Transportation

  • Light Speed

    Lighting designer Galina Zbrizher's solution for illuminating Vancouver's new Canada Line rapid-transit rail system is as straightforward a design as it is complex.

     
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    Triple Decker

    The series of access bridges (three were built in 1950 and a fourth added in 1961) that link the Lincoln Tunnel with the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York have long created a dank and uninviting area along Ninth Avenue. But that now has changed, thanks to an inventive lighting strategy...

     
  • Happy Landings

    Madrid airport's terminal 4 may be high-tech, architecturally, but the effect is humane

     
  • Biloxi Bay Bridge, Biloxi, Miss.

    Challenge: Reconnecting Two Communities Severed by the Destruction of a Bridge During Hurricane Katrina

     
  • “This Way” Brooklyn Bridge Installation

    The result of a competition that was commissioned by New York City's Percent for Art Program and the DUMBO Business Improvement District to commemorate the Brooklyn Bridge's 125th anniversary, the art installation, titled “This Way,” illuminates and directs visitors to the DUMBO entrance of the...

     
  • Government Square Transit Center, Cincinnati

    Government Square has served as downtown Cincinnati's main transit exchange for more than 100 years. However, its previous major renovation, which occurred in the late 1960s, was in dire need of a facelift. The existing design mainly catered to bus traffic, treating the buses as the primary user of...

     
  • Delta Air Lines Terminal A, Boston

    Logan International Airport in Boston currently ranks 20th in the nation in passenger volume, according to its website, and in the mid-1990s it initiated a modernization project, mainly to improve roadways and terminals. To that end, the airport and Delta Air Lines wanted to create “a terminal to...

     
  • A New York State of Mind

    The utterly bearable lightness of being in New York this spring is evident in several new structures, and one classic now topping the charts. This is a great time to walk the sidewalks of Manhattan, from Columbus Circle to the Battery, from Harlem to City Hall Park.

     
  • Are We There Yet?

    Travelers arriving at the montreal-pierre elliott trudeau international Airport in Canada will now be guided down the arrival corridors by You Are Almost There!, a permanent lighting installation by Montreal-based conceptual artist and lighting designer Axel Morgenthaler. Designed to depict...

     
 
 

Most Recent

  • 2013 IALD Awards

    The IALD Awards were presented Apr. 24, 2013, during Lightfair in Philadelphia, at an evening program and reception held at The Crystal Tea Room. The Radiance Award went to Munich-based lighting design firm Pfarré Lighting Design for the Hafencity-University Subway Station in Hamburg, Germany.

     
  • 2013 Lightfair Innovation Awards

    Lightfair’s Innovation Awards program kicked off the Apr. 23 opening of the annual trade show, held this year in Philadelphia. Fifteen products were recognized for their technical prowess. Boldplay, a suspended LED luminaire by Philips received the overall prize for Most Innovative Product of the...

     
  • 2013 GE Edison Awards

    The 30th Annual GE Edison Awards were presented Apr. 22, 2013, during Lightfair in Philadelphia at an evening award program and reception held at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eleven projects were recognized and the highest honor the GE Edison Award was presented to New York-based lighting firm...