Holiday Lights Across America: 2023-2024 Festivals of Light
“Holiday lights” is a generic term that refers to the various electrical lighting extravaganzas everyone enjoys. Every year’s final weeks become an occasion to showcase nighttime lights. Seeing and beholding these country and city lights doesn’t always mean you have to be there. Certain lighting festival websites feature still and motion pictures—
Holiday Lights Across America: Commercial Light Displays 2022
This is the second of two lighting-themed articles about indulging in the magic of colorful, twinkling lights at Christmastime. As a generic term, holiday lights refers to various electrical lighting extravaganzas. But light displays during a year’s final weeks originate with celebrating Christmas with commercial displays. Festive lighting after Thanksgiv
Lights Across America: Chicago
This is the first of a series of field reports on lighting, design and architecture across the United States of America. We start in America’s great architecture and design center, Chicago, Illinois. The Windy City has much to offer in lighting. In fact, its legendary art institute’s a fabulous place to start in any season. […]
Growing Green: How Amazon has Become Seattle’s Green Giant
After outgrowing its headquarters several years ago, Amazon invested in its hometown — building some 40 buildings in downtown Seattle while keeping a focus sustainability. Six of the buildings on Amazon’s Seattle campus have been awarded with the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Gold certification for sustainable design and construction methods, whi
The Best Places to See LED Light Art Installations in the World
Previously, we explored the The United States for the best examples of LED architectural lighting used to enhance design features in buildings and art installations. We also learned that architectural lighting gives designers freedom to build creative but functional spaces. Here are the top 7 international uses of architectural lighting that we found nota
The Best Places to See Architectural LED Lighting in the USA
Often the purpose of architectural lighting is to highlight architectural design features in a space. But in some cases, the architectural lighting itself is what steals the show. From airports to the great outdoors, sometimes the best architectural LED lighting installations can be found in the most unlikely of places. 1. Sky’s the Limit by […]
Staten Island Library Meets Linear Architectural Lighting
The new 12,000-square-foot addition to the Stapleton Library on Staten Island is a luminous rectangular box that flowed easily from the previous structure. Public libraries have always played a civic role, serving both as communal gathering spaces and as vehicles for providing free access to information for all. That dual service, and the responsibility tha