Project Description

The 50th Annual IES Illumination Awards

The 2023 IES Illumination Awards will be presented on August 3, 2023 during the kick-off of the 2023 Annual Conference.

2023 ILLUMINATION AWARDS –  MERIT AWARD RECIPIENTS

  • BOSTON

    BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY
    Designer: Borealis Lighting Studio

    BOSTON CHILDREN’S BROOKLINE
    Designer: Lam Partners

    CHARLOTTE & WILLIAM BLOOMBERG MEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    Designer: HLB Lighting Designer

    CONFIDENTIAL CORPORTATE CLIENT FIT-OUT
    Designer: Sladen Feinstein Integrated Lighting

    ENTERTAINMENT NATION, SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY
    Designer: Available Light

    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, BUILDING 201
    Designer: CannonDesign

    KENTUCKY DISTILLERY EXPERIENCE
    Designer: Hartranft Lighting Design

    MICROSOFT RESTON
    Designer: HLB Lighting Designer

    SQUARE INC. ST. LOUIS HEADQUARTERS
    Designer: CannonDesign

    THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE
    Designer: Sladen Feinstein Integrated Lighting

    VERIZON AT THE HUB ON CAUSEWAY
    (Outdoor Lighting Design and Lighting Control Innovation)
    Designer: HLB Lighting Design

    WACHENHEIM SCIENCE CENTER
    Designer: Available Light

  • CALGARY

    RECONCILIATION BRIDGE
    Designer: lightSPACE at SMP Engineering

  • CHICAGO

  • DAR CONSTITUTION HALL RENOVATION, PHASE 3
    Designer: Schuler Shook
  • LANDSCAPE IN LIGHT: THE TIFFANY WINDOW AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    Designer: Schuler Shook
  • VUORI – SOHO
    Designer: RL Studio

  • CLEVELAND

  • THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
    Designer: Osborn

  • COLUMBUS

  • HOCKING HILLS LODGE
    Designer: Zinkon Creative Studio

  • DALLAS

  • DFW HIGH C GATES
    Designer: Corgan
  • DOLESE BROS. CO. EXTERIOR
    Designer: LuM Lighting Design
  • FREEDOM PLACE EXTERIOR @ OLD PARKLAND
    Designer: studio e lighting
  • OLD PARKLAND CAMPANILE
    Designer: studio e lighting
  • “THE GEM” AT DOLESE BROS. CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
    Designer: LuM Lighting Design

  • DENVER

  • BEZEL BAR
    Designers: HLB Lighting Design
  • CATBIRD HOTEL
    Designer: LS Group
  • CLIMATE PLEDGE ARENA
    Designers: Illume
  • MISSOULA PUBLIC LIBRARY INTERIOR
    Designers: Mazzetti Lighting Design
  • PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CONCOURSE E EXPANSION
    Designer: HLB Lighting Design

  • DETROIT

  • CHOCTAW CULTURAL CENTER
    Designer: Illuminating Concepts
  • FETZER INSTITUTE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING RENOVATION
    Designer: SmithGroup
  • GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FILM
    Designer: SmithGroup
  • PERRIGO NORTH AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS
    Designer: SmithGroup
  • SHAW LANE POWER PLANT RENOVATION
    Designer: Integrated Design Solutions

  • DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

  • 7500 OLD GEORGETOWN ROAD
    Designer: MCLA
  • 80 M STREET MASS TIMBER DC
    Designer: CMK
  • DCPS BENJAMIN BANNEKER HIGH SCHOOL
    Designer: CMTA
  • JOHN EATON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    Designer: CGS Architects

