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IESNYC Lumen Awards
IESNYC Lumen Awards
Awards of Excellence
Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals at the AMNH
Design Firm: Renfro Design Group
Architectural Firm: Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Design team: Richard Renfro, Jenny Stafford, Matt Caraway, Aylin Aydin, Angie Ohman, Paola Bernal
Completion Date: June 6, 2021
Project Location: New York City
A welcome part of New York City’s reopening, the redesigned halls of gems and minerals at the American Museum of Natural History feature more than 5,000 specimens from 98 countries within a spacious 11,000 sq. ft. gallery. The color-changing perimeter cove provides a sense of boundary within the space and sets a low-level ambience for higher drama. Then each dazzling specimen is displayed to clarify its features and create a preeminent educational experience. Rigorous mockups, studies, and testing uncovered fixtures with the right attributes to define each specimen. Globally renowned gems are showcased by sources just above eye level, ensuring visitors see the extraordinary optical properties each gem possesses. Nearby, a drab 10-ton zinc slab flashes to piercing orange and green colors elicited by UV light. Each large case houses a dual-CCT, 98+ CRI, micro-adjustable track system for highlighting; a linear light wash to illuminate the full case and graphics; and a linear fiberoptic uplight to mitigate heavy shadows. The case’s final design compartmentalized light sources in attics, to reduce the potential that maintenance might disturb this precious collection of gems and minerals so that all New Yorkers and visitors might enjoy their brilliance.
Confidential Aerospace / Defense Headquarters
Design Firm: Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc
Architectural Firm: Lehman Smith McLeish (LSM)
Design team: Paula Martinez Nobles, Katheryn Czub, Ame E. Leder, Charles G. Stone II
Completion Date: July 20, 2020
Project Location: Reston, VA
Nestled within a wooded 22-acre site on the rolling hills of Virginia, this bespoke 250,000 square foot corporate headquarters reveals itself as a highly refined lantern of evolved modernism. The building's users are enveloped in luminous spaces, exuding a calm airiness. Surfaces are interrupted only by structural members or the purposeful intervention of art and changes of materials. Studied, integrated lighting techniques contribute to gestures that expand space and create impressions of great depth of field. Particularly, the lighted ceilings throughout employ optically optimized linear LED fixtures that extend views to adjacent spaces and provide soft lighting on walls. All the illumination choices are highly methodical; rigorous layouts of minimal downlights, coves, and overt linear expressions all work in harmony with the architecture. The lighting appropriately recedes from view, enhancing the strong modernist structure and its nod to brutalist influences. Refined washes on both hard surfaces and soft materials, and the controlled color palette, dominate our impressions of the project. The project may be described as high budget with exceedingly low energy use, helping achieve USGBC LEED Silver certification.
Photography Credit: Peter Aaron / OTTO
Photography Credit: Peter Aaron / OTTO
Photography Credit: Peter Aaron / OTTO
Stony Brook University Mart Building & Children's Hospital Tower
Design Firm: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design
Architectural Firm: Pelli Clarke & Partners
Design team: Francesca Bettridge, Michael Hennes, Nira Wattanachote
Key Luminaires: Acuity controls, Zaneen
Completion Date: February 28, 2020
Project Location: Stony Brook, NY
Three connected structures – a Cancer Center, Children’s Hospital and Auditorium – give Stony Brook University’s medical campus a renewed visual identity. The design draws inspiration from the surrounding landscape and the organic architectural forms it suggests. Our lighting reinforces these references, making the spaces comfortable and welcoming. A water motif suffuses the Children’s Hospital lobby. Grazers highlight mosaic “bubbles,” and large ceiling fixtures enrich the aquatic imagery. In patient rooms, color-changing LEDs, customizable DMX interfaces, and easy-to-use bedside controls enable children to personalize their environments. Thoughtfully selected decorative fixtures mark entrances and circulation spaces. Pendants highlight the auditorium lobby’s ellipse-shaped arrival point. Cylindrical glass lights follow the form of a spiral stair down to the lower level. In the shared auditorium, indirect uplights emphasize the overlapping petals that form the stepped ceiling, creating a dramatic effect that emphasizes the room’s sweeping arc. On the ceiling of the double-height Cancer Center lobby, the water theme reemerges in a glass art feature. Layered, overlapping LED circles are animated by DMX controls to suggest ripples. This feature embraces the essence of our lighting concept: celebration of nature’s forms and imagery, reinforcement of pure geometries, and the design of spaces that evoke delight.
