Lightfair was the host for the 32nd Annual IALD International Lighting Design Awards presented May 6, 2015, at an evening program and reception held at Gotham Hall in New York City. Fifteen projects four Awards of Excellence, 10 Awards of Merit, and 1 Special Citation were recognized from a field of more than 200 international entries. The Radiance Award, the program’s highest honor, went to BUME Perfect Illumination Design & Engineering Company for their work on the Han Show Theatre in Wuhan City, Hubei, China.
Projects were reviewed and evaluated by a group of lighting and architectural professionals at the IALD’s headquarter offices in Chicago in December 2014. The jury members were as follows: Gilberto Franco, Franco Associados, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Lewis Goetz, Baskervill, Metro Washington, D.C.; Stephen Lees, Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, New York; Maureen Moran, MCLA Architectural Lighting Design, Washington, D.C.; Leslie North, Aurora Lighting Design, Graylake, Ill., Lee Prince, Light & Design Associates, London; Jason Rosenblatt, Nelson, Chicago.
The full list of 2015 winning projects is:
Radiance Award
Project: Han Show Theatre in Wuhan City, Hubei, China
Lighting Designers: BUME Perfect Illumination Design & Engineering Company
Award of Excellence
Project: The National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center, New York
Lighting Designers: Fisher Marantz Stone, New York
Award of Excellence
Project: Zhenhai Culture & Art Center, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Lighting Designers: Ningbo Yongqi Lighting Co.
Award of Excellence
Project: Kings Cross Square, London
Lighting Designers: Studio Fractal Lighting Design, Gatwick, West Sussex, U.K.
Award of Merit
Project: Stapleton Library, Staten Island, N.Y.
Lighting Designers: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, New York
Award of Merit
Project: Kyobashi Child Institution, Tokyo
Lighting Designers: Lighting M, Tokyo
Award of Merit
Project: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Salon Doré, San Francisco
Lighting Designers: Auerbach Glasow French, San Francisco
Award of Merit
Project: Art Museum Ahrenshoop, Osteseebad Ahrenshoop, Germany
Lighting Designers: Licht Kunst Licht, Bonn, Germany
Award of Merit
Project: The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Columbia University School of Journalism, New York
Lighting Designers: Buro Happold, New York
Award of Merit
Project: Knightsbridge Estate, London
Lighting Designers: GIA Equation, London
Award of Merit
Project: The U.S. National Library Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, Washington. D.C.
Lighting Designers: Available Light, Salem, Mass.
Award of Merit
Project: Queen Elizabeth Park, London
Lighting Designers: Speirs + Major, London
Award of Merit
Project: Das Gerber, Stuttgart, Germany
Lighting Designers: Pfarré Lighting Design, Munich, Germany
Award of Merit
Project: Northrop Auditorium Renovation, Minneapolis, Minn.
Lighting Designers: HGA Architects + Engineers, Minneapolis, Minn., and Arup, New York
Special Citation for Provoking Interactive Play in a Social Context
Project: Light Garden, Lima, Peru
Lighting Designers: Claudia Paz Lighting Studio, Lima, Peru