darc awards 2017 / Architectural

2017

darc awards / architectural

14 SEP TEM B ER 2 0 1 7 / L O N D O N

Welcome...

The 2017 darc awards / architectural carried on the baton from the impressive start that was made by the first dedciated architectural awards event last year. Instead of a combined architectural and decorative lighting awards we have split the structure into two streams so we can dedicate more space to both of these important facets of design.

The first darc awards / decorative had its own darc night in May this year and was also a huge success, bringing creativity to the usual formulaic awards night structure. The 2017 darc awards / architectural process came to an end last night (14th September) with a spectacular event in the wonderful surroundings of MC Motors in London. Light installations, street food, a free bar and a unique presentation format all contributed to a hugely enjoyable and creative evening.

Eight of the light installations will now be moved to B1 in Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square in central London to be displayed at darc room, our London Design Festival lighting specification exhibition on 21-23 September. There will be lots more to see besides the installations. Over 40 lighting brands, a superb lecture programme (including Daan Roosegaarde and Studio Olafur Eliasson) and a unique event concept will ensure this isn’t your run-of-the-mill exhibition, just like our awards.

Back to the awards and without the voters and those that entered the peer-to-peer concept would mean nothing and I’d like to thank all the independent lighting designers and suppliers that participated. 6,000 votes and over 300 entries is a massive stamp of approval for this fresh, subversive and democratic format.

We look forward to your participation in the next darc awards / architectural (as well as the darc awards / decorative).

And we look forward to welcoming you to darc room next week!

Paul James Director, darc awards / darc room

STRUCTURES:

Best Exterior Lighting Scheme Low Budget

WINNER

Pier Mauá Cranes, Brazil Two beautiful and sculptural cranes from the 60’s remains by the port area of Rio de Janeiro’s downtown as a record of a glorious past. Those big structures are located next to the Museum of Tomorrow at Mauá Square, a recently renewed area of the city that has become an important site for the city residents, the cariocas, as well as for tourists. But sadly, those beautiful cranes used to go dead during the night.

These metal characters are well known by the cariocas and certainly every child that has set eyes on one of them, have related its form, shape and size with cartoons like dinosaurs or some other creature of their imagination.

Therefore, the intention of the lighting, designed

by Brazil-based LD Studio, is to give life to these big metal structures in way that allows people to go back to childhood and give wings to their imagination.

The designers’ approach to this lighting concept consists in revealing the main structure, the ‘animal’s legs and upper body’, using warm

white LED floods, with different intensity and beam angles, while taking the opportunity of the existent transparency of its operator’s cabins and along with the crane’s boom, the ‘arms’ of the imaginary creature, using an LED RGB technology that adds movement and pulsation to this character we are creating.

Another layer of communication of this RGB technology, relates to special awareness dates like pink October, blue November, Christmas or any other colour-related special date.

It is quite interesting to cite a quite old reference on which LD Studio were also inspired. The lighting composition of ‘The City Of Bridges’ at Cleveland, Ohio, from lighting designer Ross de Alessi in 1996, as a celebration of the bicentennial of the city.

The freedom on the use of colour and movement at the bridge’s huge structures have made a strong impact on a lot of people that have had the opportunity to gather and enjoy the night scene by the water.

Project: Pier Mauá Cranes Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lighting Design: LD Studio, Brazil Client: Pier Mauá Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini, Philips, Lemca

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Ensdorf, Germany Lighting Design: Lichtvision, Germany Client: Foerderverein BergbauErbeSaar Architect: pfeiffer sachse architekten, Germany Main Lighting Suppliers: Insta

Location: Berlin, Germany Lighting Design: Studio De Schutter, Germany Client: Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Oberschule Main Lighting Suppliers: Unikat

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Location: Tartu, Estonia Lighting Design: Tartu Valgus, Estonia Client: Tartu Valgus Main Lighting Suppliers: LightSky AquaBeam, Lumenpulse

Location: Querétaro, Mexico Lighting Design: Diseño en Iluminación Arquitectónica, Mexico Client: Ma. Esther Jimenéz Main Lighting Suppliers: LJ Iluminación

Saarpolygon, Germany

Tartu Cathedral, Estonia

MELO – Custom-made Sign for Listed Building, Germany

Casa Fuerte, Mexico

STRUCTURES:

Best Exterior Lighting Scheme High Budget

WINNER

Strasbourg Cathedral, France Considered to be one of the finest examples of Gothic architecture, Strasbourg Cathedral stands head and shoulders above the skyline of the surrounding French city. Now, thanks to a remarkable new lighting design from L’Acte Lumiere, the building’s splendour is fully realised throughout the night.

