Events
Water Power
Colorado’s oldest and largest utility embodies environmental stewardship via its revamped operations center. By Samantha Schwirck
Pushing Manufacturers to Go Green
A group of prominent lighting design firms and architects is urging their colleagues to sign on to an initiative that would encourage lighting manufacturers to be more conscious of sustainable…
Ideas for Relo in the ‘New Normal’
It’s no secret that getting a new hire to uproot and move to a new city has become difficult. LD+A columnist Paul Pompeo offers three ideas for hiring managers trying…
Nuckolls Fund Distributes $160,000 for 2021
The second largest annual number of grants and awards in its 32-year history has been distributed by The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education.
Editor’s Note: Our Bill of Rights
What the authors are really describing is light as a right, not a privilege. By Paul Tarricone
Project in Pictures: New Marching Orders
A salute to the past has positioned a California naval base for the future. Located on an island within the San Francisco Bay, Naval Air Station Alameda was decommissioned in…
Education: Say It More Simply
Do we alienate people with our jargon-filled language? By Brienne Musselman
Crossing Over
With a little help from the other side, a Michigan designer turned a ‘clump of dark cement’ into an award-winning bridge for pedestrians, boaters and drivers. By Katie Nale
Adaptive Controls Have a ‘Built-in’ Designer
Imagine walking into a room without any light switches or control panels, and watching as the lighting automatically responds to where you and others are in the space, as well…
Lighting Duo Author Book on Residential Lighting
Beautiful Light: An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting for Homes and Gardens, is now available from publisher Routledge Taylor & Francis.
Hospital Deploys Light for Infection Control
The recent ribbon-cutting on a new Pennsylvania hospital campus offered the latest glimpse into an application of germicidal lighting technology.
With Good Lighting and Justice for All
The concept of ‘environmental justice’ for all communities must extend beyond clean air and water to include well-designed lighting By Edward Bartholomew and Mark Loeffler
How They Did It: “The Hopper Hotel Experience” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
In a 3D re-creation of the iconic Edward Hopper painting “Western Motel,” S. Ryan Schmidt used framing projectors to mimic external daylight and earn an IES Illumination Award of Merit.
How They Did It: The Well
BOLD, LLC used soft, indirect light to create the illusion of natural light in a New York City wellness club, resulting in an urban escape that earned an IES Illumination…
Walking a Fine Line
Architecture and lighting are one single gesture in the new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. By Samantha Schwirck