Finsbury Avenue Square, London
This portion of Broadgate Estate was transformed with the installation of a 20-metre square lattice, underlit by glass lines containing long-lasting, programmable lighting. The resulting design requires no lamp replacement and uses minimal energy. Underlit glass benches that accent the perimeter, along with an Artistic Licence custom computer control system used to change the colour of the lamp network when visitors walk across the square, create a dynamic look that encourages public access. Featured in mondo*arc 16.
winner: Maurice Brill Lighting Design in London, UK

MetLife Building, New York
The goal of the renovation that began in 1999 was to recapture the incandescent character and soaring heights of the original 1963 Brutalist design, while maintaining low-energy consumption. Custom-made metal halide lamps on 15" centres were used to light the vertical surfaces, highlighting volume while using the same amount of power as the fluorescent lighting of an earlier renovation, but with a vast increase in light. Overall, the entire project uses just four different types of lamps at 1.88 watts per square foot, preserving both the building's original ambience and low energy consumption.
winner: Fisher Marantz Stone in New York, NY

Brown Fine Arts Center, Northampton, Massachusetts
The renovation and expansion of the Brown Fine Arts Center at Smith College creates a welcoming gateway between the arts and the surrounding community. The lighting scheme transformed the outdated centre with a complete overhaul, using a basic geometric vocabulary � a dot, a line, and a plane � to reinforce the strict architectural design. Evenly spaced dots of steplights, a canopy and handrail underlit by lines of exterior light, and planes of glass that glow from the centre's interior lighting, create a warm, welcoming exterior and add rhythm and brightness to the building's street-front entrance.
winner: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design in New York, NY

BMW Autocentre, Munich
With a length of 220 metres and a total retail space of 22,000 square metres, the simple design of this auto store had the challenge of illuminating up to 800 cars with an economical glare-free lighting scheme. For this, a suspended lighting profile was developed, equipped with economic daylight lamps and a custom-made asymmetric reflector system that allows for the illumination of the cars with no distracting reflections on their surfaces. At night, the centre's transparent ramp structure glows from inexpensive outdoor blue fluorescent tubes, creating a huge, neon blue landmark in the north of Munich.
winner: Lichtplanung in Munich, Germany

Post Tower, Bonn
The lighting design's use of "light architecture" reduces the running costs of this 55,000 square metre administration building by 40 percent. The design's visible, web-like architecture, an effect of 2,000 tiny white Ansorg LEDs in six different layouts of stainless steel panels, are covered in frosted glass to protect and enhance the lighting's service life. A futuristic, transparent fa�ade uses Allegorie Trichromique, Martin luminaries and projectors installed in the fa�ade's cavity and programmed to change colour, creating a colourful landmark in the urban nightscape of Bonn.
winner: L-Plan Lighting Design in Berlin, Germany

Galleria renovation, Houston, Texas
The scope of this project included renovating the original 1970 mall, the 1980 addition, and constructing a new two-anchor mall expansion. The challenge was to create a lighting design that integrates the original and new architectural concepts into a stylish, modern environment for shoppers. The lighting design introduced ambient brightness to areas of limited daylight, while theatrical point-source lighting maintains the clean lines in the design and help draw attention to the courts. The result is an overall image of high-fashion opulence.
winner: The Lighting Practice in Philiadelphia, PA

Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
The design of this museum required a transparent connection from the sculpture garden to the building's exterior, allowing a higher level of natural illumination while avoiding shadows in the gallery from surrounding high-rises. With visual transparency came the challenge of reducing high amounts of direct light from the intense Dallas sun. Collaboration with electric lighting and security colleagues resulted in an exterior sunscreen that blocks direct sunlight throughout the year, but allows continual daytime lighting for the gallery from a portion of the north light.
winner: Arup Lighting in New York, NY

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