  • GRAND RAPIDS

  • SAINT SEBASTIAN BELL TOWER
    Designer: Progressive AE

  • INTERNATIONAL

  • 751D • PARK
    Designer: Toryo International Lighting Design Center
  • AL MANA HQ, DOHA
    Designer: Guangzhou Goden Lighting Design Co., Ltd
  • CANAL GRAND THEATRE OF YANGZHOU CHINA
    Designer: Tongi Architectural Design Group
  • CAPITASPRING
    Designer: Nipek Pte Ltd
  • CHAPEL OF SOUND
    Designer: Beijing United Artists Lighting Design Corp. Ltd.
  • DUNEDIN CITY LED STREETLIGHT REPLACEMENT
    Designer: LDP
  • FANGXIA AND YUNSHU
    Designer: ATL International Lighting Design Inc.
  • FUTURE PLAYGROUND – YOUTH THEATRE KASSEL
    Designer: Lichtwerke GmbH
  • GUANGMING DONGTAN YUAN
    Designer: Tongji Architectural Design Group
  • GUANGZHOU HAIXIN BRIDGE LIGHTING DESIGN
    Designer: Beijing Tsinghua Holdings Habitat Development Lighting Institute Co., Ltd.
  • HALLGRIMSKÍRKJA
    (Interior and Outdoor Lighting Design)
    Designer: Liska ehf
  • HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE, ADELAIDE
    Designer: Aurecon
  • HUWEI IRON BRIDGE
    Designer: CosmoC Lighting, Ltd.
  • ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL LIBRARY
    Designer: Lighting Planners Associates
  • INTERIOR LIGHTING AND DAYLIGHTING FOR BY ART MATTERS AT OŌELI
    Designer: Arup
  • KAZAN
    Designer: Electrolight
  • KAWASAKI DELTA
    Designer: Susumu Matsushita Architecture & Lighting Design Labo.
  • LANGJIU DIZHIGE
    Designer: Brandston Partnership Inc.
  • LAYERING OF LANTERN NARRATIVE
    Designer: Light Directions
  • LIGHTING DESIGN OF CHANGZHOU QINGGUO LANE HISTORIC AND CULTURAL DISTRICT
    Designer: Beijing Tsinghua Holdings Habitat Development Lighting Institute Co., Ltd.
  • LIGHTING DESIGN OF MEMORIAL HALL OF WANG YANGMING
    Designer: Lighting Design Institute of UAD
  • LINGANG TOP SCIENTISTS FORUM, SHANGHAI
    Designer: LEOX Design Partnership
  • MAHÁ CLUB BEIJING
    Designer: Light Poetic
  • MEDTRONICS OFFICE SINGAPORE
    Designer: Light Collab
  • MONOLOGUE ART MUSEUM
    Designer: Gradient Lighting Design
  • MUSE HOUSE
    Designer: ASlight

  • NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PUBLICATIONS AND CULTURE, HANGZHOU
    Designer: Zhejiang Architectural Design and Research Institute, FangFang Studio
  • NIANHUACANG
    Designer: ATL International Lighting Design Inc.
  • NANJING MIXC
  • Designer: Tungsten Studio Lighting Design
  • NON-REGISTERED VIP RECEPTION CENTER FOR THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
  • Designer: Puri Lighting Design

  • NOVARTIS PAVILLON – ZERO-ENERGY MEDIA FAÇADE
    Designer: iart – Stuido for Media Architectures

    OCBC WISMA ATRIA FLAGSHIP, SIGNAPORE
    Designer: Glint Lighting Design

    OSLO NATIONAL MUSEUM – THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION
    Designer: Studio Massimo Iarussi Lighting Design

    POLISH ARMY SOLDIERS’ CEMETERY AT WESTERPLATTE
    Designer: QLAB Laboratory of Light

    ROMAN THEATRE
    Designer: Skira

    RUI ZHOU ANCIENT GOVERNMENT OFFICE
    Designers: Aurora Lighting Enterprise (Z Design and Planning Lighting Co. Ltd.)

    SETSU NISEKO
    Designer: Nipek Pte Ltd

    SKP CHENGDU, CHINA
    Designer: Speirs + Major LLP

    SHINGU CITY CULTURE CENTER “TANKAKU HALL”
    Designer: Lumimedialab Inc.

    SHOWIN ACADEMY KOYUKAN
    Designer: Lighting M Inc.

    SHOWROOM OF SPANISH TECHSIZE FLAGSHIP STORE
    Designer: Beijing Essence Lighting Design Co., Ltd

    SINGTEL WATERFRONT THEATRE
    Designer: Lighting Planners Associates

    STARBUCKS RESERVE® WUHAN HEARTLAND 66 STORE
    Designer: WEGO Lighting Design

    TELECOMMUNICATIONS MUSEUMS
    Designer: Limari Lighting Design

    TERRA EMILY RESTAURANT
    Designer: Expolight

    THE TOWERS OF THE EVANGELISTS MARK AND LUKE OF THE BASILICA DE SAGRADA FAM ÍLIA, BARCELONA
    Designer: Licht Kunst Licht AG

    THE MIRO STORE OF DUOYUN BOOKSTORE
    Designer: Gradient Lighting Design

    THE SHIPPING MUSEUM
    Designer: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University and One Lighting Associates, Beijing

    THE TAIKANG SANYA, A TRIBUTE PORTFOLIO RESORT
    Designer: J+B Studios Architectural Lighting

    TOKYO TORCH TOKIWABASHI TOWER
    Designer: Mitsubishi Jisho Design

    VIRGIN ENDINBURGH
    Designer: Elektra Lighting Ltd

    WUXI HEZI SPA CLUB
    Designer: WEGO Lighting Design

    XIONG’ AN CCCC FUTURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CITY SERVICE CENTER – SOURCE OF THE FUTURE
    Designer: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

    YADA THEATRE
    Designer: Tongji Architectural Design Group Co., Ltd

    YAN JI LI
    Designer: ATL International Lighting Design Inc.

