Winners of the 2009 Lumen Awards at the
41st Annual Lumen Gala

On June 10, 2009 the IESNYC announced the recipients of the 2009 Lumen Awards at the 41st Annual Lumen Gala held in New York City. Over 600 leaders in lighting design, architecture, interior design, engineering and manufacturing gathered at New York’s Chelsea Piers.

Special guests at the gala included Laurie Kerr, senior policy advisor on Buildings and Energy–Mayor's Office, City of New York; Russell Unger, executive director, U.S. Green Building Council of New York; Ron Gibbons, president of the Illuminating Engineering Society; Rick Bell, executive director– American Institute of Architects New York City Chapter; Jennifer Jones, International Association of Lighting Designers; Kathleen Carlisle, Designers Lighting Forum of NY; and Jeanine Caunt, vice chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America NYC Section.

A total of twelve Lumen Awards were presented by Elena Mikoleski, Acuity Brands Lighting and Adrienne Shulman, GE Consumer & Industrial to winners.

Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding achievements!

Award of Excellence

Museum of Islamic Arts – Interior
Doha, Qatar

LIGHTING DESIGN
Fisher Marantz Stone
Paul Marantz, Hank Forrest, Rebecca Ho-Dion, Randy Fisher

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Photography: Sami S. Matar and Morley von Sternberg

Lumen Feltman Award of Excellence

Vera Wang New York Flagship Store 
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Tillotson Design Associates
Suzan Tillotson, Leslie Stelly, Christopher Cheap

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Award of Merit

Terminus 100 
Atlanta, GA

LIGHTING DESIGN
Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design 
Francesca Bettridge, Michael Hennes, Mitul Parekh, and Nira Wattanachote

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Award of Merit

Casino of the Winds at Mohegan Sun 
Uncasville, CT

LIGHTING DESIGN
Focus Lighting 
Paul Gregory, Christine Hope, Michael Cummings, Jeff Shepherd, Catherine Tate, and Dan Nichols

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Award of Merit

Royalton Hotel
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Focus Lighting 
Paul Gregory, Ken Ventry, Fiona Wong, and Kenneth Schutz

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Award of Merit

Bar Boulud 
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Tirschwell & Co., Inc.
Matthew Tirschwell and Eleanor MacDonald

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Citation for Technical Lighting Achievement

New York City Waterfalls
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Michael Mehl

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Citation for Integration of Light, Architecture and Signage

TKTS Ticket Booth-Times Square
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Fisher Marantz Stone
Paul Marantz and Barry Citrin

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Photography: Paúl Rivera, archphoto

Citation for Merchandise Lighting

Elizabeth Arden – Fifth Avenue
New York, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
RS Lighting Design
Randy Sabedra

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Photography: Courtesy of Elizabeth Arden

Citation for Illumination of Restaurant Courtyard

Rock Sugar
Los Angeles, CA

LIGHTING DESIGN
Focus Lighting
Paul Gregory, Christine Hope, and Catherine Tate

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Citation for Art Installation in a Public Space

This Way–Under the Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn, NY

LIGHTING DESIGN
Tillett Lighting Design, Inc.
Linnaea Tillett

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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.