Lighting Design dot NYC

2015 Award of Excellence

Lighting Designer: Kugler Ning Lighting Design: Jerry Kugler, Amber Moriarty, Erin Gussert

Architects: Iu + Bibliowicz Architects: Carolyn Iu, Natan Bibliowicz

Owners: The City of New York and operated by the nonprofit Carnegie Hall Corporation

In preparation for its 125th Anniversary Season, Carnegie Hall partnered with the City of New York to illuminate the landmark façade, and engaged Kugler Ning to design the architectural lighting. Extensive study of the building’s decorative detail was necessary to ensure all penetrations were placed in reparable locations, minimizing any adverse impact on the historic fabric, as required by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Onsite mock-ups were conducted to determine LED distribution, mounting details, lighting throw, color quality, and lighting control zones. Energy efficient 2700K white LEDs were ultimately selected, and preset dimming controls were used to balance the lighting levels.

Photography: Esto: Jeff Goldberg; Kugler Ning Lighting Design

2015 Award of Excellence

Lighting Designer: Kugler Ning Lighting Design: Jerry Kugler, Jackson Ning, Sunhee Lim, Jung Eun RA

Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects: Rafael Pelli, FAIA & Craig Copeland, AIA & Spector Group: Scott Spector, AIA & Scott Hayden, RA

Owner: Brookfield Properties

The pavilion is a grand new entrance through which 35,000 commuters and visitors travel daily into Brookfield Place (formerly known as the World Financial Center). The sweeping form of a pair of 53-foot-tall structural columns is illuminated with a series of metal halide in-ground fixtures. Shadows of the columns are cast onto the ceiling, creating the illusion of even greater volume and movement. Downlights, recessed at the perimeter of the ceiling, provide additional illumination when daylight is insufficient. Fixtures were selected with lens assemblies that minimize lamp heat transfer. Internal custom louvers were developed that optimize light output while controlling glare. Consisting of only energy-efficient CMH lamps, total lighting load is 58% below ASHRAE. At night, the pavilion becomes a glowing beacon.

Photography: Esto: Jeff Goldberg; PelliClarke Pelli Architects: Craig Hoeksema

2015 Award of Merit

Lighting Designers: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design & ESI Design: Francesca Bettridge, Michael Hennes, Renata Gallo, Michael Schneider, Ed Purver, Angela Greene, Ania Wagner

Architect: HOK

Owner: Beacon Capital Partners

The entry to this 1910 warehouse building is re-imagined as a modern lobby with an LED media art installation that wraps around its perimeter. The inverted white LED coves reinforce the architectural aesthetic by creating glowing lines that softly illuminate the limestone surfaces. The effect is a modulated background that enhances, without dominating, the media walls. CBBLD designed the lobby’s lighting to complement and actively respond to the exhibit panels. The media art’s control system senses the image color and in turn informs the color and intensity of the architectural lighting. Together, the architectural lighting and media art create a rich, novel experience.

Photography: ESI Design

2015 Award of Merit

Lighting Designer: Kugler Ning Lighting Design: Jerry Kugler, Jackson Ning, Sunhee Lim, Jung Eun Ra

Architect: Peter Gisolfi Associates: Joseph Keating & Michael Tribe

Owner: Private NYC Social Club

The lighting goals for restoring the McKim,

Mead & White-designed library, circa 1899, were to highlight H. Siddons Mowbray’s murals and ceiling decorations, preserve a low level of illumination faithful to the era and provide pools of light for the reading areas. The murals are illuminated by 95CRI, 7.5W, 10-degree MR16 LED retrofit lamps concealed within custom wall sconces and book display lights, using details from the period and existing fixtures. Linear LEDs with internal louvers replaced 1970s-era fluorescent tubes within existing stack lights. Layers of light are controlled with lighting presets to enhance visual hierarchy and balance with daylight. Magnetic transformers allow for compatibility with advancing dimmable LED lamps.

Photography: Everett Short, William Philbin, Terry Nelson, Kugler Ning Lighting Design

2015 Award of Merit

Lighting Designer: Kugler Ning Lighting Design: Jerry Kugler, Jackson Ning, John Newman, Burr Rutledge, Ryoko Nakamura

Architect: Peter Gisolfi Associates: Joseph Keating & Michael Tribe

Owner: Yale University

The challenge was to restore the dark and

dreary Collegiate-Gothic nave to its original 1930s splendor, while making the old and new indistinguishable. New 2700K retrofit LED PAR38 and MR16 lamps, concealed within balconies, restored wrought iron chandeliers, and new picture lights illuminate the details of the elaborate ceilings. Retrofit LED A-lamps and diffusion film were added to restored sconces to soften their brightness and reveal the natural variation of the mica shades. Hand-fabricated chandeliers, using original materials and methods, were added to the north aisle. Pendants and card-catalog fixtures at the south aisle were refurbished and relamped with LEDs to balance daylight from restored skylights. The connected lighting load is 64% below ASHRAE.

