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Jul 1, 2024 | 
arch-products.com | Vilma Barr
How did the city of Manchester communicate its desire for cleaner energy? They created a pristine white Tower of Light and a Wall of Energy with an inspired team of designers and technical artists led by London-based architectural firm Tonkin Liu. In function, the tower is a 131-ft-tall chimney for the power station that provides more sustainable heat and power to several of the city’s landmarks—town hall, central library, convention center, and others.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
arch-products.com | Vilma Barr |Jana Madsen
There are several notable features of a Spanish-Pueblo Revival style building: a flat roof, stepped massing, rounded corners, stucco, earth-colored finish, walled courtyards, and decoratively carved corbels. The Santa Fe County Courthouse, designed and constructed by John Gaw Meem in 1939, had it all, originally. Then, in the 1970s, the courtyard was in-filled to create additional office space.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
lightspeconline.com | Vilma Barr
With the convenience and unparalleled product selection available to online shoppers, companies are rethinking their approach to retail, seeking ways they can entice customers to visit their physical stores. This repurposing is causing a shift in retail store design, and the way lighting is used in these spaces is changing.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
lightspeconline.com | Vilma Barr
Retail clients are putting high priority on the "Instagrammable Moment." This phenomenon connects consumers' digital and physical worlds and enables retailers a greater reach than their carefully honed marketing plans could imagine. According to a VidMob study, The State of Social Video, "25% of Gen Z and millennials actively seek videos of products and services they may buy."But creating an Instagram-worthy moment is no small task.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
architecturalssl.com | Vilma Barr
Randy Burkett is a charter member of the group of North American lighting design innovators who initiated their careers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Over 33 years, he had grown Randy Burkett Lighting Design into a major specialty lighting consulting practice based in St. Louis.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
architecturalssl.com | Vilma Barr
The $40-million makeover of an 11-story, 254-room former Marriott into the W Toronto has created a destination of high-end dining and event spaces that attract both visitors and local patrons. The hotel, located in the Toronto’s Yorkville section, reflects the multicultural city’s diversity, style, and architectural heritage. Montreal-based Sid Lee Architecture directed the design program for the public spaces and guest rooms.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
architecturalssl.com | Vilma Barr
In West Berlin, the historic Charlottenburg women’s prison at Kantstraße 79 has been transformed by Berlin firm Grüntuch Ernst Architekten into the boutique hotel Wilmina. The adaptive reuse connected the circa-1896 prison with an adjoining courthouse and reconfigured interior spaces and former cells. The elegant 44-room destination and restaurant is now a lively urban hot spot for locals and travelers.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
architecturalssl.com | Vilma Barr
Built in 1902 and designated as a historic landmark in 1987, the 181-room Algonquin Hotel is one of the oldest operating hotels in New York. In 2022, Stonehill Taylor oversaw the refresh of the Beaux-Arts style interior design and architecture of the ground floor public spaces, including the Blue Bar and the Oak Room, introducing contemporary lighting and furnishings within the original classical environment. The hotel was renowned for its regular gatherings of artists.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
architecturalssl.com | Vilma Barr
The use of lighting in schools is changing and for good reason. “Technology and life-style changes of younger generations have changed the way that learning environments have to function, opening up new design opportunities,” said Alexandra Barker, FAIA, principal of Barker Associates Architecture Office (BAAO), and assistant chairperson of the graduate architecture and urban design program at Pratt Institute.
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May 16, 2023 | 
architecturalssl.com | Vilma Barr
In hospitality settings, lighting can transform a guest’s experience. Designers can paint light throughout the space using an array of product types on hand, including chandeliers, pendants, wall sconces, table and floor lamps, wall art, screens, cove lights, and sculptural lights. Lighting can help achieve design objectives while imparting a competitive edge to a venue.