Strasbourg Cathedral is located in the heart of the Grande Île, an island that lies at the historic centre of the north-eastern French city and has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1988.

The cathedral itself has been under protection as a heritage building since the late 1800s, and is one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in France, with its high silhouette dominating the city’s skyline. Still deeply immersed in a medieval urban structure, the cathedral is the symbol of Alsace, and its four million visitors per year make it the second most visited cathedral in the whole of France, second only to the Notre Dame in Paris.

The lighting for Strasbourg Cathedral reveals a new facet of the church that largely exceeds the framework for the urban area of Strasbourg.

Each night, the cathedral is wrapped in a soft and balanced light and shadow. This glowing light is designed to respect the edifice and urban context in which it is integrated. It does this by magnifying the exceptional patrimonial and architectural wealth of the cathedral, such as its remarkable frontages and sculptures.

After deep consideration of the sacred and

iconographic facets and meanings of the structure, designers chose to create a precise illumination, balancing shadow and light. The light is produced entirely by LEDs, and is made up of 580 lighting devices. Every projector is dimmable for the perfect quantities of light, revealing the splendour of the building, the distinctive colour of its sandstone and its intricate masonry and layers. These elements are DMX controlled by nine electrical power boxes, which allows the lighting designers to tune the luminous power and colour temperature in order to precisely match the colours of the stonework.

Approximately fourteen kilometres of cable and 400 light sources are installed on the building, and the entire installation was completed without any drilling into the stone, only mortar joints – an important requirement for the project set by the heritage committee. On top of this, all of the bespoke clamping sleeves, collars, fixture corsets and luminaires were painted onsite with an accurate colour to match the stone.

As a result of these considerations, the entire installation can be removed without causing any damage to the structure.

None of the luminaires, except those in ground, are visible from the exterior, resulting in a balanced, quiet and ‘chiselled’ light, and a magnificent, poetic glow of the building.

Project: Strasbourg Cathedral Location: Strasbourg, France Lighting Design: L’Acte Lumiere, France Client: City of Strasbourg Main Lighting Suppliers: Lumenpulse, Louss, Insta, Radiant, WE-EF

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Shanghai, China Lighting Design: Studio Illumine, China Client: Shanghai Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Development Corp Architect: gmp Architekten, Germany Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini, Philips Lighting

Location: Edinburgh, UK Lighting Design: KSLD, UK Client: City of Edinburgh Council Main Lighting Suppliers: Mike Stoane Lighting, acdc

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Location: Chemnitz, Germany Lighting Design: Lichtvision, Germany, in collaboration with Random International, UK Client: Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen Architect: GrĂźntuch Ernst Architekten, Germany Main Lighting Suppliers: Traxon Technologies Europe

Location: Nanjing, China Lighting Design: Brandston Partnership Inc., China Client: Nanjing Hexi New Tower State-owned Asset Management Group Holdings Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects, UK Main Lighting Suppliers: Philips Color Kinetics

CaoHeJing Kehui Tower, China

Swarm Study / IX, Germany

Scott Monument, UK

Nanjing Youth Olympic Centre, Eye footbridge & Administration, China

PLACES:

Best Interior Lighting Scheme Low Budget

WINNER

German Ivory Museum, Germany Through the passion for travelling and collection of Count Franz’ I. zu Erbach-Erbach (17541823), the Odenwald town of Erbach became the centre of German ivory carving and had exhibited its extensive collections at the Werner Borchers Halle for many years. As of autumn 2016, a small but exquisite part of the ivory sculptures has found a new home in the Erbach Palace.

The exceptional exhibition concept of the architects frees itself from the building envelope and presents the collection in blacked-out rooms painted in anthracite. Across this almost disintegrated space leads a pier that offsets the different floor levels and interconnects the showcases with a proverbial red thread. Like luminous glass cubes, the display cases are lined up on the walkway.

The lower third of the showcase glazing is lightly frosted and fitted with edge lighting, concealed in the base. As a result, the frosting assumes a gentle brightness that shrouds the object holders like a mist.

Additionally, small profiles with miniature projectors are located in the upper edge of the showcase. These offer an accentuated and

glare-free orchestration of the exhibits. This evokes the impression that the figurines emerge from a sort of fog.