Photography Credit: Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Photography Credit: Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Photography Credit: Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Little Island
Design Firm: Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc
Architectural Firm: Heatherwick Studio
Design team: Enrique Garcia-Carrera, Paul Marantz, Miyoung Song-Carroll
Landscape Architect: Mathews Nielson Landscape Architects (MNLA)
Completion Date: May 21, 2021
Project Location: New York City
A daring public-private partnership, Little Island rises from a vision to replace a decaying pier, imagining a new public space for Manhattan. The result is a new public park providing an immersive art and nature experience. The brief: create an intimate yet safe environment, with subtle landscape and structure highlights utilizing inconspicuous sources. Topography and plants glow from concealed luminaires. Visitors first notice the softly glowing park from the esplanade. The historic pier’s archway acts as entry beacon leading to the luminous bridge and concrete “pots” structure. Arriving, one can explore luminous pathways, experience a performance, or marvel at unparalleled vistas of city and river, unobstructed thanks to shielded lighting. Choosing highlights and shadows creates a dynamic nighttime setting. At the entry, lights change color for special events, while all others remain warm-white in consideration of nighttime adaptation and the serene environment. Many fixtures were custom designed to meet the client’s high expectations and the harsh New York Harbor environment. Existing pole lights were not sufficiently inconspicuous, necessitating bespoke design of slender, multiple-shielded-head poles. At the performance venues, each fixture is wirelessly dimmable via a sophisticated control system. A demonstration of how state-of-the-art lighting can achieve a new visual experience.
Photography Credit: Michael Grimm Photography, FMSP
Photography Credit: Michael Grimm Photography, FMSP
Photography Credit: Michael Grimm Photography, FMSP
Awards of Merit
550 Madison Avenue
Design Firm: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architectural Firm: Gensler
Design team: Stacie Dinwiddy, Martin van Koolbergen, Stacey Bello, Dorothy Underwood
Key Luminaires: Lumenpulse, Optic Arts by Luminii, LED-Linear
Completion Date: January 3, 2022
Project Location: New York City
Seeking to complement the volume of this iconic tower transformation, the lighting design for this soaring ground floor lobby emphasizes the ethereal, pensive quality of the space while honoring the simple, classic forms and materials. Mindful of concealing all specified light sources, surfaces and edges appear to radiate light, with no distractions to compromise the visitors’ experience. In deference to the original design, the original oculus was kept and re-illuminated with tunable white sources to account for natural light entering throughout the day. A suspended 24-ton blue-marble sphere art installation in the lobby center is lit, giving the illusion of a piece of sky brought down to ground level. Lighting of this piece not only perfectly highlights the art, but also the terrazzo floor, which is made from the crushed pink granite that originally adorned the walls. The dynamism of the space is translated throughout the day via a tunable white programmed control system. The amount of natural light that penetrates the space from north and south was fundamental in the approach to artificial lighting.
Photography Credit: James Ewing / Gensler
Photography Credit: James Ewing / Gensler
Photography Credit: James Ewing / Gensler
Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center
Design Firm: Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
Architectural Firm: Studio Joseph, River Architects
Design team: Anita Jorgensen, Joseph Ballweg
Completion Date: May 14, 2021
Project Location: Garrison, NY
Tucked away in Garrison, NY, a new Design Center comprises the nationally landmarked mid-century home, serene studio and enchanting forest of an iconic American industrial designer. This exquisite new design space tells the story of how the designer, Russel Wright, shaped modern American lifestyle from early experiments in spun aluminum in the 1930s, and the colorful rounded forms of American Modern mix and match dinnerware to Japanese inspired patterns and textures decades later. The state-of-the-art exhibition space connects to the main House Museum and to an exterior terrace with stunning views of a dramatic stone ridge and surrounding woodland landscape. The design approach is guided by the concept of "invisible" lighting that seamlessly blends with the exterior environment while highlighting the uniquely American mid-century forms created by Russel Wright. Continuous bands of neutral 3,000°Kelvin LED luminaires are discreetly concealed within the curvilinear architectural elements, while miniature recessed accent lights add sparkle to the objects placed on the organically shaped central display area. The lighting plays a supporting role by enhancing the stars of the installation - Russel Wright's iconic, organically shaped objects created for "easier living," a unique American lifestyle that was gracious yet contemporary and informal.
