14 Projects Win Lumen Awards

The Pavilion at Brookfield Place
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Kugler Ning Lighting Design
Jerry Kugler, Jackson Ning, Sunhee Lim, Jung Eun Ra
Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
Owner: Brookfield Properties
The pavilion is a grand new entrance through which 35,000 commuters and visitors travel daily into Brookfield Place (formerly known as the World Financial Center). The sweeping form of a pair of 53-foot-tall structural columns are illuminated with a series of metal halide in-ground fixtures. Shadows of the columns are cast onto the ceiling, creating the illusion of even greater volume and movement. Downlights, recessed at the perimeter of the ceiling, provide additional illumination when daylight is insufficient. Fixtures were selected with lens assemblies that minimize lamp heat transfer. Internal custom louvers were developed that optimize light output while controlling glare. Consisting of only energy efficient CMH lamps, total lighting load is 58% below ASHRAE. At night, the pavilion becomes a glowing beacon.

Carnegie Hall Façade Lighting
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Kugler Ning Lighting Design
Jerry Kugler, Amber Moriarty, Erin Gussert
Architect: Iu + Bibliowicz Architects
Owner: The City of New York and Operated by the Carnegie Hall Corporation
As a building that evolved programmatically over the last 125 years, Carnegie Hall, a National Historic and a New York City Landmark, had never been fully illuminated before. Vigilant study and documentation were required to ensure all penetrations and mounting supports occurred at reparable locations. Extensive on-site mockups were conducted to review LED distribution, output, attachment methods, and sightlines. Over 130-linear-feet of LED were temporarily installed in 13 locations on two facades. Proprietary 2700K white LED’s were selected to accentuate and blend with the building’s iron spot brick, terracotta, and painted metal. Once the final lighting was installed, pre-set dimming controls balanced the façade. So as the sun sets, the lighting comes on gradually to its pre-set level.

330 Hudson Street Lobby
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design
Francesca Bettridge, Michael Hennes, Renata Gallo
and ESI Design
Michael Schneider, Ed Purver, Angela Green, Ania Wagner
Architect: HOK
Owner: Beacon Capital Partners
The lobby of this adaptively-reused 1910 warehouse is modern and minimalist, with an LED media art installation that wraps around its perimeter. Inverse white LED coves create glowing lines and softly illuminate the limestone surfaces. Two custom cable-mounted LED pendants run the length of the lobby. In the pendants, a custom five-channel LED board (RGBWW) allows for tuning whites and creating colors that synchronize with the video panels. At the elevator lobby, concealed linear lensed fixtures highlight overlapping ceiling panels by grazing the surface. The media art’s control system senses the image color and in turn informs the color and intensity of the architectural lighting, creating a novel experience.

The September 11 Memorial Museum
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Fisher Marantz Stone
Paul Marantz, Barry Citrin, Zack Zanolli, Carla Ross Allen, Tim Huth
Architect: Davis Brody Bond (museum), SNØHETTA (pavilion)
Owner: The National September 11 Memorial Museum
Carefully designed lighting supports way-finding and provides dramatic emphasis to both artifact and architecture, memory and loss. Visitors proceed from the daylight of the plaza level pavilion through a darkened entry lobby and via a ramp with a brilliantly lighted silver wall, finally down to a monumental, underground site at bedrock. This long sequence, which is the museum’s main narrative element, enhances adaptation to museum light levels. Light reflected by two metal volumes where the Twin Towers once stood serves as the general light for the museum.

Tavern on the Green Courtyard
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Focus Lighting
Paul Gregory, Christine Hope, Brett Andersen, Hilary Manners, Valentina Doro,
Dan Nichols, Andrew Balmer
and
KB Associates
Ken Billington
Architect: Richard Lewis Architects
Owner: Jim Caiola and David Salama
Inspired by the restaurant’s famed Crystal Room the lighting design treats the courtyard as an extension of the interior, using multiple layers of light to give dimension to the outdoor space. Classic architecture meets modern influences in the custom-designed cylindrical lanterns with frosted glass gradient shades that radiate a soft, warm light. Steel blue LED accents wash the slate roof while 4200K pattern projectors mimic dappled moonlight. 500 “chandeliers” in varying sizes float above the courtyard in delicate swags. 3.5-watt 2400K LED medium screw-base lamps provide an 86% reduction in energy use and 10% additional lumen output compared to regular 25-watt lamps while adding the same feeling of incandescent sparkle within the canopy above.

McKim, Mead & White Library Restoration
New York, NY
Lighting Design: Kugler Ning Lighting Design
Jerry Kugler, Jackson Ning, Sunhee Lim, Jung Eun Ra
Architect: Peter Gisolfi Associates
Owner: Private, Members-Only Club
The lighting goals for restoring the McKim, Mead & White designed library, circa 1899, were to highlight H. Siddons Mowbray’s murals and ceiling decorations, preserve a low level of illumination faithful to the era and provide pools of light for the reading areas. The murals are illuminated by 95CRI 7.5W 10 degree MR16 LED retrofit lamps concealed within custom wall sconces and book display lights, using details from the period and existing fixtures. Linear LEDs with internal louvers replaced 1970s-era fluorescent tubes within existing stack lights. Layers of light are controlled with lighting presets to enhance visual hierarchy and balance with daylight. Magnetic transformers allow for compatibility with advancing dimmable LED lamps.

Restoration of the Nave of the Yale Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, CT
Lighting Design: Kugler Ning Lighting Design
Jerry Kugler, Jackson Ning, John Newman, Burr Rutledge, Ryoko Nakamura
Architect: Helpern Architects
Owner: Yale University
The challenge was to restore the dark and dreary Collegiate-Gothic nave to its original 1930s splendor, while making the old and new indistinguishable. New 2700K retrofit LED PAR38 and MR16 lamps concealed within balconies, restored wrought-iron chandeliers and new picture lights, illuminate the details of the elaborate ceilings. Retrofit LED A-lamps and diffusion film were added to restored sconces to soften their brightness, and reveal the natural variation of the mica shades. Hand-fabricated chandeliers, using original materials and methods, were added to the north aisle. Pendants and card-catalog fixtures at the south aisle were refurbished and relamped with LEDs to balance daylight from restored skylights. The connected lighting load is 64% below ASHRAE.