    YOKOHAMA MINATO MIRAI HALL
    Designer: Pnasonic Coporation

    ZHAOQING SHERATON LIGHTING DESIGN
    Designer: Future Lighting Design (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd

  • KANSAS CITY

  • COLUMBUS CREW — LOWER.COM FIELD
    Designer: Henderson Engineers
  • FRANK O’MARA TRACK & FIELD HIGH PERFORMANCE CENTER
    Designer: Henderson Engineers
  • GEODIS PARK
    Designer: ME Engineers
  • RESCH EXPO CENTER
    Designer: Henderson Engineers

  • LOS ANGELES

  • ALTERYX
    Designer: Wolcott Architecture (Brilliant Lighting Studio)
  • AMA SUSHI
    Designer: eSquared Lighting Design
  • AREA 15
    Designer: John Levy Lighting Productions, Inc.
  • CANTINA MONARCA
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance
  • CONFIDENTIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
    Designer: Oculus Light Studio
  • CONFIDENDTIAL TECH COMPANY
    Designer: Sean O’Connor Lighting
  • CULTURE KINGS
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance
  • CULVER POINTE
    Designer: eSquared Lighting Design
  • JIO WORLD CENTRE
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance
  • JIO WORLD DRIVE MALL & BAY CLUB
    Designer: Ganti & Associates Inc.
  • JOHNNIE WALKER PRINCES STREET
    (Interior Lighting Design and Lighting Control Innovation)
    Designer: BRC Imagination Arts
  • LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY DROLLINGER STAGE
    Designer: HLB Lighting Design
  • LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FILM AND TELEVISION
    Designer: HLB Lighting Design
  • NIKU X LA
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance
  • PASARROYO
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance

  • PORTA VIA PALM DESERT
    Designer: Pratt Lighting Design

    STEINMETZ HALL, DR. PHILLIPS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    Designer: Ann Kale Associates

    ST. REGIS HOTEL LOBBY LOUNGE
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance

    TALISKER DISTILLERY
    Designer: BRC Imagination Arts

    TECHSTYLE
    Designer: eSqaured Lighting Design

    THE VAULT CASINO AT YAAMAVA
    Designer: Lighting Design Alliance

    TWITCH LAX
    Designer: Banks Landl Lighting Design

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE — STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
    Designer: P2S Inc.

  • MEXICO

  • AMERICAN AIRLINES ADMIRALS CLUB DCA
    Designer: Lux Populi
  • PARIS THEATER RESTAURANT
    Designer: Lux Populi

  • MIAMI

  • ASURION GULCH HUB
    (Energy and Environmental Design and Interior Lighting Design)
    Designer: HLB Lighting Design

  • MILWAUKEE

  • LET’S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN
    Designer: Ring & DuChateau, LLP

  • MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL

  • HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER
    Designer: Leo A Daly
  • JAMS — JOHN ADAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    Designer: HGA
  • PLYMOUTH CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER
    Designer: Nina Italiano (HGA)
  • UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA – MASONIC INSTITUTE FOR THE DEVELOPING BRAIN
    Designer: HGA

  • MONTREAL

    QUEBEC’S PARLIAMENT BUILDING
    Designers: Tetra Tech QI Inc and GS Urbalum/Cima+21

  • NEW YORK CITY

    1155 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS – ENTRANCE AND POPS PLAZA
    Designer: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design

    200 PARK AVENUE
    Designer: Kugler Ning Lighting Design

    277 PARK AVE
    Designer: Renfro Design Group, Inc.

    550 MADISON AVENUE: GARDEN, CROWN, FAÇADE
    Designer: Arup

    550 MADISON AVENUE LOBBY
    Designer: KGM Architectural Lighting

    AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY – NORTHWEST COAST HALL
    Designer: Renfro Design Group, Inc.

    BOB DYLAN CENTER
    Designer: Tillotson Design Associates

    CIVILIAN HOTEL
    Designer: Focus Lighting

    CHASING RABBITS
    Designer: Christine Hope (Focus Lighting)

    CHRIST CHURCH UNITED METHODIST
    Designer: Tillotson Design Associates

    CUMMINS CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS RENOVATION
    Designer: Arup

    DUBAI EXPO – AL WASL PLAZA
    Designer: Office for Visual Interaction

    EAST SIDE ACCESS / GRAND CENTRAL MADISON
    Designer: Domingo Gonzalez Associates

    FRICK MADISON
    Designer: Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design

    GENE LEAHY MALL
    Designer: Joshua Spitzig (Atelier Ten)

    MANITOGA / THE RUSSEL WRIGHT DESIGN CENTER
    Designer: Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design

    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
    Designer: Renfro Design Group, Inc.

