Winners of the 2021 IESNYC Lumen Awards

Congratulations for their Outstanding Achievements!

We are beyond excited to celebrate great work coming out of the New York City lighting design community in this most difficult year. With expanded promotional content online, we bring well-deserved recognition to the winners. And we share — at a distance — their joy and pride in their lighting design teams, their collaborators, and the owners of these great projects.

We remain hopeful that, within the year, we will gather safely to celebrate together in numbers. That will be a Lumen Awards Gala for the ages: the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Until that day, we raise our glasses at home. Good health! Better days! Congratulations to the 2021 Lumen Award winners!

—Lumen Awards Co-chairs: Clara Powell and Adrienne Shulman

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

Fotografiska New York
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Kugler Ning Lighting
Jerry Kugler, Michele Clement, Yungbin Kim, Damian VanCamp, Terry Nelson, and Chandej (Joe) Nakalertkavee

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

Saint Thomas Church
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Renfro Design Group
Richard Renfro, Sarah Randall, Silvia Mazzarri, Fabio Tuchiya, and Jenny Stafford

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

The Waterline Club at Waterline Square
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Focus Lighting
Stephanie Daigle, Brett Andersen, Andrew Leslie, Hilary Manners, and Zackry Weigand

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Domingo Gonzalez Associates
Domingo Gonzalez, Ilva Dodaj, Yi-Szu Liao, and AC Hickox

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

Financial Services NYC Flagship
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN

Kugler Ning Lighting
Burr Rutledge, Meryl Sell, Maggie Judge, and Jackson Ning II

Lighting Research Center
Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD, Kassandra Gonzales, and Charles Jarboe

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

HONY Capital Shenzhen Headquarters
Shenzhen, China

LIGHTING DESIGN
Tillotson Design Associates
Suzan Tillotson, Shan Jiang, Chandni Azeez, and Esteban Varas

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

MCC Theater
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN

Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design
Stephen D. Bernstein, Renata Gallo, and Marty Salzberg

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

Samuel De Champlain Bridge
Montreal, Canada

LIGHTING DESIGN
HLB Lighting Design
Ken Douglas, Elizabeth Johnson, and Joe Spinnato

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

The David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN

HLB Lighting Design
Barbara Horton, Maria Dautant, Ketryna Fares, and Luis Carrasquillo-Alicea

ICRAVE/LICHT
Renée Joosten and Patricia Vallejo

PROJECT INFORMATION

AWARD OF MERIT

Zero Bond
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Focus Lighting
Edwin Allen, Brett Andersen, Theodora Chiu, Anna Krutsenko, and Hilary Manners

PROJECT INFORMATION

CITATION FOR FOR HISTORIC RESTORATION

Enoch Pratt Library
Baltimore, MD

LIGHTING DESIGN
Tillotson Design Associates
Suzan Tillotson and Dagmara Nowak

PROJECT INFORMATION

CITATION FOR LIGHTING AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

OPEN
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
The Flint Collective NYC
Leela Shanker, Robert Van Antwerp, Jennifer June, Christina Yu-Ting Wang, Marco Lafiandra, Ana Lucia Ahumada, Carl Everett, JP Bedell, Andrea Nicole Puyat, Bill Kennedy, Tavish Miller, Samuel Powers, Marta Casarin, Billy Wong, Emmanuel Oni, David Zheutlin, Sam Kallman, Brian Bulaya, Shashank Singal, Matteo Seconi, Elaine Cook, Francis Grunfeld, and Kia Rogers

PROJECT INFORMATION

CITATION FOR ARTISTIC MEDIA-DRIVEN INSTALLATION

The Prow at WarnerMedia HQ
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
ESI Design, an NBBJ studio
Edwin Schlossberg, Angela Greene, Kristen Svorka, Cara Buckley, Stuart Fox, Stephanie Land, Jonathan Grimm, Morgen Fleisig, HK Han, Yuri Sunahara, Michael Schneider, Ed Purver, Lauren Gibbons, Jillian Booty, Ania Wagner, and Jeremy Thompson

PROJECT INFORMATION

CITATION FOR SENSITIVE INTEGRATION OF FAÇADE LIGHTING

The Shed
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Tillotson Design Associates
Suzan Tillotson, Erin Dreyfous, and Megan Trimarchi

PROJECT INFORMATION

About the Lumen Awards

The IESNYC Lumen Awards program was conceived and managed by the New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1968. It was developed to publicly recognize lighting design members whose exceptional professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design has culminated in some of the world’s most innovative lighting projects.



Awards are presented in the following categories:

Lumen Award of Excellence
The highest level of recognition for permanent architectural application.

Lumen Award of Merit
Meritorious recognition for permanent architectural application.

Lumen Citation
Special recognition for an art installation, technical detail, portion of a single project, temporary installation or other work.