October 2013 - AWA Lighting Designers

Blue Lights Keep Alive Infant With Rare Condition

It's not uncommon for newborns to go home with slightly yellowed skin - a condition called jaundice - that usually disappears in a few days as their livers mature. For Nina Lowry, though, the yellow cast to her skin and the whites of her eyes lingered months. Five times, her parents took the blue-..

NYC Is Replacing Its 250,000 Street Lights with LEDs

In recent years, we've watched with wonder as boring old yellow halogen car headlights have been replaced with futuristic, Tron-like LEDs. Now, that transition is about to take place on the city scale, as New York City prepares to replace its street lamps—all 250,000 of them—with LEDs. Mayor Bl..

LED Lighting Creeps Toward Tipping Point

Overhauls across both Las Vegas and Los Angeles offer a vivid illustration of what’s possible – especially when you consider that street lights can account for up to 40 percent of a given city’s electricity bill. .... For perspective, in 2008, the city paid $16 million for the electricity to..

Newsflash: Abhay Wadhwa Speaks at PLDC 2013 in Copenhagen

Abhay Wadhwa Speaks at PLDC 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark Abhay Wadhwa, AWA's Design Principal, has been invited to speak at Professional Lighting Design Convention (PLDC 2013) in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 31 2013. He will speak on “The Impact Of Culture And Climate On Lighting Systems." A giv..

Bushwick Inlet Park Opens

The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation cut the ribbon on its newest and greenest facility, an innovative 15,500 square foot multi-use building serving North Brooklyn’s waterfront. Designed by Kiss + Cathcart, Architects, this wedge-shaped structure seamlessly draws the adjacent park ..

NYC PARKS DEPT Cuts the Ribbon on Bushwick Inlet Park (AWA Project)

NYC Parks Commissioner Veronica M. White today joined Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, State Assembly Member Joseph R. Lentol and Council Member Stephen Levin to cut the ribbon on a brand new headquarters building with community space and an accessible green roof in Bushwick Inlet Park. T..

James Turrell Lights the Majors: The LACMA vs. The Guggenheim

Unless the artist is Picasso or Warhol, both of those deceased creators legendarily prolific, it is rare for two important American museums to feature simultaneous major exhibitions of a solo artist's work. Over the past few months, three world-class U.S. repositories of fine art have displayed the ..