The pier and its low balustrade are clad in red leather. The walking surface is emphasised by a concealed LED light ribbon, integrated in its lateral upstand, transforming it into a seemingly suspended path in an intangible, almost imperceptible spatial envelope.

One of the spaces uses existing historical closets for the exhibition of many small objects, fixed to the fleece-clad rear wall. These are set in scene by means of concealed linear light sources inside the furniture.

The last space sees off the visitor with a glimpse at unprocessed elephant and mammoth tusks, thus making the controversial side of the exhibition palpable. Miniature projectors on the ceiling underline the drama of this exhibit.

As a whole, the lighting designers underscore the contrasting exhibition scenery through the use of hidden, glare-free light sources, brilliantly orchestrating its treasures.

Project: German Ivory Museum Location: Erbach, Germany Lighting Design: Licht Kunst Licht, Germany Client: Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten Hessen (Administration of National Palaces and Gardens of Hesse) Architect: Sichau & Walter Architekten BDA, Germany Main Lighting Suppliers: LED Linear, XAL

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Sydney, Australia Lighting Design: Steensen Varming, Australia Client: Corval Architect: HDR| Rice Daubney, Australia Interior Design: HDR| Rice Daubney, Australia Main Lighting Suppliers: Klik Systems, Dynalite

Location: Melilla, Spain Lighting Design: DCI Diseño y Consultoría de Iluminación, Spain Client: Diocesis de Malaga Architect: Chacel 8 Architecture, Spain Architectural Technologist: Alberto Maldonado, Spain Main Lighting Suppliers: Reggiani, Ilumarte, Lluria, Astro Lighting, Lucide Photography: Jesús Granada, Spain

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Location: Rånåsfoss, Norway Lighting Design: ÅF Lighting, Norway Client: Akershus energi Architect: LPO, Norway Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini, OSRAM, ERCO, Fagerhult

Location: London, UK Lighting Design: DHA Designs, UK Client: BXR London Architect: Studio Webb Architects, UK Interior Design: Bergman Interiors, UK Main Lighting Suppliers: Factorylux, EcoLED, Architainment

Albert Avenue Lobby, Australia

Rånåsfoss Powerplant, Norway

Inmaculada Concepción Church, Spain

BXR London

PLACES:

Best Interior Lighting Scheme High Budget

WINNER

Bahá’í Temple of South America, Chile The Bahá’í Temple for South America, located on the foothills of the Andes, is the eighth and last temple built by the Bahá’í community in the world.

The architectural project from HPA Architects was designed by Siamak Hariri as a singular object, a flower of light composed by nine transparent petals. The building has a steel structure covered in the interior by a translucent white marble and in the exterior by a cast glass cladding.

During the day the building receives dynamic daylighting from the central oculus and from the nine vertical windows situated between the wings, as well as diffused light from the translucent wings.

The lighting design project had to fulfill two main goals: create an exterior scene that will show the transparency of the materials and show the temple as a light emitting element, while the interior lighting scenes had to generate a warm, monastic and intimate ambience favorable to meditation and prayer.

Lighting interior effects also had to enhance the amazing architecture elements, forms and materials: wood, marble, bronze, glass, without

adding new elements to the pure predominant architectural elements. Location and design of the lighting tools was extremely important.

The only technical fittings that could be seen are located on the vertical bronze profiles that connect the windows to marble petals and have a custom-designed bronze housing, they create the exterior effect and light the top part of the nine petals.

The main interior lighting effect, which is an indirect light, is executed from the back of the benches from the mezzanine with very small elliptical distribution spotlights, that also produce a grazing effect on the marble petals, highlighting their complex shape and materiality.

The only two ‘visible’ luminaires are decorative and have been specially designed, the first one, a pendant that hangs from the marble petals, lights of the stair and the ‘reading place’. The second, a floor lamp resembling a candle, is located in between benches from the first floor, complementing the general indirect lighting effect and restoring the human scale in this 30-metre high building.

