When Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) was offered the commission of designing a 14,000-square-foot expansion to Toronto’s Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, opened in 1984 as Canada’s only museum devoted to ceramics, KPMB quickly tapped long-time collaborator Suzanne Powadiuk Design to complete the project’s interior lighting design.

Although the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition “Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer” represents less than one-third of the German designer’s oeuvre, the show’s 53 pieces reveal the staggering breadth of Maurer’s imagination.

Singapore may be a tiny city-state, but its rich culture incorporates multiple ethnic groups, and its complex history stretches over several centuries.

A major renovation and expansion of the National Museum of Singapore by Singapore-based W Architects presented a tabula rasa for light designers at Lightemotion and exhibition designers from GSM Group.

Project Specs National Museum of Singapore Collection Singapore Lightemotion and GSM Design Expositions Associates.

When New York–based photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto first arrived in his adopted city in the mid-1970s, he spent long nights in empty cinemas, capturing the entire running time of films in single long-exposure shots.

For more than a decade, Olafur Eliasson has been making art on a grand scale by recreating the sensory effects of the natural landscape, often inspired by his Icelandic homeland.

Lighting Projects February 2008.

MY Studio/H'weler + Yoon Architecture's Lo Rez Hi Fi gives a D.C. building a much-needed sense of place