Only one building in this year’s collection is home to a design company. For lighting designer and manufacturer Hubbell, the first thought in planning a new corporate headquarters was lighting. The business became its building in a way that none of the other winning designs could. McMillan Smith & Partners Architects teamed with lighting design firm Visual Terrain and interior designer Storyline Studio to create a building that showcases the client’s products by integrating them into the architectural design.
Located in Greenville, South Carolina, the four-story, 185,000-square-foot headquarters brings together Hubbell Lighting’s 16 distinct brands into a single building with remarkable facilities. A 25,000-square-foot lighting-solutions center is the heart of the new building, containing training rooms, an amphitheater, dining facilities, and a research and development lab. The center provides an educational facility with demonstration areas devoted to the five challenges Hubbell has identified as the most important in its industry: harvesting daylight, maximizing energy efficiency, controlling light pollution, specifying solid-state lighting products, and integrating life-safety systems. The daylight harvesting workshop, for example, traces a day from sunrise to sunset to illustrate how daylight energy is captured.
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