The Robert J. Besal Memorial Education Fund, established in 1983 as a nonprofit trust and dedicated to the advancement of education in illuminating engineering disciplines, has awarded $114,500 to 17 recipients from participating schools for the 2024–2025 academic year. Graduate and undergraduate recipients hail from Colorado State University, Boulder; Kansas State University; Penn State; University…

Tivoli, a leading LED lighting manufacturer with over 50 years of experience and known for its linear lighting options, has announced a stringent sustainability model to include Title 24 compliance, the Declare platform and turtle-safe products. In an effort to assure partners such as architects, builders, contractors, facility owners and lighting specifiers that their projects…

Illuminating NASA’s Next-Generation Spacecraft Systems Despite science fiction tales of galaxies far, far away, the actual edge of space, known as the Von Karman Line, is only 62 miles above sea level. Hollywood’s depictions of space exploration have historically been presented with excitement and exuberance— “Space: the final frontier” and “To infinity…and beyond!” are just…

How does a global investment firm reimagine its corporate headquarters? For the BlackRock team, it started with an ambitious goal— co-locate its 4,000 New York City employees from three separate offices into a single, one-million-square-foot headquarters in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, designed around one of the company’s core principles: “We Are One BlackRock,” a maxim that…

Uspenska Square reconnects with Ukrainian culture Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the industrial city of Dnipro has been the target of multiple missile attacks, damaging residential areas, Dnipro’s International Airport and critical infrastructure. Despite the dangers and uncertainties of war, local residents and businesses have banded together in support of their country. (See…

The Finishing Touches of a Great Architectural Lighting Photo Working as a lighting designer for two decades, I’ve built a career around creating lighting environments by blending light from various sources, angles, colors, textures and intensities. As with any skill, it takes practice and experience to know what types of light sources to use, where…

Presenting “Seven Wonders of the Illuminated World” From “Ancient” to “Natural” and “New,” generations of people across the world have marveled at the various Wonders of the World. As such, it seemed time for LD+A to gather seven esteemed lighting professionals to select “Seven Wonders of the Illuminated World.” Each panelist was tasked with choosing…

The fourth annual ArchLIGHT Summit, taking place September 17-18, continues Dallas Market Center’s leadership in the lighting industry. For decades, the venue has hosted the semi-annual Lightovation, which is the largest residential lighting show in the Western Hemisphere. Now it has established one of the fastest-growing and leading architectural specification shows in the industry with…

Illuminating an Historic Landmark The Three Sisters are three similar self-anchored suspension bridges built in the 1920s spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The bridges have been given formal names to honor important Pittsburgh residents, Roberto Clemente, Andy Warhol, & Rachel Carson. In 2023, Allegheny County wanted to add permanently installed accent lighting…

A one-way bridge in Canada honors local Indigenous past How does society go back in time and right its social injustices? Can it? How does the modern design industry fit into that reconciliation? How can lighting honor the past and serve the present? These questions came into consideration when an iron-truss bridge in downtown Calgary,…

AMBI, a seasoned marketing agency for the built environment helping design brands build unique identities, has released a new report outlining the five key lighting industry trends of the current year. Findings are based on the company’s seven years’ worth of work with multiple leading lighting manufacturers. The trends include details on: Sustainability actions representing…

ETC, a leader in events lighting technology, has opened a new Innovation Centre in Squamish, British Columbia, for the engineers behind the brand’s Echoflex wireless controls products. Manager of Project Management at ETC Lena Sundstedt said, “This new building shows the commitment ETC has to generating new ideas and new products to create an advanced,…

The Virtual Lighting Design (VLD) Community, a global virtual network that empowers, inspires and educates the lighting community, has teamed up with Zhu Rong Awards to create an entirely new design recognition program, Lux Futurum (LuFu). With roots in China, a focus on diversity as well as the meeting of East and West, the LuFu…

"It is so important to look at nature and figure out what is nature telling us,” says Nancy Clanton, PE, FIES, FIALD, LEED Fellow and CEO of sustainable lighting design firm Clanton & Associates. "With electric light, we’re introducing all this light into our daily habits that’s never been here for hundreds of years. It’s…

Lighting Professionals Speak From Experience We’ve all heard the old adage, “If I knew then what I know now….” Hindsight is 20/20, but it’s still a fascinating concept to many of us—if you could speak to the younger version of yourself, what advice or counsel would you impart? I posed the following question to a…