January 2014 - AWA Lighting Designers

LRC Announces New Light and Health Institute

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will hold a two-day, hands-on seminar May 6-7, 2014, to teach the many ways in which light affects, and can be used to improve, health and wellbeing. Light of the appropriate quantity, spectrum, timing, duration, and distribution..

Cyber Hub [AWA Project] featured by Architizer

The site is long and linear with multiple entrances and viewing points. In our analyses, it was critical to create definite visual nodes for visitor orientation and collection, that would then be connected by a lighting tapestry, creating a visually clean and crisp environment at night. The exciteme..

AWA Project Update – Bushwick Inlet Park

PROJECT TEAM: Client: NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Architect: Kiss + Cathcart Architects Lighting Consultant: AWA Lighting Designers Local Team: Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects, Robert Silman Associates, Langan Engineering Photographer: Paul Warchol PROJECT BRIEF: Given the..

Bushwick Inlet Park is 1 of 10 Baller Projects Coming Out of Brooklyn

Using “Brooklyn” as an euphemism of cool has become a bit of a trope, almost as cloying as the 00s’ invention of “fetch” or “B-A-N-A-N-A-S.” From Beyoncé to bespoke bow tie artisans, everyone’s trying to claim a piece of Brand Brooklyn. The hype makes it easy to miss that the borou..

Cyber Hub (AWA project) turns itself into leisure hotspot

Good architecture tends to be both a product of and a monument to the society as it exists in a given frame of time. The buildings of Cyber City, intricate steel and glass constructions, are exceptions to this rule. They seem to exist outside time, representing a distant future, and have little to d..

LightRails: A Neglected Railroad Underpass Illuminated by Artist Bill FitzGibbons

Built in 1931, this Art Deco railroad underpass in Birmingham, Alabama is a vital gateway between the heart of downtown and a new urban space called Railroad Park. In recent years the dark tunnel had deteriorated into an unwelcoming and potentially dangerous area, so the city hired sculptor and publ..

James Turrell Projects The Color Inside at UT Austin’s Roof

‘The color inside’ is the eighty-fourth skyspace created by james turrell, a series which sees the renowned american artist using light and space as the mediums in experiential and continuously changing artworks. The new installation situated on the roof of the student activity center at the uni..

Blue Light Phototherapy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, According To New Studies

New Rochelle, NY, December16, 2013--Blue light has proven to have powerful bacteria-killing ability in the laboratory. The potent antibacterial effects of irradiation using light in the blue spectra have now also been demonstrated in human and animal tissues. A series of groundbreaking articles that..