Optic Arts A Light Read - Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2018 For this first issue, we had a chance to catch up with Andy Powell, principal at Lighting Design Alliance. A lighting designer for more than three decades, Andy’s work has taken him all over the...
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Silver-screen glamour pervades the Hollywood Roosevelt's sister property, which also happens to be the first ground-up hotel by Gulla Jónsdóttir. A 12-story glass tower, the newcomer even boasts a suite called the Marilyn Penthouse, as in Monroe. Alongside the Hollywood moments, however, other references add...
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It seems like yesterday that David Martin presented journalists with the architectural model for a mixed-use project that would alter the city’s skyline. Martin, then design principal, revealed a tower with a hotel and offices, plus a podium at the bottom, capped by a pool...
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Over the following years, we monitored progress. From an adjacent office building, we gazed down into the gargantuan hole in the ground. We watched the foundation’s celebratory “big pour”—at 1,180 cubic yards, it was promoted as the world’s largest continuous flow of concrete. We viewed...
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Wirecutter A New York Times Company, Oct 2017 After consulting experts in lighting design and optometry, and spending 24 hours researching more than two dozen desk lamps and testing eight, we think the Eufy Lumos A4 Desk Lamp is the best LED lamp for working at a...
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HOW WILL L.A.’S NEWEST HIGH-RISE FIT INTO AN EVOLVING CITY? Standing at the base of the Wilshire Grand, architect David Martin shielded his eyes to take in the scope of Los Angeles’ newest and tallest skyscraper. Eight years ago, this shimmering glass tower began its life...
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Tunable white light is becoming a mainstay, while LED dimming capabilities are waving goodbye to flicker. We’ve all been there: You walk into a brightly lit store at night, and the intensity hurts your eyes. The culprit is cool-color-temperature lighting – light that more closely mimics...
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Beats By Dre LD+A, May 2015 Beats by Dre's sleek, colorful headphones seem to read consumer minds - and it's not just because they're attached to people's heads. The headsets merge technology and fashion, and they've come to be known just as much as a style accessory...
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You may not think of LED as ideal for warm, inviting environment, but it was the perfect choice for this chic Miami Lounge. SBE Entertainment is a global hospitality brand operation a growing portfolio of award-winning hotels, restaurants, nightlife and real estate groups, including the legendary...
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Design Challenges for Campus-wide Relighting The campus recently implemented a construction program aimed at updating its facilities. While developing the campus-wide facilities upgrade plan, Crafton’s administrators saw the need for a modern lighting system which would provide several needed benefits including: enhanced illumination and safety for...
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Chip Israel, LD+A, Oct 2012 I am now old enough to remember the old days, meaning before AutoCAD and long before Revit. In the good old days the projects were extensively coordinated. It may seem archaic by today's standards, but let's look back at the old process....
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Grand Park , Sunset Meet the new central park of L.A. In 1966, downtown's Civic Center, like much of Los Angeles, catered to the automobile, The four blocks between City Hall and the Music Center weren't so much a park as a parking structure, with twisted ramps shuffling...
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Architectural Digest HOW WILL L.A.’S NEWEST HIGH-RISE FIT INTO AN EVOLVING CITY? Architects have their own language. They speak about space in terms that may seem arcane or even cabalistic to nonpractitioners, delineating elusive concepts such as scale, proportion, and balance with words like datum and enframement....
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Anatomy of an Award, LD+A, May 2012 CHASE BANK BENSONHURST - BROOKLYN, NY "Branding" a building is a lot tougher than expressing a company's image on paper or through a website. After al, buildings are part of the existing landscape, not a tabula rasa. Such was the...
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IGNITE Lighting Design Alliance, Feb 2012 Ignite showcases a variety of Ligthing Design Alliance’s finest design concepts. LDA’s portfolio covers numerous market sectors, and each particular location tells its own unique story, integrating lighting within architecture, landscape, and interior design. As diverse as these projects seem, each...
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