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As a result of our continued collaboration with IESNYC we have the priviledge of an exclusive coverage of IES Lumen Awards 2009 Competition whose results we will publish in the following days. The first project we are publishing was designed by Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design for GSC Group in New York and it won Lumen Citation for Featured Visual Element.
Description of the project:
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The lighting for this NY financial firm sought to humanize its high-tech workplace with the look of an upscale boutique hotel.
The biggest challenge was to evenly rear-illuminate an art piece, (250 feet long covering 2,200 square feet), that wraps around the core of the two-story office and keep within the allotted watts.
“GSC was a project with a strong concept that was supported by a very collaborative team.
It’s not often that an architect either wants to or is able to alter their design to realize a very special design.
But the designers at SOM were up for it! A constructive ‘give-and-take’ on this project provided us with a rare opportunity to achieve something truly unique,” said Stephen Bernstein, founder and principal of Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design.
Lighting Design Firm: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design: Stephen D. Bernstein,
Sang Lee
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Posted by: Mitja Prelovsek
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Please can you tell us who the artist of the 250 ft long special feature art piece was? I’m also interested in brief mention of what it is made of, what it is called, and why it was there.
Thanks
Thanks for your comment, but honestly I wouldn’t know who designed it. Why don’t you contact the lighting designers (Cline Bettridge) themselves? I imagine they should know.
Thanks,
Mitja
The piece was designed by Cory Arcangel who photographed Central Park and then digitally manipulated the photo. The printed image was then laminated between layers of glass. We lit it from behind using LEDs – you can see the diagram illustration above.
The architectural concept was to treat this high-tech office like a boutique hotel. The dramatic two-story piece helped do that and was a creative way of bringing the nearby park into the office.
I just learned of this outstanding piece from May ‘10 issue of Architectural SLL Magazine and am interested to learn more about the LED light source/graphic illuminator behind the glass encased printed image. Is it LED arrays? What is the dept from the LEDs to the image? How even is the illumination from this LED light source?