HGA has won five Merit Awards for lighting design excellence in the 48th annual IES Illumination Awards program, sponsored by the national Illuminating Engineering Society.
The winners include:
Countryside Community Church
The congregation of Countryside Community Church in Omaha, Nebraska, envisioned an intimate, welcoming worship environment for fellowship, child and adult education, community daycare, music performance, and outreach. The lighting design upholds the concept of candle-light, universally evoking warmth and intimacy.
Revel – 1600 Belle View Renovation
The Revel wine bar in Alexandria, Virginia, creates a relaxing speakeasy atmosphere that celebrates wine and beer through light as a material—dynamically reflected through the skillful application of scale, contrast, and play on light inversions.
Saint Paul Academy and Summit School Addition and Renovation
The redesign for this private middle and upper school unites five decades of buildings in St. Paul, Minnesota, including the original 1916 schoolhouse, a 1970s academic building, a performing arts center, and a recent science addition. The lighting uses linear light modules as a neutral platform to unite the unique buildings and provide quality illumination to various spaces.
Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai
For this Cancer Center relocation on the 7th floor of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Advanced Health Science Pavilion in Los Angeles, the design emphasizes layers of lighting to create an uplifting and warm environment.
Westwood Hills Nature Center
Westwood Hills Nature Center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, is located within a 160-acre nature preserve. To address lighting complexities, the designers applied a philosophy of balance with natural lighting, stylistically blending seamlessly with the architecture to enhances the human experience.
About the Awards
The IES Illumination Awards recognize individuals for professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design. Judges represent a broad professional spectrum who evaluate entries based on how well the lighting design meets the program criteria.
The 2021 IES Illumination Awards were presented at the 2021 Virtual Annual Conference in August. For more information, visit the 48th Annual IES Illumination Awards.