Architectural Lighting: Transportation

Light Speed

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:44:45 EST

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.

Triple Decker

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:09:46 EST

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 developed by New York–based Leni Schwendinger Light Projects in collaboration with architecture firm PKSB.

Happy Landings

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:54:17 EST

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

Biloxi Bay Bridge, Biloxi, Miss.

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:59:17 EST

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

“This Way” Brooklyn Bridge Installation

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:49:59 EST

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 Brooklyn Bridge's pedestrian walkway, where a concealed staircase is cut into the bridge's masonry anchorage.

Government Square Transit Center, Cincinnati

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:35:14 EST

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 the area with little regard to pedestrians and waiting passengers. And if buses got backed up, vehicular flow throughout downtown came to a standstill. With the city's growing concern over an increase in crime in the area and the need for better traffic control, the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA) decided to redesign the space.

Delta Air Lines Terminal A, Boston

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:35:07 EST

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 take them into the future”

A New York State of Mind

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:12:06 EST

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?

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:45:38 EST

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 passengers in transit, the installation is part of local airport authority Aéroports de Montréal's identity program, created to infuse Montreal's character into its airports, and support the city's artistic and cultural development.