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Water Power
Colorado’s oldest and largest utility embodies environmental stewardship via its revamped operations center. By Samantha Schwirck
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Editor’s Note: Our Bill of Rights
What the authors are really describing is light as a right, not a privilege. By Paul Tarricone
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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…
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Education: Say It More Simply
Do we alienate people with our jargon-filled language? By Brienne Musselman
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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
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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