FX – August 2019

078 LIGHT + TECH

Winners of the 36th IALD

International Lighting Design Awards

Award / Project

Radiance

Kimpton Fitzroy

Excellence

Antwerp’s

Cathedral and

immediate

surroundings

Excellence

Bloomberg

European

headquarters

Excellence

Emerson

College student

dining centre

Excellence

A family of

bridges for the

town of

Riedlingen

Excellence

Gasholders

London

Excellence

Gateway Arch

Museum

Excellence

London

Mithraeum

Excellence

Lounge Bridge

in Shimen

Village

Excellence

Meixi Urban

Helix

Excellence

MT Fuji Heritage

Centre

Merit

Amaranthyne

Merit

Amorepacific

Headquarters

Merit

BPX Energy

Merit

Centro Botín

Merit

CF Toronto

Eaton Centre

Bridge

Merit

Exhibition Halls

and Workshops

of Rice Barns

Merit

KU Medical

Center Health

Education

Building

Merit

Raku

Merit

Rothy’s at

Fillmore

Merit

Scottish

Parliament

Debating

Chamber

Merit

Stovnertårnet

(The Stovner

Tower)

Merit

Washington/

Wabash

Elevated Train

Station

Lighting designer / Location

Ben Ferris, Lighting Design

International

London, UK

Susanna Antico, Susanna Antico

Lighting Design Studio

Antwerp, Belgium

Suzan Tillotson,

Tillotson Design Associates

London, UK

Francesca Bettridge, IALD, Cline

Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design

Boston, USA

Christiane Sander, schlaich

bergermann partner

Riedlingen, Germany

Mark Major, FIALD, Speirs + Major

London, UK

Suzan Tillotson, IALD,

Tillotson Design Associates

St Louis, USA

Suzan Tillotson, IALD,

Tillotson Design Associates

London, UK

Xin Zhang School of Architecture,

Tsinghua University, One Lighting

Associates (Beijing)

Songyang of Lishui, Zhejiang, China

Jean Sundin

Office for Visual Interaction

Changsha, China

Kaoru Mende, Lighting Planners

Associates

Fujinomiya-Shi, Shizuoka-ken, Japan

Michael O’Donovan Haberdashery

London, UK

Alexander Rotsch

Arup Deutschland

Seoul, South Korea

Rachel Fitzgerald, IALD, Stantec

Denver, USA

Maurici Gines, artec3 Studio

Santander, Spain

Keith Bradshaw, (Concept by)

Speirs + Major

Toronto, Canada

Xin Zhang, School of Architecture,

Tsinghua University, One Lighting

Associates (Beijing)

Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China

Mark Hershman,

Henderson Engineers

Kansas City, USA

Donn Salisbury, Electrolight

Canberra, Australia

Claudio Ramos, Electrolight

San Francisco, USA

Kevan Shaw, FIALD, KSLD | EFLA

Lighting Design

Edinburgh, UK

Morten Jensen, ÅF Lighting

Oslo, Norway

Aram Ebben, EXP

Chicago, USA

The 19th-century Kimpton Fitzroy hotel in

Bloomsbury was designed by Charles

Fitzroy Doll (who subsequently designed

the Titanic’s dining room) in 1898. One of

London’s grand old establishments, it has

undergone an £85m facelift that has

included literally bringing its typically

intricate and ornate Victorian facade –

thé-au-lait terracotta – to light.

The scheme is nuanced and restrained,

revealing key details and creating a careful

symmetry. The elaborate architecture is

used to conceal a combination of low- and

high-output fittings that balance the

intensity across the entire building. These

effects were considered both from the

perspective of the entire building as well

as on each individual level, creating linear

compositions of light.

From the two towers that frame the

main entrance to the many columns, the

building features multiple tall elements

throughout. For the ground level columns

10W 10-degree uplights are used, while

the first floor balconies are uplit by 7W

10-degree fittings. The turquoise turrets

and corner domes are washed by 10W

nine-degree and 59-degree linear grazers

to throw light upwards.

‘The design features heavy shadowing

against the tiling, adding drama for

street-level viewers as well as viewers

further away in the square,’ says Ben Ferris

of Lighting Design International.

Lighting effects are repeated across

levels in part because of the limited viewing

angles due to the trees and other buildings

in Russell Square. These frame each facade,

illuminating the structural lines of the

building. To strengthen the frame of the

building, each window reveal includes 1.7W

12-degree highlighters aimed at the corners

of the building and positioned to ensure

they do not spill into any guestrooms.

Acknowledging the historic nature of

the building, detail lighting emphasises

the column details, coats of arms, shields,

door reveals and the four British queens

guarding the entrance. ‘The combination

of strategically placed uplights and

highlights creates dramatic shadows and

points of interest,’ says Ferris.

KIMPTON FITZROY, LONDON

LIGHTING DESIGN Lighting Design International

AWARD Radiance Award

PROJECT INFO

Client Covivio/IHG

Architect EPR Architects

Main contractor S&T

Electrical contractor LJJ

JUDGES’ VERDICTS

‘A restrained elegance.’

‘How an intimidating building

can be ‘made beautiful and

simple with thoughtful

considerations.’

‘It is about lighting the key

elements and selecting

elements that they do not

illuminate as well, providing

beautiful layerings of light.’

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