The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section (IESNYC) presented the 2015 Lumen Awards at its 47th annual Lumen Gala held on June 18, 2015, in New York City. This year, the event drew a record-breaking attendance or more than 800 guests from across the design and manufacturing sectors of the lighting industry. Awards were presented in three categories: the Lumen Award of Excellence, the highest level of recognition for permanent architectural application; the Lumen Award of Merit, in recognition for a meritorious permanent architectural application; and a Lumen Citation, in recognition for an art installation, technical detail, portion of a single project, temporary installation, or other work.
Fourteen projects were selected from a pool of approximately 100 entries. Overall the jury selected two projects with Awards of Excellence, five projects with Awards of Merit, and seven projects with Citation Awards.
The complete list of project winners is as follows:
Awards of Excellence
Project: The Pavilion at Brookfield Place
Lighting Designer: Kugler
Ning Lighting Design
Project: Carnegie Hall Façade Lighting
Lighting Designer: Kugler
Ning Lighting Design
Awards of Merit
Project: 330 Hudson Street Lobby
Lighting Designer: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting in collaboration with ESI Design
Project: The National September 11 Memorial Museum
Lighting Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone
Project: Tavern on the Green Courtyard
Lighting Designer: Focus Lighting in collaboration with KB Associates
Project: McKim, Mead & White Library Restoration
Lighting Designer: Kugler
Ning Lighting Design
Project: Restoration of the Nave of Yale Sterling Memorial
Library
Lighting Designer: Kugler
Ning Lighting Design
Citation Awards
Project: Fulton Center and Sky Reflector-Net (for an
architectural feature as a light source)
Lighting Designer: Arup
Project: Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia
University University (for strong execution of a concept)
Lighting Designer: Buro
Happold
Project: One World Trade Center Spire (for controls
innovation)
Lighting Designer: Claude
R. Engle Lighting Consultant
Project: Dulles Corridor Metrorail (for design execution for
a public transit system)
Lighting Designer: Domingo
Gonzales Associates
Project: Starlight (for light installation)
Lighting Designer: Studio
Joseph in collaboration with Studio
1 Thousand
Project: Michael Kors Shanghai (for façade detail)
Lighting Designer: Tilliotson
Design Associates
Project: Falling Sticks (for light installation)
Lighting Designer: zeroLUX
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The following designers served as the 2015 Lumen Award jury:
Lee E. Brandt, principal, HLB Lighting Design; AC Hickox, principal and vice
president, Domingo Gonzalez Associates; Renée Joosten, lighting design
director, ICRAVE; Sarah E. Randall, project manager, Renfro Design Group; Eric
R. Scott, senior associate, Highland Associates; and Melanie Taylor, vice
president, WSP.
“The New York lighting community celebrates at the Lumen Awards Gala,” Megan Carroll, chair of the Lumen Awards Committee and director of sales east at Xicato said in a prepared statement. “It’s the one night during the year when we gather to honor the accomplishments of our members. A record-breaking over 800 guests from New York City, across the Hudson, and North America came to celebrate our strong, vital industry, and the recipients of the 47th Lumen Awards.”
In addition to the project awards the section also presented its service awards. The following members were recognized for their contributions: IESNYC Brilliance Award: Marty Salzberg, Cline Bettridge Bernstein; IESNA Section Service Award: Chuck Cameron, Stan Deutsch Associates; and IESNA Section Meritorious Service Award: Randy Sabedra, RS Lighting Design.
“The New York City lighting community has a vast depth and breadth of award-winning lighting designers and this, along with the consultants, and manufacturer’s reps, contribute to the making of this year’s Lumen Awards,” Tim Milton, president of the IESNYC and regional vice president north east of USAI Lighting said in a press statement. “I’m particularly pleased that the IESNYC strives to outreach and support this same lighting community and at the Lumen Awards Gala, it’s also a time to honor select members with Section Service Awards.”
Correction: A previous version of this article noted that it was an unprecedented occurrence in the history of the program that a single firm received four awards in a given year. That was not correct.
