2009 NightSeeing Map of NYC's most spectacular Nightscapes from Dusk to Dawn
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From east to west are a variety of lighting projects and three walking opportunities to take in the night. In the West Village a walk along the Hudson River Park provides lovely views of evening activity on the river and the changing scenery of New Jersey. Continue north towards Gansevoort Street to the colorful Theory Building and Gansevoort Hotel among the lively bars and restaurants of the Meat Packing District. At 14th Street the Porter House sits perched high overlooking the Apple Store and Diane Von Furstenberg. Walking north along 10th Avenue you’ll pass Morimoto and Chelsea Market heading towards the new InterActiveCorp Headquarters on West 18th Street. Amble over to Union Square for a panoramic view of the ConEd Clock Tower (P26), Zeckendorf Towers (P25), and the W Union Square Hotel. Walk down University Place to the Washington Square Arch then stroll towards Soho’s shops and restaurants on Greene Street where you find the Alessi Flagship Store and Apple Store Soho. Turn on Spring Street for Amore Pacific towards Broadway to find Prada Soho and Tommy Hilfiger Denim.
1. InterActiveCorp Headquarters – 11th Avenue and West 18th Street. Lighting: Brandston Partnership
Photography: Nelson Jenkins
2. Diane Von Furstenberg – 14th Street west of Ninth Avenue. Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates
3. The Porter House – 15th Street and 9th Avenue. Lighting: SHoP Architects
2006 Lumen Citation
Located in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan, The Porter House consists of the renovation and conversion of a six story warehouse to condominium use and includes a new, cantilevered six story structure. The façade is comprised of a custom fabricated metal panel system and internally mounted light boxes, which blur the massing of the building as day turns to night. Marine grade fluorescent fixtures are installed within each galvanized steel box and hinged opalene acrylic panels are used for exterior access. The box is met along its sides on the face of the building by zinc channels to define the lit panel and cover the galvanized edges of the box. The box is installed in such a way as to shed water down and out and over the zinc panels below to prevent water from entering the façade.
Architect/Lighting: Gregg Pasquarelli, Kimberly Holden, Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, William Sharples, SHoP Architects
Project Owner: Jeffrey Brown, Jeffrey M. Brown Associates
Photography: Seong Kwon
4. The Gansevoort Hotel – West 13th Street and 9th Avenue. Lighting: Focus Lighting
5. Theory Building – 40 Gansevoort Street and Little West 12th Street. Lighting: L’Observatoire International
Ligjhting: L'Observatoire International
Architect: Morris Adjmi Architects
Photography: ESTO Photography
6. W Hotel Union Square – 201 Park Avenue South at 17th Street. Lighting: Johnson Schwinghammer
7. Washington Square Arch – 5th Avenue and Washington Square North. Lighting: Domingo Gonzalez Associates
8. Center for Architecture/IESNYC – LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and 3rd Street. Lighting: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design
9. Hudson River Park – Westside Highway between 12th Street and Morton Street. Lighting: Domingo Gonzalez Associates (master plan), Fisher Marantz Stone
10. Holland Tunnel Vent Building – Westside Highway and Spring Street. Lighting: Domingo Gonzalez Associates
11. Alessi Flagship Store – 130 Greene Street between Prince and Houston Street. Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates
2007 Lumen Award of Merit - journal page
Nine luminous stripes of light articulate the undulating space, giving it both structure and the illusion of vastness. The lighting stripes are based on feedback lines in video distortion and augment the otherworldly quality of the store. The predominate use of reflective surfaces demands very controlled use of pin spots to highlight products without glare, while the reflection of the diffuse stripes creates exciting patterns of warped lines.
Lighting: Mark Kubicki, Shiri Cnaani, Suzan Tillotson, Tillotson Design Associates
Architect: Hani Rashid, Lise Anne Couture, Asymptote Architecture
Project Owner: Alessi Flagship Store
Photography: Elizabeth Felicalla
12. Apple Store SoHo – 103 Prince at Greene Street. Lighting: ISP Design
13. Prada SoHo – 575 Broadway at Prince Street. Lighting: Kugler Ning Associates, Inc.
14. New Museum of Contemporary Art – 235 Bowery at east end of Prince Street. Lighting: Tillotson Design Associates
2008 Luimen Award of Merit
The lighting was a challenge when the architect asked that each gallery be illuminated to a minimum of 60 footcandles. The custom removable fluorescent “trackhead” was designed to be refined, minimal, locally switched and plugged into busway, allowing for installations from video to sensitive works and providing a light that is “very honest and direct, much like the museum’s art.”
Lighting: Suzan Tillotson David Burya Stasa Celigoj Vivie Chia-Yu Lin SANAA/ Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa Florian Idenburg
Photography: Iwan Baan Portsmuiden
15. Amore Pacific – 114 Spring Street between Mercer and Greene Street. Lighting Designer: Cooley Monato Studio
2004 Lumen Award of Excellence
The design of this New York City skin care boutique mirrors the company philosophy of organic ingredients used to create its product. Within the architecture, the elements of water, earth, tree, metal, and fire are represented in either a literal or in a symbolic form. The atmosphere of soothing warm light emanates from indirect sources behind the mirror and adjacent walls.
Lighting: Cooley Monato Studio
Designer: Yabu Pushelberg
Owner: Amore Pacific
16. Tommy Hilfiger Denim – 500 Broadway between Broome and Spring Streets. Lighting: Reed Barrow
Photography: Reed Barrow
17. Manhattan Bridge Entrance – Canal and South Street. Lighting: Kugler Ning Associates, Inc.
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