Project: Bahá’í Temple of South America Location: Santiago, Chile Lighting Design: Limarí Lighting Design, Chile Client: Asamblea Espiritual Bahá’í de Chile Architect: HPA Architects, Canada Main Lighting Suppliers: DGA, Lutron, Janmar

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Beijing, China Lighting Design: Beijing United Artists Lighting Design, China Client: Harbin Songbei Investment and Development Group Architect: Yansong Ma, Qun Dang, Hayano Yosuke, China Interior Design: MAD Architects, Shenzhen Keyuan Construction Group, China Main Lighting Suppliers: CDN, StrongLED, Minghia, Rise, Thorn, Geosheen, AD

Location: London, UK Lighting Design: Arup, UK Client: Science Museum Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects, UK Main Lighting Suppliers: Mike Stoane, iGuzzini, Optolum, LED Linear, Zumtobel

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Location: Barcelona, Spain Lighting Design: artec3 Studio, Spain Client: Albert AdriĂ Projectes Architect: RCR Aranda Pigem Vilalta Arquitectes, Spain Main Lighting Suppliers: Davide Groppi, Lamp, Lutron

Location: Seoul, Korea Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting, USA Client: Hyundai Capital Interior Design: Vitra, Italy Architect: Gensler, USA Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini

Harbin Opera House, China

Enigma, Spain

Mathematics The Winton Gallery Science Museum, UK

Hyundai Capital Convention Hall, Korea

SPACES:

Best Landscape Lighting Scheme Low Budget

WINNER

Cleveland House Canal Tunnel, UK Enlightened was asked by a Bath property developer to provide lighting design and installation in the canal tunnel that ran beneath the historic Georgian Cleveland House.

The original brief from the developers specified two factors they wanted a solution for, firstly to provide practical utility lighting along the tunnel’s length that would allow for safer passage, and secondly to provide an enhanced overall aesthetic that would showcase the beauty and construction quality of the tunnel’s historic industrial engineering. It was crucial that the installation was as low impact and non-invasive as possible, with a clean and unobtrusive visibility profile when not in use.

Enlightened saw this as an ideal opportunity to showcase the versatility of fully controllable RGBW LED lighting that would be able to provide simple, clean utility lighting but also afforded the client the ability to create an architectural light feature of striking impact and beauty.

They chose Anolis ArcLine Outdoor 20MC as it provides excellent coverage whilst allowing full remote programmable control over the lighting colour and temperature through full RGBW, LED components. Control of the seventeen Anolis ArcLine lights was provided by the installation of ArcPower 384 remote drivers.

As the tunnel is in constant use by the general public, these required installation in a secure and safe position along the tunnels length.

By mounting them in an out of reach position along the tunnels roof as close to one side as possible allowed designers to wash two thirds of the tunnel’s arch in a curtain of controlled programmable light that could be used continuously with minimum maintenance for daily utility lighting, or as a light installation with the ability to transform what was once a dark and foreboding space into a stunning display of vivid colour washes and chases.

To provide flexible and intuitive control over the lighting states available, Enlightened installed a fully programmable user-friendly control panel, the Sunlite S.T.I.C.K KUI, in the main house, with preset lighting states configured to best complement and exhibit the tunnel’s architectural beauty. This was programmed to best utilise static colours and rainbow scroll chases.

Enlightened have collaborated with many curators of historic buildings of national importance throughout their history, and have lit many of Bath’s most iconic sites, including Bath Abbey, for both temporary and permanent installations.

Project: Cleveland House Canal Tunnel Location: Bath, UK Lighting Design: Enlightened, UK Client: Trevor Osbourne Property Group Main Lighting Suppliers: Anolis, Nicolaudie

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Farum, Denmark Lighting Design: ÅF Lighting, Denmark Client: Furesø Municipality Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini

Location: Milan, Italy Lighting Design: PHT Lighting Design, USA Client: Interni Design Magazine Architect: SHoP Architects, USA Main Lighting Suppliers: L&L Luce&Light

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Location: Mexico City, Mexico Lighting Design: Diseño en Iluminación Arquitectónica, Mexico Main Lighting Suppliers: Simes, LJ Iluminacion

Location: London, UK Lighting Design: Speirs + Major, UK Client: The Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal Main Lighting Suppliers: Mike Stoane Lighting

Tunnel at Farum City Square, Denmark

Bosque en Ajusco, Mexico

Wave/Cave, Italy

Mary Seacole Memorial Statue, UK

SPACES:

Best Landscape Lighting Scheme High Budget

WINNER

Nova Lumina, Canada Moment Factory’s goal when working on Nova Lumina was to create a new, innovative tourist attraction in the Gaspésie region, as the Economic Development Association of RocherPercé commissioned the multimedia design and production studio to create a new Lumina for the town of Chandler.

