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IALD Announces 29th Annual International Lighting Design Award Winners

Craig DiLouie June 8, 2012

Fifteen award winners representing architectural lighting design projects from seven countries comprise the winners of the 29th Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards, recognized at a presentation held May 10, 2012 at the Renaissance Hotel in Las Vegas during LIGHTFAIR. Of the 15 projects recognized, two entries earned Special Citations, six earned Awards of Merit and seven earned Awards of Excellence.

The highest point score winner across all categories, in addition to receiving an Award of Excellence for their project, receives the IALD Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design. Accepting the Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design was Rudolf Teunissen of Daglicht & Vorm for Broken Light in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Broken Light was developed in response to a design competition for Rotterdam’s Katendrecht neighborhood. Rudolf Teunissen and Marinus van der Voorden of Daglicht & Vorm proposed an immersive experience using light as art to reflect the neighborhood’s fiery past.

Katendrecht, also known as the Cape, had been home to sailors, pirates, prostitutes and other unsavory individuals from its establishment in 1895 through approximately 1980, when the last harbor activities have moved on to bigger, newer harbors along the along the Nieuwe Waterweg. Since then, the area has completely transformed itself into an appealing residential district.

Broken Light partly took over the public lighting and transformed the look and feel of Atjehstraat, creating an interior, cathedral-like space. Tall columns rise up along facades, reaching for the sky. Static and tight, the beams are balanced by pools of light reflecting on the ground.

What looks like graffiti from above pedestrians experience as pools of light and dark. The light motifs are inspired by flowers and birds, and are conveyed by the light system as high-yield light effects and patterns.

Learn more about Broken Light and the award winners here.

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