Architectural Lighting: Educational

Commendable Achievement, Whole Building: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law South Addition

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:17:34 EST

To remain competitive in the drive to attract the brightest students and the best faculty, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law knew it needed to expand its facilities. Inserted into the school's existing courtyard, the new addition houses a café, library stack space, reading and seminar rooms, computer labs, library staff offices, and collection services on four floors.

Commendable Achievement, Whole Building: Milstein Hall, Cornell University

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:17:02 EST

The team of Office for Metropolitan Architecture and Tillotson Design Associates has created an inspiring place for aspiring architects, using elegantly simple fixtures to light three distinct spatial conditions within the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning's new studio building on Cornell University's campus.

Commendable Achievement, Whole Building: Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Princeton University

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:16:51 EST

The Frick Chemistry Laboratory at Princeton University rationally organizes office and laboratory space on either side of an open, central atrium topped by 216 photovoltaic-equipped skylights. The architecture indulges its mechanistic aspects with exposed-steel structural members and mechanical ducting, while also providing warmer touches in the form of wooden screens on the interior.

Best Use of Daylighting: The Sidwell Friends School Meeting House and Arts Center

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:49:19 EST

A Quaker institution, the Sidwell Friends School wanted to transform an old gymnasium into a meeting and worship space. The school hired architects KieranTimberlake to deliver a design that would embody the Quaker ideals of light and simplicity.

Special Citation for Light as an Urban Connector: Midway Crossings, The University of Chicago

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:17:16 EST

The University of Chicago's historic north campus is separated from its new south campus by the Midway, a green expanse that dates back to the 1893 World's Columbian Expedition. While pleasant parkland during the day, at night the area presented the perfect environment for illicit activity.

Mammel Hall, College of Business Administration

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:28:18 EST

Efficient lighting design defines the interior spaces of a new building at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Light Collective

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:42:30 EST

You know good architecture when you see it; it doesn't make a fuss, but rather artfully steps forward and says: “Here I am.” And that is exactly what you experience in the sophisticated design for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) new Media Lab Building in Cambridge, Mass., designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Fumihiko Maki.

Light Mapping

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:08:36 EST

For the past six years, Paul Lewis of the New York–based firm Lewis. Tsurmaki.Lewis (LTL) Architects has taught an Integrated Building Studio at Princeton University's School of Architecture. Along with his colleagues, engineers Nat Oppenheimer of Robert Silman Associates and Mahadev Raman of Arup, Lewis challenges his graduate students to use building performance as a catalyst for design.

The Chartwell School, Seaside, Calif.

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:09:38 EST

Sited on the decommissioned Fort Ord military base in Seaside, Calif., the Chartwell Campus is composed of multiple buildings and connecting outdoor spaces overlooking Monterey Bay.

Most Likely to Succeed

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:02:07 EST

The classroom of the future raises the bar with innovative lighting solutions

Family Ties

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:59:35 EST

The University of Arizona's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences embraces the concept of family and is designed to bring students and faculty together

Westminster Academy

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:13:44 EST

best incorporation of daylight | daylight

School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:13:23 EST

commendable achievement | interior lighting

Cabin Fever

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:37:09 EST

A research facility in the smoky mountains utilizes its surroundings to provide a sustainable design.

RBT Student Light Fixture Competition

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:34:11 EST

It seems fitting that a design competition open to college students should focus on a dorm room. That was the challenge of the 2007 Robert Bruce Thompson Student Light Fixture Competition—to create an attractive, durable dorm room light fixture to address students' general living and study needs.

125th Anniversary Gala

Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:10:21 EST

In May 2006, Linnaea Tillett was approached by Mark Wigley, dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), who was interested in Tillett designing the light installation for Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture's 125th Anniversary Gala.

The Science and Art of Light

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:40:23 EST

Architecture today often is praised for its tectonics, floating volumes, and sensational, gravity-defying stunts of “starchitecture.” Yet, very so often there is a building that inspires descriptions of the sublime, the experiential, and the power of light and architecture to transcend our expectations.

Highlight: Washington Univeristy

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:29:50 EST

An individual and institutional evolution is taking shape on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, and the author of that transformation--Pritzker prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki--is once again at the helm. For the past 46 years the visual arts have occupied three separate buildings on the southwest corner of the campus--the beaux-arts style Givens Hall, home to the school of architecture, its twin Bixby Hall, home to the school of art, and the modernist-inspired Steinberg Hall, Maki's first commission, anywhere.

Process Makes Perfect

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:11:27 EST

High-performance design creates healthy environments for high-performance learning.

A|L Design Awards, Commendable Achievement: Higgins Hall Central Wing

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:44:58 EST

Designed by Steven Holl Architects to reunite the two wings of Pratt Institute's School of Architecture left standing after a devastating fire in 1996, Higgins Hall's new central addition infuses modern character into the school's historic aesthetic and landmark status.