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The Long Journey Home

More than 10 years in the making, the First Americans Museum celebrates the culture of Oklahoma’s Native ancestors “It took over a decade to make it real, but it was…
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Tunable White Lights Provide Myriad Benefits

The pandemic has completely revolutionized the way we think about offices, remote working and employees’ workplace needs. While many employees have enjoyed the benefits of working from home for the…
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Project in Pictures: Rural Retreat

Back to nature and back to opulence are the twin selling points at the Emser Thermenhotel in the German town of Bad Ems. The team of 4a Architekten and lighting…
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Born Again

In San Francisco, a Romanesque church welcomes a new congregation Even in a city like San Francisco, where creativity defines the culture and unexpected forms of art can be found…
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Tools of the Trade: Taking the Labor Out of Lighting

Can an expensive light fixture save your project money and keep your design intact? Definitely! The key is to trim the cost of labor on the job site, which has…
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Editor’s Note: Up and At ‘Em

I don’t like Daylight Saving Time. There, I said it. I spent the past winter in Southwest Florida. For the first two months, this literally meant “rise and shine,” as…
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Museum on the Go

Luminaires are in constant motion at the National Museum in Oslo The definition of “flexible lighting” is typically pretty flexible. Track-mounted fixtures that can be re-aimed, tunable CCT and “future-proof”…
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Roundtable: A New Kind of Story Telling

Media immersion, flexible controls and more make waves in museums As a former museum employee who witnessed the start of the pandemic from behind the front desk of a major…
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Project in Pictures: Sleek and Sophisticated

Specialty-food store Grace in the Kitchen takes its lighting as seriously as its cheese. Resting in the suburb of Kanata in Ontario, Canada, the warehouse-turned-shop is a sophisticated spot to find…
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Education

Stretching our Limits How much square footage do we need to tell a story? By Brienne Musselman A full cycle of educational events has now finished, since we’ve been able…
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Smart Streetlighting in Solidaridad

Mexican municipality Solidaridad will benefit from a smart streetlighting solution by Signify’s Telensa deployed across an initial 4,000 streetlights—affecting 350,000 residents—in Playa del Carman. Telensa was awarded contract by Traffic…
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Landscape Forms Supports WILD

Landscape Forms, manufacturer of LED lighting, furniture, accessories and more, has become a gold-level sponsor of volunteer-run organization Women in Lighting + Design (WILD). “Landscape Forms seeks to advance and…
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Direct Current (DC) Power Solutions for LED Lighting Systems Improve Efficiency, Energize Lighting Design, and Promote Sustainability  

Our built environment plays a crucial role in determining the quality of energy we consume. As the nation invests in grid modernization and resiliency, there is a growing emphasis on…
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Last Look: Calming Crystals

The texture of crystal provided the inspiration for Vermilion Zhou Design Group’s renovation of the Crystal Orange Hotel in Shanghai. Lighting guides guests inside, transforming through different objects and spaces…
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This Building Has a Leak

Light flows in and out of this bike barn on a school campus in Arkansas. A barn that leaks? It seems undesirable, unappealing, untenable. Unless the “leak” is lighting, as is the…
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