Photography: Brian Rose, Jackson Ning, Kugler Ning Lighting Design

2015 Award of Merit

Lighting Designer: Focus Lighting: Paul Gregory, Christine Hope, Brett Andersen, Hilary Manners, Valentina Doro, Dan Nichols, Andrew Balmer

Architect: Richard Lewis Architects: Richard Lewis, Susan Armsby

Owner: Jim Caiola and David Salama

Inspired by the restaurant’s famed Crystal

Room, the lighting design treats the courtyard as an extension of the interior, using multiple layers of light to give dimension to the outdoor space. Classic architecture meets modern influences in the custom-designed cylindrical lanterns with frosted glass, gradient shades that radiate a soft, warm light. Steel-blue LED accents wash the slate roof, while 4200K pattern projectors mimic dappled moonlight. 500 “chandeliers” in varying sizes float above the courtyard in delicate swags. 3.5W, 2400K LED medium screw-base lamps provide an 86% reduction in energy use and 10% additional lumen output compared to regular 25W lamps, while adding the same feeling of incandescent sparkle within the canopy above.

Photography: Ryan Fischer, Focus Lighting

2015 Award of Merit

Lighting Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone: Paul Marantz, Barry Citrin, Zack Zanolli, Carla Ross Allen, Tim Huth

Architect: Davis Brody Bond: Steven Davis, Carl Krebs, David Williams, Mark Wagner, Oliver Sippl

Owner: The National September 11 Memorial Museum

Museums devoted to human tragedies, wars, disasters, and this project commemorating the 9/11 terrorist attacks, necessitate a delicate balance between rationality and emotion. There is, naturally, a great temptation to design in a minor key in order to reflect the darkness, gravity, solemnity, and passion of the events described. By restraining this impulse, avoiding an excess of melodrama, the visitors are free to develop their own responses and emotional connection to the event memorialized. As the architecture dictated, our lighting design goal here was to reserve a careful balance between rational and emotional, light and dark, hot and cold.

Photography: ESTO: Jeff Goldberg, Davis Brody Bond, James Ewing Photography, Charles G. Stone, Fisher Marantz Stone

2015 Citation for Strong Execution of Concept

Lighting Designer: Buro Happold: Gabe Guilliams, Pei-Chun Yang

Architect: LTL Architects: Marc Tsurumaki, Paul Lewis, David J. Lewis, John Morrison, Keith Greenwald

Owner: Columbia University School of Journalism

The journalism school’s media lab is an academic experiment devoted to the co-evolution of technology and storytelling. A series of intertwining luminous elements builds a network of ambient light to support the institute’s varied programmatic needs. Backlight integrated in the perimeter scrim adds depth, and allows the structure to become an extension of the ceiling network, cradling the volume. In media-intensive scenarios, eliminating overhead lighting and dimming perimeter light maximizes perceptibility of the projections while reducing peripheral contrast and resulting eyestrain. Ceiling lighting dims in response to daylight, and during the day the perimeter lighting reduces visual contrast between windows and solid wall surfaces.

Photography: Michael Moran Photography, Inc; Chris Coulter, Buro Happold; Gabe Guilliams, Buro Happold

2015 Award of Citation for Design Execution for a Public Transit System

Lighting Designer: Domingo Gonzalez Associates: Domingo Gonzalez, AC Hickox, Frederik Amnas, Patrick Merosier, Ana C. Pena

Architect: Dulles Transit Partners

Owner: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

After a ten-year design-build process, the five completed stations included in Phase One of the Silver Line soar above vehicular traffic. A limited quantity of lamps such as integral jacketed and bare lamp 35KT8 LFs, and MH types employed in high volumes, result in a maintenance-friendly installation. Exterior lighting is controlled via photocell for dusk-to-dawn operation. Bare lamp strips extend the length of the mezzanines for maximum energy efficiency. Custom continuous extruded aluminum luminaires deliver downlighting to walking surfaces as well as uplighting reminiscent of the system’s heritage. The lighting extends themes of visual lift, angular accent and linearity, and succeeds by expressing architectural intent, meeting illuminance, uniformity, and energy targets.