Moment Factory’s Lumina projects are unique illuminated night walk experiences that aim to bring people together in a new format of outdoor immersive experience. Along an enchanted trail of 1.5-kilometres, visitors explore the light saturated forest using a custom connected object in search of scintillating fallen stars.

Encountering playful surprises at every turn, they find and collect stars to launch into the sky during the closing sequences of the experience.

This project was born out of a desire to create a new type of light-based placemaking attraction in famously beautiful landscape of Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula. Local stakeholders wanted to attract new visitorship to breathe new economic and cultural life into the local economy.

An equally important goal was to create something that locals will enjoy just as much as tourists.

Respectful and seamless integration of lighting and multimedia equipment into the natural environment was therefore of paramount

importance. The site was carefully surveyed and assessed to make sure to adapt the media features and technologies to achieve the lowest possible impact on the local ecosystem.

The creative process for Nova Lumina involved close strategic collaboration with many project stakeholders. After an intense research and story ideation phase, the creative and design team began to ideate and prototype an extensive range of potential multimedia and interactive light art zones. Gradually, the experience came together as the story, content production, interactive prototypes and music converged into a cohesive Lumina experience.

Over many months a large team of lighting, visual and sound designers, animators and programmers worked hard to design and refine the interactive and pre-rendered audiovisual content. Many weeks of on-site integration and testing followed, and finally Nova Lumina was brought to life in mid-July of 2016.

Project: Nova Lumina Location: Quebec, Canada Lighting Design: Moment Factory, Canada Client: Corporation du développement économique (CDE) du territoire du RocherPercé Main Lighting Suppliers: Custom LED fixtures designed by Moment Factory, Christie Digital, Panasonic

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Chicago, USA Lighting Design: Schuler Shook, USA Client: Chicago Department of Transportation Architect: Ross Barney Architects, USA; Sasaki, USA Main Lighting Suppliers: Bega, Hydrel, LED Linear, MCI Group, Winona Lighting

Location: Niagra Falls, USA/Canada Lighting Design: Salex, Canada Client: Niagra Parks Commission Main Lighting Suppliers: Stanley Electric

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Location: Istanbul, Turkey Lighting Design: Skira, Croatia Client: Yapi Merkezi, Kitoko Lighting Architect: Urbis, Croatia Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini

Location: Suzhou, China Lighting Design: Unolai Lighting Design & Associates, China Client: Octave, IMC Group Architect: Tsao & McKown, USA; Neri&hu Design and Research Office, China Interior Design: Tsao & McKown, USA; Neri&hu Design and Research Office, China Main Lighting Suppliers: Kreon, WAC, CK Lighting, Deco, luci, AZ, Philips, DEEN

Chicago Riverwalk, USA

Eurasia Tunnel, Turkey

Niagra Falls Illumination, USA/Canada

Sangha by Octave, China

ART:

Best Light Art Scheme Low Budget

WINNER Heart Beat, UK

GNI projects was commissioned in December 2016 to create a new exterior light art installation, Heart Beat, for the Lightwaves festival in Salford Quays. Heart Beat encourages visitors to make a connection of love or friendship, by joining hands in front of the sculpture to complete the ‘circuit’ and reveal the symbol of the heart.

Heart Beat is an extension of the GNI projects light loves collection, where the team have experimented with iconic heart imagery created in various illuminated media and for various events. The heart itself is only visible from one viewing angle, and for five seconds, after people have activated it by joining hands or kissing.

The installation measures 3x3x9m; when viewed from the side consists of an alwayspulsing heart beat. The beating 3D core of the sculpture indicates life and attracts visitors to explore the piece by walking around and experiencing the abstract forms from various viewing angles. When ‘heart mode’ is activated external viewers can see many different perspectives of the same sculpture. Sometimes they see totally random distantly spaced lines, sometimes swarms of angular crossing lines and sometimes fragments of the heart, or a heart broken in two pieces by the pulse. Only people drawn together at the optimal vantage point see the heart in its true form.

The piece was conceived to be publicly accessible to all, bringing people of all ages, connections, races and religions together, with

positive energy, and since its first showing in Salford the sculpture has also been shown at ‘Lights in Jerusalem’.

GNI projects were moved by the public reaction to the work, seeing parents and children, young couples and older couples, friends and entire families, joining together with smiling faces to activate the heart, and the piece has also been used as a location for a marriage proposal.