    ONE VANDERBILT
    Designer: Tillotson Design Associates

    SUMMIT ONE VANDERBILT
    Designer: Arup

    ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE CHURCH NYC
    Designer: The Lighting Design Group

    ST. REGIS CAIRO / THE NILE CONICHE
    Designer: Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc.

    THE SCHWARZMAN CENTER RENOVATION AT YALE UNIVERSITY
    Designer: L’Observatoire International

    TIN BUILDING
    Designer: L’Observatoire International

    WILLIS TOWER REPOSITIONING
    Designer: Kugler Ning Lighting Design

    WINTER PARK LIBRARY
    Designer: Tillotson Design Associates

  • OMAHA

    SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE – HEALTH SCIENCES
    Designer: Morrissey Engineering

    THE COHEN BUILDING
    Designer: Engineering Technologies, Inc

    THE FARNAM
    Designer: Alvine Engineering

    UNDISCLOSED HIGHRISE, NASHVILLE, TN
    Designer: Alvine Engineering

  • ORANGE COUNTY

  • COLLEGE OF THE DESERT CENTRAL CAMPUS REDEVELOPMENT
    Designer: WSP (Studio K1)
  • TIDE ACADEMY
    (Interior and Outdoor Lighting Design)
    Designer: LPA Inc.
  • WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE
    Designer: WSP (Studio K1)

  • OTTAWA


  • CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JAMES
    Designer: Gabriel Mackinnon

  • PHILADELPHIA

    AB HEADQUARTERS
    Designer: BEAM, Ltd.

    PENN STATE HEALTH CHILDREN’S LANCASTER PEDIATRIC CENTER
    Designer: Barton Associates, Inc.

    SAINT MARK’S CHURCH SANCTUARY
    Designer: BEAM, Ltd.

    MAZUR HALL
    Designer: BEAM, Ltd.

    THE MIDDLEMAN FAMILY PAVILION AT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA IN KING OF PRUSSIA
    Designer: The Lighting Practice

    THE PAVILION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA – CLINICAL SPACES
    Designer: HDR

    THE PAVILION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA – PUBLIC SPACES
    Designer: HDR

  • PHOENIX

    RENATA’S HEARTH
    Designer: Creative Designs in Lighting

    THE ARIZONA BILTMORE RESORT
    Designer: Creative Designs in Lighting

  • PORTLAND, OREGON

    PAE LIVING BUILDING
    Designer: Luma Lighting Design

    THE PATRICIA RESER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    Designer: Luma Lighting Design

  • ROCHESTER

  • GREECE CHILDREN’S LIBRARY
    Designer: Passero Associates

  • SAN FRANCISCO

    AUTODESK GALLERY
    Designer: Banks Landl Lighting Design

    BUENA VISTA PRIVATE RESIDENCE
    Designer: Electrolight

    FORERUNNER VENTURES
    Designer: PritchardPeck Lighting

    MARIN ACADEMY AQUATIC CENTER
    Designer: Auerbach Glasow

    NVIDIA VOYAGER INTERIOR
    Designer: HLB Lighting Design SC WORKPLACE

    OFFICE TI FOR GLOBAL TECH CLIENT
    Designer: WSP USA

    SC WORKPLACE
    Designer: Loisos + Ubbelohde

    THE MATHESON
    Designer: Electrolight

  • ST.LOUIS

  • KANAWHA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    Designer: Reed Burkett (Envision Lighting Design, LLC)
  • ST. LOUIS CITY HALL
  • Designer: Reed Burkett (Envision Lighting Design, LLC)

  • TAMPA

    STAR WARS: GALACTIC STARCRUISER
    Designer: Walt Disney Imagineering

  • TORONTO

    CAA ED MIRVISH THEATRE, HARRY POTTER TRANSFORMATION
    Designer: Consullux Lighting Consultant

    LITTLE CANADA — OUR HOME IN MINIATURE LAND
    Designer: Mulvaney & Banani International Inc.

    POLAR ASSET MANAGEMENT PARTNERS INC.
    Designer: Smith + Andersen

  • VANCOUVER

    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY HARBOUR FRONT THEATRE RENOVATION
    Designer: Introba Light Studio

    SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY APPLIED SCIENCE BUILDING EXPANSION AND RENOVATIONS
    Designer: Michael Graham (WSP CANADA)

    THE THREE WATCHMEN
    Designer: Introba Light Studio

  • WITCHITA

  • MAIZE PERFORMING ARTS & AQUATICS CENTER
    Designer: Professional Engineering Consultants

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