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Lighting Design Awards 2004
A dozen outstanding winners were honoured at the Lighting Design Awards at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London on 25th March. Some of the UK's best known lighting practices were recognised for their work on a range of projects which stretched from the fantastic public spaces of Finsbury Avenue Square at Liverpool Street to the beautiful St Bartholemew's restoration in Leeds.
Four manufacturers were also rewarded for their innovation and ingenuity in the product categories, with some truly outstanding engineering competing for the top prizes.
Projects
Finsbury Avenue Square won the exterior category for what the judges called quite simply “one of the outstanding schemes of recent years”, and, “a technically demanding creation”. The large commercial Broadgate Estate has been relit as part of a strategy to redefine the space after dark in a superb job by Maurice Brill.
St Bartholemews Parish Church in Leeds is primarily a pendant-based system, which scheme works with a range of discrete lighting to create “a very balanced scheme for a challenging space" said the judges of this heritage category winner by Lighting Design & Consultancy.
The Gate, Newcastle, a state-of-the-art city centre leisure destination that includes restaurants, bars and a 12-screen cinema won the leisure category with a theatrical approach by BDP Lighting.
Another winner for BDP was Limerick Council Offices in Ireland. Lighting has been considered as an essential building 'material' in this project, entered by architect Bucholz McEvoy in the workplace category.
The King’s Library, British Museum has been renovated using the original book presses as display cabinets and the lighting brief required an architectural approach. "A sensitive job beautifully executed" by Light & Design Associates won the public buildings category.
At the other end of the scale, 29 Camden Mews, London evolved over a period of three years as the strategy and vision for the property changed. The lighting is probably the strongest interior feature of the space and won the small projects category for Ben Pearce-Higgins.
Hull City Council's The Boulevard regeneration, with improved street lighting, won the transport category for "A very thoughtful solution for a challenging street-lighting situation."
Innovations
With C-Splash 2 Color Kinetics expanded the creative possibilities for water-based lighting design and implementation that “makes lighting water simple” reckoned the judging panel. It scooped the exterior luminaires category.
The interior luminaires category was won by Minicubeus from ACDC Lighting Systems, a minimalist, brushed or polished aluminium cube based around the intense 1W Luxeon LED. The judges called it a “pioneering range that makes the most of LED's qualities and addresses thermal management issues”.
For lamps and gear Britespot ES50 35W from Sylvania Lighting International was declared “the outstanding development of the year” by the judges. The Britespot ES50 combines high output, excellent light quality and superb energy efficiency in a highly distinctive package.
Finally, in the contribution to sustainabilty category Grafik Integrale from Lutron - a system designed for use in residential and small commercial applications, offering control for virtually all types of modern load sources - won top spot.
The Lighting Design Awards 2004 are organised by Emap and the Institution of Lighting Engineers and are supported by the Lighting Industry Federation. Other supporting associations include the International Association of Lighting Designers and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
In picture: Artistic Licence implemented the exterior category award-winning scheme from Maurice Brill Lighting Design.
6th April 2004
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