, Biarritz, France
The High Line: Section Two, New York; lighting designer: L’Observatoire International, New York
Claremont University Consortium, Claremont, Calif.; lighting designer: Lumen Architecture, New York
Elizabeth Arden Offices, Stamford, Conn.; lighting designer: RS Lighting Design, New York
Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial, Washington, D.C.; lighting designer: David Mintz with Randy Burkett Lighting Design, St. Louis
Yotel, New York; lighting designer: Focus Lighting, New York
One Citation for Lighting that Supports the Architecture
Milstein Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; lighting designer: Tillotson Design Associates, New York
One Citation for Integration of Daylighting and Electrical Lighting
The Sidwell Friends Meeting House and Arts Center, Washington, D.C.; lighting designer: Arup, New York.
Elizabeth Donoff is Editor-at-Large of Architectural Lighting (AL). She served as Editor-in-Chief from 2006 to 2017. She joined the editorial team in 2003 and is a leading voice in the lighting community speaking at industry events such as Lightfair and the International Association of Lighting Designers Annual Enlighten Conference, and has twice served as a judge for the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Lumen Award program. In 2009, she received the Brilliance Award from the IESNYC for dedicated service and contribution to the New York City lighting community. Over the past 11 years, under her editorial direction, Architectural Lighting has received a number of prestigious B2B journalism awards. In 2017, Architectural Lighting was a Top Ten Finalist for Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors' AZBEE Awards. In 2016, Donoff received the Jesse H. Neal Award for her Editor’s Comments in the category of Best Commentary/Blog, and in 2015, AL received a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Media Brand (Overall Editorial Excellence).Prior to her entry into design journalism, Donoff worked in New York City architectural offices including FXFowle where she was part of the project teams for the Reuters Building at Three Times Square and the New York Times Headquarters. She is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Me., and she earned her Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
