2024 Lighting Designer Beacon Award Winners

Award of Excellence in Commercial Lighting Design

The Spiral, Fisher Marantz Stone

The Spiral, Fisher Marantz Stone

Individually planted terraces ensure that every floor of this tower opens outdoors, creating hanging gardens and cascading atria that connect the open floor plates from the ground to the summit into a single uninterrupted workspace. At night, the spiraling curtainwall and terraces glow in an ascending procession to a four-story glowing lantern that acts as a beacon to the Hudson Yards neighborhood.

Award of Excellence in Exterior Lighting Design

Signature Bridge, Horton Lees Brogden

Signature Bridge, Horton Lees Brogden

This double basket-handled arch structure comes alive at night with dynamic uplighting programmed with more than 25 celebratory scenes that include changing seasons, events, and holidays throughout the year. Along the popular pedestrian path, the overlook and illuminated glass oculus create an inviting respite for travelers.

Award of Excellence in Historic/Cultural Lighting Design

David Geffen Hall, Fisher Marantz Stone

David Geffen Hall, Fisher Marantz Stone

The design’s flexibility accommodates opera, dance, and film, ensuring artistic vitality for a new generation of composers and performers. Undulating interior walls are illuminated asymmetrically, emphasizing the highlights and shadows of the natural, warm, sculpted beechwood. Custom-designed light-pendants dance before each performance, signaling the audience to be seated.

Award of Excellence in Hospitality/Retail Lighting Design

Chasing Rabbits, Focus Lighting

Chasing Rabbits, Focus Lighting

The lighting design is a celebration of playfulness with relaxed sophistication. Guests of this clubhouse travel on a fantastic journey between rooms, each with its own lighting signature. Halo-lit floating mirrors at the speakeasy create a bold yet delicate focal point. The library exudes elegance with warm tones and built-in millwork lighting, juxtaposed with neon art. In the arcade, color and contrast abound.

Award of Excellence for a New York Project

Penn Station 33rd Street Entrance, Horton Lees Brogden

Penn Station 33rd Street Entrance, Horton Lees Brogden

The renovation of this major rail hub includes a lighting design that combines modern general and accent lighting with a custom dynamic ceiling that reveals content reflective of the season and significant holidays. The lighting design guides travelers to and from their trains in a revitalized, luminous environment that blends lightly applied color and movement with lighting statements reflective of the modern language of the architecture.

Award of Excellence for a New York Project

Rockefeller Center Concourse, Lighting Workshop

Rockefeller Center Concourse, Lighting Workshop

The renovations transformed the subterranean passageways evoking the original Art Deco design with radiused curved cove details, an array of fluted materials, and custom light fixtures. The lighting supplements rediscovered skylights, memorializes original columns entombed behind illuminated translucent glass, and creates a sense of natural flow, with an abundance of ambient lighting.

Award of Excellence in Residential Lighting Design

Meadow Pavilion, Loop Lighting

Meadow Pavilion, Loop Lighting

Folded into a gently sloping landscape of a farm estate, the pavilion acts as a glowing lantern. Constructed as a guest house for artists-in-residence, the lighting within the space balances soft internal luminescence with focal accents to highlight art and sculpture within. Inside, decorative fixtures gently float over the dining table. Outside, the landscape lighting frames the visual perspective to create a curated arrival experience.