The suspended elements that sketch the imagery are not electrified; they are made from anodised aluminium illuminated by highly saturated narrow focused red spotlights from below. These spotlights are divided into two groups. The first group an ‘S’ shaped swathe that follows the ECG pulse, chasing to create the drama and pulsing animation, and the second group switched on by activating the heart shaped sensor pads by joining hands. The sensors are too far apart to activate alone, and cannot be activated without being joined via the visitor’s body resistance, promoting connection to each other and the art itself.

All light fittings were bespoke manufactured with precise optics and long snoots to minimise their presence and any potential glare from all pedestrian viewing angles, allowing the heart and pulse to take prominence. The light fittings are DMX controlled and heart elements are hung by hand on site by the GNI projects team to ensure the heart is accurately rendered for the viewer.

Project: Heart Beat Location: Salford Quays, UK Lighting Design: GNI Projects, UK Client: Quays Culture Main Lighting Suppliers: Radiant Lighting, Nicolaudie

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Quebec, Canada Lighting Design: Lightspace, Netherlands Client: AxeNeo7

Location: Santiago, Chile Lighting Design: DIAV, Chile Client: Galería Gabriela Mistral Architect: María José Ramos, Chile Interior Design: Macarena Ruiz Tagle, Chile Main Lighting Suppliers: Philips Color Kinetics

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Location: Eskilstuna, Sweden Lighting Design: ÅF Lighting, Sweden Client: Eskilstuna Municipality Main Lighting Suppliers: Lumenpulse

Location: London, UK Lighting Design: Liz West, UK Client: Natural History Museum Architect: Nissen Richards Studio, UK Main Lighting Suppliers: LED Linear

Interlaced, Canada

Story Wall Eskilstuna, Sweden

Perfect Sunsets, Chile

Our Spectral Vision, UK

ART:

Best Light Art Scheme High Budget

WINNER Twisted, Croatia

The Zagreb Festival of Lights was held for the first time this year in March. The lighting installation Twisted was a part of the program and it was designed as a site-specific object enhanced by RGB lines that are integrated into the supporting structure. This installation was experimenting with people’s perception of movement and their sense of space while walking through a 30-metre long pavilion. The lighting, the unusual architectural shape of the object, and the fog effect are the key elements that influence the spatial orientation, making this walk a unique experience.

The pavilion is made of black painted steel and white lexan. It was constructed in sections in order to be assembled and dismantled with ease. This art object can be moved and placed on squares or anywhere suitable for an object this size. The RGB lines are controlled with DMX protocol so the lighting scheme can be programmed in a variety of scenes. The dazzling light attracts the visitors and during the several festival nights thousands of people passed through the pavillion. The reactions were very positive and people’s reaction were stimulating also for the Tourist board of Pula, this Twisted pavilion will be part of the Pula Festival of Lights which will be held in September.

Project: Twisted Location: Zagreb, Croatia Lighting Design: Skira, Croatia Client: Zagreb Tourist Board, Limgea Main Lighting Suppliers: Klus Design

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Montreal, Canada Lighting Design: Moment Factory, Canada Client: Fabrique de la Paroisse Notre-Dame de MontrĂŠal Main Lighting Suppliers: Panasonic

Location: London, UK Lighting Design: EQ2 Light, UK Artist: Carpenter | Lowings, UK Client: Stanhope (on behalf of Mitsubishi Estate, London) Building Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects, UK

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Location: New York City, USA Lighting Design: The Light Lab, UK Client: Moynihan Station Development Corporation, New York Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, USA Artist: miriamandtom, UK Main Lighting Suppliers: The Light Lab

Location: Shanghai, China Lighting Design: ECA2, France Client: Shanghai OCT Ltd Architect: ECA2, France Main Lighting Suppliers: ECA2

AURA, Canada

Skyscape, Penn Station, New York, USA

Folded Light, UK

Lake of Illusions, China

EVENT:

Best Creative Lighting Event

WINNER

Winter Lights at Canary Wharf, UK For the third year running, the Winter Lights Festival brought 30 spectacular innovative, artworks and installations to Canary Wharf, many of them interactive or responsive. As a collection the 30 pieces showcased works by some of the most inventive and exciting international artists working with Light Art today.

