Lighting Design

Illuminating the promise of place

We create visually dynamic lighting environments that enhance forms, colors, and textures to reveal architecture’s beauty. To appreciate the importance of light, it is important to understand how and why people use spaces. Our goal is to create prominent visual identities that improve the user experience and seek innovative approaches for lighting solutions.

We design architectural lighting solutions for projects ranging from urban streets to high-end retail, signature performing arts centers to world-class museums and beyond. In every project, light is located with care, using human perception as our guide. With light, we create safer, more appealing spaces that fulfill functional needs but go further—giving life, vitality, and spirit to our communities. While our deep commitment to sustainable solutions drives an energy-conscious approach which prioritizes daylighting and aims to preserve the night sky.

Ideas

[With Video] New city regulations are driving building retrofits

Blog Post

Debunking 7 myths and embracing a universal design mindset

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Do you want functional lighting or fantastic lighting? The difference is commissioning

Blog Post

Design Hive: Daryl Fonslow on adaptive reuse to net zero

Podcast

[With Video] 7 approaches to creating affordable housing for artists

Blog Post

Designing for gender inclusivity in industrial facilities

Blog Post

Creating memories in a supportive home away from home

Blog Post

Museum lighting case study: How a single exhibit embodies an impactful mission

Blog Post

Workplace Reboot: There's more to lighting design than meets the eye

Video

Water Power

Published Article

Holistic heroes: How lighting designers use efficiency and modeling to boost performance

Blog Post

Harmonizing the seen and unseen when designing for neurodiversity

Blog Post

What do employees really want when they return to the office?

Blog Post

New Heights in Lighting Design

Published Article

Shaky Connection?

Published Article

Design Quarterly Issue 12 | Equity and Inclusion

Publication

Office Design in a Post-Covid World

Published Article

Chicago’s Historic Post Office Houses an Expansive Office for Walgreens

Published Article

Certification is Serious (but don’t just take my word for it)

Published Article

5 steps toward efficient building performance—from LEDs to heat pumps and more

Blog Post

To Achieve the Benefits of Daylighting, Understand the Challenges

Published Article

[With Video] Beyond the monument: Honoring our heroes through contextual design

Blog Post

BPX Energy

A lighting design approach that enhances natural daylit spaces, supports a warm and comfortable residential feel for the office by highlighting natural materials and textures that connect to biophilic design elements.

McGregor Square

A new rich urban fabric which promotes and enhances pedestrian connectivity and creates a sense of place through lighting design, environmental graphics, intuitive wayfinding, art, landscape, and iconic, interactive technology features. Read More

Microsoft Building 83

Microsoft Building 83 pushes the standard for innovation and provides some of the best brains in the business with the workspace they need to not only succeed—but thrive. Our job? To enhance the experience of every person who enters the building, leveraging the power of light. Read More

Simulating daylighting in one of the darkest places on earth

A dynamic lighting visualization developed for key spaces at the National Science Foundation’s AIMS project at McMurdo Station, Antarctica features tunable lighting to simulate a natural daylight cycle.

Bringing light into play to illuminate architecture's beauty
20+
Specialty Lighting Designers
75+
Awards
5M+
Square Feet Illuminated
With projects around the globe, we are creating positive impact within the communities we serve.
Innovation, sustainability, and a human focus combine to deliver award winning lighting solutions.
Improving the quality of space and experience for all.

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Architecture We create spaces that are engaging and uplifting that contribute to our collective sense of health and well-being, and encourage the sustainable stewardship of our communities.
Interior Design As humans, we spend a significant portion of our daily lives inside. We believe our emotional and physical well-being is dramatically impacted by the places where we live, work, and play.
Visioning. Brands. Experiences. We create tangible, experiential, and memorable places. Transformative experiences that enhance real estate values and bring people back to a place again and again.
Digital Practice Technology is reshaping the way we approach design. Our digital practice team helps us push the boundaries of practice, leveraging the power of technology to deliver transformational results for our clients.
Sustainability & Building Performance We blend art and science to help clients realize the full potential of their projects in terms of life cycle cost, energy efficiency, carbon reduction, human health, and wellness.
Buildings Engineering With decades of innovation and experience under our belts we’re engineering a promising future leveraging the best in building systems, technology, energy analysis, and sustainable performance.
Landscape Architecture Whether it's an urban park, a restored wetland, an athletic complex, or a waterfront destination--through analysis, planning, and design, we create inspired landscapes that reflect context and user needs.

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