Photography Credit: Wendy Joseph, Michael Biondo
Photography Credit: Wendy Joseph, Michael Biondo
Bike Barn at Thaden School
Design Firm: TM Light
Architectural Firm: Marlon Blackwell Architects
Design team: B. Alex Miller, Aoife O’Leary
Key Luminaires: EcoSense
Completion Date: May 1, 2020
Project Location: Bentonville, AR
Visually anchoring the eastern portion of a school campus, this barn structure provides a flexible space for sports and gatherings. The lighting concept is rooted in the vernacular of a dilapidated barn that allows light to leak both inward and outward. The façade spacing is modulated to allow the building to glow like a lantern. We worked closely with architects to develop the detailing of the enclosure to allow for this trespass of light through certain planes. This allows for a subtle dappling of light, shade, and shadow when patterns are cast by the spaces between the wood members, articulating the ‘space between’ rather than the architectural surface. Where possible, this indirect passage of light through architectural surface was valued above the application of direct light from the light fixtures themselves. The main source of interior lighting is indirect ceiling illumination provided through uplight grazers concealed at the balcony level. Cylinder pendants are used for supplemental downlighting and carefully located to align with the bottom of the wood trusses and thus reduce the visual impact. The lighting design deploys inexpensive, industrial fixtures to reinforce the experience of space while using them in an elegant and strategic way to maintain hierarchy.
Photography Credit: Timothy Hursley
Photography Credit: Timothy Hursley
Photography Credit: Timothy Hursley
Denver Art Museum
Design Firm: Burro Happold
Architectural Firm: Machado Silvetti, Fentress Architects
Design team: Wei Liu, Gabe Guilliams, James Clotfelter, Chris Coulter
Completion Date: October 24, 2021
Project Location: Denver, CO
Two eclectic buildings house the Denver Art Museum's expansive collection. The Buro Happold team researched the original abstract façade lighting concept that had been lost through time. The original neon lighting scheme bifurcates the façade at overlapping surfaces. To re-create the effect, powerful narrow-beam sources are mounted only at the top and bottom of the seven-story slots, making the effect much easier to maintain. Original window-integrated luminaires discovered during demolition were replaced, re-creating the same internal glowing effect that was originally conceived.
Winter Visual Arts Center - Franklin & Marshall
Design Firm: L'Observatoire International
Architectural Firm: Steven Holl Architects
Design team: Hervé Descottes, Wei Jien, June Park, Thomas Mnich, Wen Y. Lin
Key Luminaires: ETC, Lutron, EcoSense, Edison Price, ALW, CoolEdge, and ERCO
Completion Date: October 1, 2020
Project Location: Lancaster, PA
L’Observatoire’s multifunctional lighting concept celebrates the distinctive geometry of the building’s architecture. In common spaces, such as the ground floor forum, mono points and track systems offer adjustable lighting for exhibitions and events, while integrated lighting shapes the overall atmosphere, transforming walls and edges into glowing surfaces. Studio spaces are illuminated through skylights with integrated electric lighting to facilitate an even cast of light. Exterior lighting amplifies the unique curves and character of the building, enhancing the elevated structure to create the impression of a floating volume.
Photography Credit: Paul Warchol
Photography Credit: Paul Warchol
Citation for Sustainable Design
Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion
Design Firm: Burro Happold
Architectural Firm: Grimshaw Architects
Design team: Chris Coulter, Gabe Guilliams, Jenny Werbell
Project Location: Dubai
This Expo features pavilions from 192 nations, each demonstrating native cutting-edge technology. The site hosts photovoltaic trees, along with a photovoltaic canopy shading the site and subterranean exhibition hall. The distribution of canopies on the site strikes a delicate balance between optimal solar collection, shading visitors from the intense sun, and providing visually comfortable indirect illumination for nighttime visitors.
Photography Credit: Phil Hanforth
Photography Credit: Phil Hanforth
Citation for Ceiling Feature
Deutsche Bank, One Columbus Circle
Design Firm: One Lux Studio
Architectural Firm: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Design team: Stephen Margulies, Elena Areshina, Taki Taniguch
Key Luminaires: Flos, Kettra, Edison Price, USAI
Completion Date: August 31, 2021
Project Location: New York City
The lobby redesign at this building was driven largely by the need to brighten the space. Previously, the lobby felt dark and uninviting, even during the day, due to factors like limited sunlight and dark architectural finishes. To help solve this, the lighting team designed a system of custom, illuminated baffles at the lobby’s ceiling, which combines with additional light layers to create depth and visual interest. The lighting solution more than compensates for the lack of natural lighting, elevating this transitional space above and beyond the average treatment of a corporate lobby.
Photography Credit: Caprice Johnson
Photography Credit: Caprice Johnson
– Stephen Margulies
Citation for Urban Lighting Research
Light Gowanus
Design Firm: Sighte Studio
Design team: Francesca Bastianini and Alex Pappas-Kalber
Completion Date: October 2, 2021
Project Location: Brooklyn
The project consists of a comprehensive longitudinal survey of existing electric lighting conditions throughout one Brooklyn neighborhood. Both quantitative and qualitative data sets were collected through measuring, photographing, observing, and interviewing community members. Future surveys will capture a historic narrative of the neighborhood’s lighting during and after impending development, creating a reference for use in other urban redevelopment situation.
Photography Credit: Alexandra Pappas-Kalber