Many of the works shown – Angels of Freedom, (Israel) Luma Paint (Germany), OVO, (Belgium) Horizontal Interference (Poland), Digital Skins (Canada) Nonotak (France), Origin (Germany) and Gregory St Pierre (US) – had never been exhibited in the UK before, making this year a truly unique experience for visitors to see works from far away, where interaction was the theme of the displays.

In particular, there was also an indoor curated section of works, in the newly constructed Crossrail Station, which formed a gallery of twelve projects. Most festivals focus on works outdoors, but the empty station gave organisers an opportunity to do something very unique for a Light Festival. Liz West, (UK) presented Our Spectral Vision, whilst Marcus Lyall’s (UK) On Your Wavelength was a mind-powered laser and sound installation of over 20,000 LEDs. Max Patte (NZ) exhibited his Haze Series of illuminated works based on views from an airplane window. Phillip Mohr & Selektivton, created a truly unique interactive installation, Origin using the electrical capacity produced by the body.

Elsewhere, Angels of Freedom, by Merav Etan and Gaston Zahr, contained a deep underlying message discouraging discrimination through interaction. Five giant wings with white halos invite people to turn into angels through the power of photography and social media.

The large Geometric structure, OVO (OVO Collective, Belgium) immersed visitors in unique and beautiful light structures.

Visitors were invited to put their painting skills to the test in Mateo Mounier’s Digital Skins, creating compositions of bright colour and pattern. Luma Paint Light Graffiti (Lichtfaktor feat. Helge Bomber Steinmann), provided a live painting canvas. Bringing a further element to the fore, Water Wall (Gregory St. Pierre) used a water spray screen to interact with visitors.

For contemplation, The Garden of Floating Words by Elisa Artesero (UK) evoked a peaceful note, giving the impression that a cluster of glowing neon words floated in the foliage of Jubilee Park, creating a poem of transience.

BLOOM by Squidsoup (UK) also had a calming effect made up of a thousand spheres of light, each bobbing gently in the wind. One piece drew attention to world issues, created by Mike Stephen (UK) and school children, Liter of Light, highlighted the need to give light to undeveloped countries. An exhibition by world famous artist Lillian Lijn (UK) featured spectacular sculptural works using light was on display in the Lobby of One Canada Square.

Event: Winter Lights at Canary Wharf Location: London, UK Organiser: Keith Watson Main Partners: Canary Wharf Group Main Sponsors: Canary Wharf Group

www.darcawards.com/architectural

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Location: Miyagi, Japan Organiser: Tensyukaku Nature Park Main Partners: Kaori Umeda

Location: Cambridge, UK Organiser: Cambridge Live, UK Main Partners: Arup, Panasonic, Cooledge, Light Motif Main Sponsors: Bouygues UK, HSL, Lumenpulse, SGM, Pearce Hire, Reggiani, Lumie

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Location: Kronach, Germany Organiser: Kronach Creativ Main Partners: Hochschule Wismar, Germany; Politecnico Torino, Italy; Andrea Mantello, Architect; Clemens Grapentin, Architect/Lighting Designer; Michael Bamberger, Lighting Designer; Prof. Römhild; Dr. Ashraf Nessim, Dipl. Ing. Michael Müller; Hochschule Coburg; Ain Shams University Cairo; Lichtplanner +, Sabine de Schutter Main Sponsors: ERCO, Hess, iGuzzini

Location: Barcelona and Madrid, Spain Organiser: Fluvia Main Partners: Michela Mezzavilla / reMM Studio Main Sponsors: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

AKIU Night Museum, Japan

Kronach In Lights, Germany

e-Luminate Cambridge Festival, UK

Light & People 2016 “Luz y Arte”, Spain

KIT:

Best Architectural Lighting Products Interior Luminaires

WINNER

CoeLux ST – CoeLux Imagine the warm light of the sun glimpsing into the room, lighting it up, illuminating objects and casting their shadows, blue-tinged by the diffused light of the sky.

This is CoeLux ST: a fairly compact module, suitable for many different settings, creating an artificial window facing a luminous sky, traversed by the rays of a bright sun.

The comfort of offices, meeting rooms, lobbies, waiting rooms, stores, spas, gyms, etc., and also of lifts, ship cabins and clean rooms, as well as any other room deprived of natural light, is thoroughly enhanced by CoeLux ST. No matter how large or small the space is, you will always experience an infinite depth beyond the window and a unique sense of opening towards

the vast expanse of the outdoors.

