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February 19, 2008
Dear Readers, Lighting in the urban realm is no longer just the jurisdiction of engineers. Cities are becoming increasingly aware that their streets, buildings, and skylines take on entirely new dimensions at night. While few cities in today's volatile economy have the luxury of dedicated budgets directed toward illumination schemes, numerous municipalities are finding the available means to develop lighting strategies that best suit the needs of their particular urban environments while utilizing the expertise of lighting designers. With the Jan/Feb 2008 issue, at the start of our 22nd year, ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING visits five cities—New York; San Luis Potosi, Mexico; Paris; Philadelphia; and Eindhoven, the Netherlands—each of which explores a different urban lighting approach. The discussion is two-fold, offering examples of how light interacts with a variety of city typologies and examining how lighting can be used as a planning element working in unison with social, economic, and political strategies to define a city's persona. Whether it is a single building, a lighting spectacle, or a master plan requiring multiyear phased implementation, urban design is a matter of scale, knowing how to marry broad strokes with detailed gestures. And a quick reminder about important deadline dates for upcoming editorial initiatives:
So read on—excellence in lighting design awaits you.
Elizabeth Donoff Highlight | New Museum of Contemporary Art Conceived as a series of shifting stacked volumes wrapped in aluminum mesh, the New Museum of Contemporary Art is a vertical study in place-making. Its three distinct windowless galleries—18-, 21-, and 24-feet-high, respectively—are at once both part of and separate from the surrounding, rapidly gentrifying Bowery neighborhood. Master Plan | San Luis PotosiLighting links the city's historic past to the present and restores a sense of civic pride. Master Plan | ParisAn integral part of Paris' urban redevelopment, a new lighting master plan is one for the people. Master Plan | PhiladelphiaInnovative urban lighting plans are revitalizing the form and character of the Center City District. Master Plan | EindhovenAn integrated approach to urban lighting melds Eindhoven's past, present, and future. Briefs » | Company Buzz » | Calendar » | Industry Exchange »
Project | Times Square New Year's Eve Ball, New York City
The Times Square New Year's Eve ball might have looked somewhat different this past December. To honor the ball's 100th anniversary, lighting designer Paul Gregory and his team at New York City–based Focus Lighting were asked to update the ball's design utilizing light-emitting diode (LED) technology and triangular crystal tiles from Waterford Crystal. Project | The Golden Age of Couture, London Looking for a theatrical effect, exhibition and interior design company Land Design Studio asked David Atkinson Lighting Design (DALD) to create the lighting scheme for "The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957," a recent exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). Method | Coloring A Room With LightEmploying color in lighting design. Technology | Manufacturer Claims Abound in the Development of LED TechnologyA number of manufacturers creating products featuring light-emitting diode (LED) technology boast that they are offering the best in terms of brightness, efficacy, life expectancy, light output, thermal capability—the list goes on. |
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