Photography: Joseph Romeo Photography

2015 Award of Citation for Light Installation

Lighting Designer: zeroLUX lighting design: Lana L. Lenar, Robert Van Antwerp, Charles Pavarini III

Architect: Pavarini Design

Owner: Lucas Place Lofts

The focal point of the renovated Lucas Place Lofts, once a garment factory, is a nine-story skylight atrium. Despite the openness of the space, it was dark and lifeless. The project’s interior designer envisioned a custom lighting installation that would evoke debris swirling around the atrium as if tossed about by a tornado. Falling Sticks is composed of 30 nearly invisible individual strands of aircraft cable, supporting six-inch in diameter custom LED luminaires that vary in length from two to six feet, and are randomly placed along each strand. Each tube is illuminated by coiled LED tape for both energy efficiency and longevity, and is connected to a remote driver for easy maintenance.

Photography: Robert Van Antwerp, zeroLUX lighting design

2015 Award of Citation for an Architectural Feature as a Light Source

Lighting Designer: Arup Lighting: Matt Franks, Star Davis, Brian Stacy, Casey Curbow

Architect: James Carpenter Design Associates

Owners: MTA Capital Construction Company & MTA Arts and Design

Light and daylight played a critical role in the design of this transit hub, which serves 11 subway lines and 300,000 commuters daily. A study of the solar geometry of the site informed the location of a 50-foot diameter skylight oculus. Tilted gently toward the south, it allows for more direct sunlight to enter, and during summer months light penetrates as far as two levels below ground. A cable-net structure with reflective panels surrounds the interior of the space below the oculus, reflecting both the direct sun and diffuse skylight, and folding subtle images of the surrounding environment into the space. The hidden electric lighting illuminates the reflector panels, which in turn provide a gentle ambient light in the interior of the station.

Photography: James Ewing Photography & Arup Lighitng: Matt Franks, Zak Kostura

2015 Award of Citation for Facade Detail

Lighting Designer: Tillotson Design Associates: Suzan Tillotson, Thomas Bergeron

Photography: HGEsch Photography, Hans-Georg Esch

Award of Citation for Controls Innovation

Lighting Designer: Claude R. Engle Lighting Consultant: Claude R. Engle III and Claude R Engle IV, John Berg, Tom Trytek and Aaron Mackenzie, Brian Richardson, with John Luhrs and Paul Rabinovitz, John Gebbie and Brian Dunn

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Nicole Dosso

Owners: Port Authority of NY and NJ & The Durst Organization

The entire span of the 408-foot steel spire that tops 1 WTC is illuminated. Designed to be reminiscent of a light house, the summit of the spire features a custom-made rotating beacon with an array of 50W LED modules designed to fit inside a glass capsule. The final uplight design includes 124 LED color-changing fixtures with on-board status monitoring and diagnostic capabilities. The fully integrated control system includes a web-based graphical user interface capable of monitoring the self-diagnostic lighting fixtures, motor assembly, relay panels and weather station. The centralized computer provides various color selections which range from single color to dynamic color sequencing, as well as a “strobe on command” capability.

Photography: Michael Lee Photography , JR Clancy, Bridget Cox, Scott Hali, Barbizon; Benjamin Tevelow, Barbizon

2015 Award of Citation for Lighting Installation

Lighting Designers: Studio 1 Thousand: Kenzan Tsutakawa Chinn & Studio Joseph: Wendy Evans Joseph, Chris Cooper, Wonwoo Park

Architect: Studio Joseph

Owner: Museum of the City of New York

This dynamic, site-specific installation provides the entry of the museum with the feeling of public engagement. Walking the stairs between the entry level and 2nd floor, the effects inherent in the geometry of a uniform, spatial six-inch grid create an array of radiating patterns. To maintain the simplicity of the concept, hand-assembled computer-generated components were used. Starlight is composed of 5,243 double-sided pixels hung on 210 tripartite strands, forming a 15-foot diameter (30 strands) circle in elevation, 42 inches (7 strands) deep in plan. Pixels are constructed from double-sided circuit boards on which white LED chips are mounted. The non-lensed chips provide 4.7 times the luminousity compared to the original chandelier.

Photography: Eduard Hueber/ArchPhoto & Studio Joseph: Wendy Evans Joseph, Wanwoo Park