The main distinguishing feature of CoeLux ST amidst the CoeLux range of products is that here the sun is not directly visible. Sun rays reach the eye after being reflected, diffused, refracted and diffracted by the louvre, miming the interaction of the sunlight with clouds, water, foliage, snow etc.

Alternatively, they may only hit the window lightwell and make it shine as stone-walls reflecting natural sunlight. CoeLux ST qualifies as a genuine window, not just a lamp. It reproduces the full depth of the sky even when the light is extremely dimmed. By properly tuning in CoeLux ST with ambient light, a great variety of morning, noon, evening and

night scenarios can be achieved, successfully reproducing the experience of a real window all through the day and night.

CoeLux ST is available in three versions (NAOS, TIVANO and IBLA) featuring different interface types screening the eyes from the artificial sky.

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TILE Exterior – Cooledge Cooledge TILE Exterior is a wet location LED system that frees light from the constraints of fixtures to illuminate any architectural geometry, scale with ease, and give designers entirely new ways to accentuate building facades without ‘spill light’ within city skyscapes.

Designed as a complete IP65 rated system, TILE Exterior’s robust, modular, thin, and flexible form scales easily to cover large surface areas while a set of smaller-sized, pre-sealed Fit pieces configures easily around angles, corners and building obstacles such as standoffs, pipes and cable penetrations to seamlessly illuminate exterior architectural structures. This means that unlike other exterior products that must be cut to accommodate site obstacles, TILE Exterior has no such requirement and therefore maintains the integrity of the original waterresistant seal.

Unlike traditional light sources such as standard wash, flood or grazing applications used to light building façades, TILE Exterior integrates light with building surfaces to make luminous architecture entirely possible and fundamentally changes the way light can be fully expressed in design. When paired with wide-ranging diffusion materials, such as glass, acrylic and translucent stone, TILE Exterior creates luminous surfaces

for façades, canopies, entrances (including arches and columns) and large-scale printed graphics. TILE Exterior therefore presents an alternative and sustainable model for exterior lighting applications by freeing light from the constraints of fixtures to uniformly illuminate building fronts completely from within.

The entire TILE Exterior system including light sheets, connectors, cables, and LED drivers is rated for wet location environments Moisture resistant snap connectors maintain the simplicity of tool-less connections unique to Cooledge TILE products. Proprietary IP65 connectors incorporate an innovative ergonomic cover that facilitates easy installation.

Constant lumen output and high colour consistency ensure seamless illumination through exterior surface materials. Available in 600lm and 300lm versions with a typical two SDCM colour uniformity that enables setback distances low enough to fit within the available space associated with the standoffs and supports for commonly used exterior diffuser materials.

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Pier Mauá Cranes, Brazil Two beautiful and sculptural cranes from the 60’s remains by the port area of Rio de Janeiro’s downtown as a record of a glorious past. Those big structures are located next to the Museum of Tomorrow at Mauá Square, a recently renewed area of the city that has become an important site for the city residents, the cariocas, as well as for tourists. But sadly, those beautiful cranes used to go dead during the night.

These metal characters are well known by the cariocas and certainly every child that has set eyes on one of them, have related its form, shape and size with cartoons like dinosaurs or some other creature of their imagination.

Therefore, the intention of the lighting, designed

by Brazil-based LD Studio, is to give life to these big metal structures in way that allows people to go back to childhood and give wings to their imagination.

The designers’ approach to this lighting concept consists in revealing the main structure, the ‘animal’s legs and upper body’, using warm

white LED floods, with different intensity and beam angles, while taking the opportunity of the existent transparency of its operator’s cabins and along with the crane’s boom, the ‘arms’ of the imaginary creature, using an LED RGB technology that adds movement and pulsation to this character we are creating.

Another layer of communication of this RGB technology, relates to special awareness dates like pink October, blue November, Christmas or any other colour-related special date.

It is quite interesting to cite a quite old reference on which LD Studio were also inspired. The lighting composition of ‘The City Of Bridges’ at Cleveland, Ohio, from lighting designer Ross de Alessi in 1996, as a celebration of the bicentennial of the city.

The freedom on the use of colour and movement at the bridge’s huge structures have made a strong impact on a lot of people that have had the opportunity to gather and enjoy the night scene by the water.

Project: Pier Mauá Cranes Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lighting Design: LD Studio, Brazil Client: Pier Mauá Main Lighting Suppliers: iGuzzini, Philips, Lemca

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