Congratulations to the

2023 LUMEN AWARD RECIPIENTS

The IESNYC is pleased to honor the brilliant award winning projects and the exceptional talent behind those who designed, built and engineered them.

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

The Morgan Library & Museum Garden
New York, NY

Linnaea Tillett Lighting Design Associates
Linnaea Tillett, Janet Garwood, Chadwick Carswell, Jeanne Choi, and Khwanrudee Samranvedhya

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

320 South Canal
Chicago, IL

One Lux Studio
Stephen Margulies, Yasamin Shahamiri, Taki Taniguchi, and SoHyung Bahng

AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

Tin Building by Jean-Georges
New York, NY

L'Observatoire International
Hervé Descottes, Carlos Garcia, and Esteban Varas

AWARD OF MERIT

Bus Terminal Tokyo Yaesu
Tokyo, Japan

LOOP Lighting
Ryoko Nakamura, Ruben Gonzalez, and Kaori Hiroki

NIHON SEKKEI
Yoshiko Nakayama

AWARD OF MERIT

Chasing Rabbits
Vail, CO

Focus Lighting
Valentina Doro, Juan Pablo Lira, Erin Ryan, Zoe Neijna, Kenny Schutz, and David Bull

AWARD OF MERIT

PENN 1
New York, NY

Lighting Workshop
Doug Russell, Megan Casey, and Kim Dai

AWARD OF MERIT

POST Houston
Houston, TX

Dot Dash
Christopher Cheap, Marcelline Lacombe, Chen Chen, Marta Casarin, and Isabel Sanchez Sevillano

AWARD OF MERIT

Trinity Church Wall Street
New York, NY

Melanie Freundlich Lighting Design
Melanie Freundlich and Michael Peace

CITATION FOR
INTEGRATION OF DAYLIGHT AND ELECTRIC LIGHT

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Renfro Design Group
Richard Renfro, Sarah Randall, Silvia Mazzarri, and Fabio Tuchiya

CITATION FOR COMMUNITY LIGHTING INITIATIVE

Signal Station North
Baltimore, MD

Flux Studio Ltd
Glenn Shrum, Laura Dillon, and Paloma Sherman

CITATION FOR AN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT

The Journey to Edge/Peak
New York, NY

BOLD LLC
Gary Wong, Mai Shimizu, Brian Orter, Alyssa Ayow, Bradley Clements, and Charlie Dumais

CITATION FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH LIGHT

The Last Ocean
Brooklyn, NY

Jen Lewin Studio
Jen Lewin and Mikael Flores-Amper

CITATION FOR ARTIFACT ILLUMINATION

The Silver Vault Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Hartford, CT

Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
Anita Jorgensen, Joe Ballweg, and Katherine Lindsay

CITATION FOR ENTRY AND LOBBY LIGHTING

Willis Tower Repositioning
Chicago, IL

Kugler Ning Lighting
Ashley Moench, Burr Rutledge, Jerry Kugler, Meryl Sell, Eric Benne, and Jackson Ning II

ABOUT THE IESNYC 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.

Photo Gallery

2023 Judges

Gabe Guilliams
Buro Happold

Ashley Moench
Kugler Ning Lighting

Nathalie Rozot
PhoScope

Brian Smith
ICRAVE / Journey

Joshua Spitzig
Atelier Ten

Al Uszynski
inside lighting

Darina Zlateva
KPF

2023 Lumen Journal

Lumen Gala Videos

2023 Committee

Co-Chairs
Clara Powell, Cooledge Lighting
Adrienne Shulman, ERCO Lighting, Inc.

Board Liaison and Creative Director
Randy Sabedra, RS Lighting Design

Lumen Awards Sales Manager
Anna Kim, Enterprise Lighting Sales

Gala Lighting Coordinator
Jordan Cohen, International Lights

Social Media Coordinator
Matt Dacey, Synergy NYC

Print and Digital Designer
Cathy Bontempo, Harborlight Design

Members
Nathaniel Bliss, Specification Lighting Sales
Christine Hope, Focus Lighting
James O’Blaney, O’Blaney Rinker Associates
Asher Schoenberg, Stan Deutsch Associates