The 2014 GE Edison Award is presented to
Claudio
Ramos,
Hiram Banks,
Erin
Sudderth and
Matt Landl of BANKS|RAMOS
Architectural Lighting Design for lighting Square Inc. Headquarters
in San Francisco, California, USA. The project also received an
Award for Environmental Design, reflecting exemplary energy
efficiency and environmentally sensitive design. This is the third
time since this award was first instituted in the 2002 competition
that this has occurred. A personalized Steuben crystal award for
the winner of this 32nd annual lighting design competition was
presented by GE Lighting on May 4, 2015, in New York, New York.
A photo accompanying this press release is available at
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=32742
The new headquarters for Square Inc., a mobile payments startup
company, is designed to be open and collaborative. With 175,000
square feet of useable space that spans the length of an entire
city block, the design team's challenge was to make the space feel
hospitable while accommodating future growth and expansion. The
goal was to create an office interior that echoes the company's
values of modern and functional design. Lighting plays an important
role in establishing way-finding, defining "communities" within the
space, and providing the feeling of daylight throughout the floor
plate.
By using a variety of high-performance fluorescent and LED
solutions, BANKS|RAMOS was able to reduce lamp quantity and energy
usage. General lighting throughout the open-office area and team
rooms is provided by GE 21-watt and 28-watt T5 fluorescent lamps.
Custom linear suspended pendants with dimmable LEDs create an
elegant cadence down the main building corridor, and continue
through floating wood ceiling slats which also conceal GE 7-watt
LED MR16 lamps that illuminate art and signage. An upper level
dining area, commercial kitchen and servery are illuminated with
12-foot dimmable T5 fluorescent pendants and continuous LED track
lighting, again detailed within a floating wood ceiling.
Daylight harvesting reduces electric lighting consumption to 65%
in open office areas during bright daytimes. The lighting power
density is 0.64 watts per square foot, 29% below ASHRAE 90.1
throughout the entire project to ensure LEED Gold®
certification.
"The Square Inc. Headquarters project proves that elegant,
modern lighting doesn't need to mean high energy and maintenance
costs," said Mary Beth Gotti, Manager, GE Lighting & Electrical
Institute. "Smart lighting design helps to achieve an ambience that
is inspiring yet inviting, and also means the office will remain an
environmentally friendly space, even as the company grows."
A panel of five judges selected this year's winning entry for
its superiority in the following categories: functional excellence;
architectural compatibility; effective use of state-of-the-art
lighting products and techniques; appropriate color, form and
texture revelation; energy effectiveness; and cost
effectiveness.
Judges for the 32nd annual competition were:
- Gilberto Franco, IALD, AsBAI, MIES, Franco Associados Lighting
Design, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Jeff Kinstler, MIES, GE Lighting Specification Engineer – East,
New York, NY USA
- Sean O'Connor, IALD, MIES, Sean O'Connor Lighting, Los Angeles,
CA USA
- Robert Shook, FIALD, LC, Schuler Shook Lighting Designers,
Chicago, IL USA
The winning project was one of three Awards of Excellence
finalists. The other Awards of Excellence winners were:
- LWL–Museum of Art and Culture in
Muenster (Munster, Germany) designed by Andreas
Schulz, Martina Weiss and Laura Sudbrock, Licht Kunst Licht AG
(Bonn, Germany). Acknowledgements: Staab Architekten GmbH
(Berlin, Germany); Exhibition designer SPACE4 GmbH (Stuttgart,
Germany) along with LDE Belzner Holmes (Stuttgart,
Germany).
- St. Louis Art Museum East Building (St. Louis,
Missouri, USA) designed by Andy Sedgewick, Andrew McNeil and Chris
Rush, Arup (London, UK/San Francisco, CA/New York, NY).
Acknowledgements: Sir David Chipperfield, Franz Borho, Julie Bauer
and Silke Hoss, David Chipperfield Architects (London, UK);
Roger McFarland, Eric Hoffman, and Nicole Crabiel, HOK (St. Louis,
MO, USA); and Steve Andert, William Tao & Associates (St.
Louis, MO, USA).
Also presented at the GE Edison Awards ceremony were five Awards
of Merit, one Special Citation for Creative Lighting
Effects.
Visit www.gelighting.com to view all the award winners of
the 2014 GE Edison Awards in more detail and to find information
related to the 2014 GE Edison Award call for entries.
*LEED® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Green Building
Council®
About the GE Edison Award
GE Lighting sponsors the annual GE Edison Award competition to
recognize excellence and quality in professional lighting designs
that employ significant use of GE Lighting Products, including, but
not limited to, GE LED systems, LED luminaires, LED lamps and
modules, LED architectural products, lighting controls and non-LED
lamps and luminaires. Projects must be completed within the prior
two calendar years. Entries are judged on the following criteria:
functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use
of state-of-the-art lighting products and techniques; appropriate
color, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness; and cost
effectiveness. Qualifying entries remain anonymous throughout the
judging process.
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2014 Awards of Merit
Art Museum Ahrenshoop (Ahrenshoop, Germany)
Licht Kunst Licht AG (Berlin, Germany/Bonn, Germany)
- Andreas Schulz
- Maik Czarniak
- Benjamin Dorff
Acknowledgement: Staab Architekten
GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
Drees & Sommer Headquarters (Stuttgart,
Germany)
Lichtwerke Architectural Lighting Designers (Cologne,
Germany)
Dulles Metro Rail/Silver Line (Northern,
Virginia, USA)
Domingo Gonzalez Associates (New York, New York, USA)
- Domingo Gonzalez
- AC Hickox
- Patrick Merosier
Acknowledgement: Fredrik Amnäs,
Domingo Gonzalez Associates (New York, NY, USA)
Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
(Stuttgart, Germany)
Licht Kunst Licht AG (Berlin,
Germany)
- Edwin Smida
- Andreas Schulz
Acknowledgement: Staab Architekten
GmbH (Berlin, Germany)
Northrup Auditorium Renovation (Minneapolis, Minnesota,
USA)
HGA Architects and Engineers (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)
Arup (San Francisco, California, USA)
Special Citation for Creative Lighting
Effects
"Northern Lights" on John F. Kennedy Center
(Washington, DC, USA)
LightingDesign.dk (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Image Engineering (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington,
DC, USA)
CONTACT: Megan Lavelle
megan.lavelle@ge.com
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