Congratulations to the 2023
Lumen Awards 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

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AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

320 South Canal
Chicago, IL

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

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AWARD OF EXCELLENCE

Tin Building by Jean-Georges
New York, NY

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

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AWARD OF MERIT

Bus Terminal Tokyo Yaesu
Tokyo, Japan

LOOP Lighting 
Ryoko Nakamura, Ruben Gonzalez, and Kaori Hiroki

NIHON SEKKEI 
Yoshiko Nakayama

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AWARD OF MERIT

Chasing Rabbits 
Vail, CO

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

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AWARD OF MERIT

PENN 1 
New York, NY

Lighting Workshop  
Doug Russell, Megan Casey, and Kim Dai

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AWARD OF MERIT

POST Houston 
Houston, TX

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

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AWARD OF MERIT

Trinity Church Wall Street 
New York, NY

Melanie Freundlich Lighting Design   
Melanie Freundlich and Michael Peace

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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

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CITATION FOR COMMUNITY LIGHTING INITIATIVE

Signal Station North
Baltimore, MD

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

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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

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CITATION FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH LIGHT

The Last Ocean
Brooklyn, NY

Jen Lewin Studio  
Jen Lewin and Mikael Flores-Amper

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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

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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

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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.

Eligibility

The Lumen Awards are open to any interior or exterior architectural lighting design project completed within two years’ time of the submission deadline. Projects may be re-submitted during the years a project is eligible.

Eligible projects must be designed by a NYC* based designer(s) for a project located anywhere in the world.
OR
The project must be located in NYC* regardless of the location of the designer(s).