Touted as singapore’s first Urban entertainment complex, the recently completed iluma project by WOHA takes a radically different approach to the kind of lighting found elsewhere in the Asian city-state, using a media facade designed to mesh artistic creativity and commercial interests in a developing arts and heritage district.

Project Specs iluma Singapore WOHA << Return to article the People Architect: WOHA 29 HongKong Street Singapore 059668 T: 65-6423-4555 F: 65-6423-4666 Wong Mun Summ (registered architect) Richard Hassell (registered architect) Chan Ee Mun (registered architect) Dhamaraj Subramaniam Ang Chow Hwee Lim Yin Chao Lim Yee Sze (registered architect) Alen Low Architect of record: WOHA Interior designer WOHA Consultant(s) Landscape: ICN Design International Lighting: Lighting Planners Associates Inc. Acoustical: Acviron Acoustics Consultants Pte Ltd Other: Civil and Structural: LBW Consultants Mechanical & Electrical: Lincolne Scott Ng Pte. Ltd. Media Façade Design: Realities United Gmbh Façade Consultant: Arup Façade Engineering Fire

When Asymptote principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture won a 2007 competition to design a 500-room luxury hotel and marina on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island, northeast of the mainland, the directive was firm: to create an iconic complex around a Formula 1 racecourse and complete it in time to host the country’s inaugural Grand Prix on November 1, 2009.

Project Specs The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Asymptote Architecture << Return to article the People Architect: Asymptote Architecture 11-45 46th Ave. LIC, NY 11101 P: 212.343.7333 F: 718.937.3320 Lead Architects/principals: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture Project directors: Mick McConnell, Andrew DrummondProject Managers: Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, Constantin, Doehler, Matthew Utley Architect of record: Dewan Architects & Engineers, Abu Dhabi Tilke & Partners W.L.L., Dubai Grid-Shell Engineer(s): Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart Waagner-Biro, Vienna Consultant(s) Landscape: Cracknell, Dubai Lighting: Arup Lighting, New York—Brian Stacy, Richard Fisher, designers Photographer Bjorn Moerman   the Products Lighting Exterior(grid-shell): Cooper Lighting and Safety (luminaires)

Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Project Specs Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Milwaukee, Wisconsin Donald Grieb << Return to article the People Owner: Milwaukee County Parks Architect: Original Architect: Donald Grieb (retired) Lobby Architects * Lobby renovations not included in the overall 550,000 budget; Lobby renovation began after CLD-E won design award.  Quorum Architects, Inc – Allyson Nemec, AIA 414-265-9265 Zimmerman Design Group - Michael Kramer 414.918.1478 Consultant(s) Lighting: Creative Lighting Design and Engineering, LLC. (CLD-E) Marty Peck, Principal, LC, IALD, IESNA Teresa Haas, project manager Garrett Maas, designer General contractor: ELECTRICAL: Good Electric, Dave Drumel, PE

Project Specs Armani/5th Avenue New York, USA Studio Fuksas Architects << Return to article the People Architect Studio Fuksas Architects Piazza del Monte de Pieta, 30 00186 Roma T: +39 06 6880 7871 F: +39 06 6880 7872 Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Interior designer: Studio Fuksas Engineer(s): Rosini Engineers Consultant(s) Lighting: Speirs and Major Associates General contractor: Americon Photographer: Ramon Prat, Alan Toft Renderer(s): SaMA CAD system, project management, or other software used: Autocad, Photoshop, Excel   the Products

Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect Total Lighting Solutions lights the way for Vancouver's new transit system Soft, tranquil, diffuse — not words you would expect to describe the light in a subway. Vancouver’s new Canada Line, an extension of the city’s rapid-rail transit, opened in August 2009, ahead of schedule for the 2010 Olympics, and is already carrying more than 100,000 passengers a day — well above anticipated ridership. Worth about 10

Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Project Specs Canada Line British Columbia, Canada Busby Perkins + Will, Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden (HBBH), Hywel Jones Architect, Kasian Architecture, Stantec, VIA Architecture, and Walter Francl Architect << Return to article the People Owner: Public Private Partnership Project. Funded by the Government of Canada, Province of British Columbia, Vancouver Airport Authority, the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority (Translink – formerly named Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority) and City of Vancouver. Participating Agency:  City of Richmond “Design, Build, partially Finance, Operate and Maintain” project. – The Concessionaire for the Project is

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Lighting: Armani/5th Avenue Canada Line Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory Milwaukee, Wisconsin Donald Grieb CLD-E illuminates a Milwaukee landmark Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory, a complex of three connected structures commonly and affectionately known as “the Domes,” needed a significant revitalization. Photo courtesy CLD-E/Marty peck Designed in the late 1950s by local architect Donald Grieb and dedicated at its opening in the mid-1960s by Lady Bird Johnson, then first lady, the conservatory comprises three 15,000-square-foot conoidal domes composed of a precast concrete substructure and aluminum-framed glass. One hundred and forty feet in diameter at the base and 85 feet high, each