Lightfair was the host for the 32nd Annual IALD International Lighting Design Awards presented May 6, 2015, at an evening program and reception held at Gotham Hall in New York City. Fifteen projects four Awards of Excellence, 10 Awards of Merit, and 1 Special Citation were recognized from a field of more than 200 international entries. The Radiance Award, the program’s highest honor, went to BUME Perfect Illumination Design & Engineering Company for their work on the Han Show Theatre in Wuhan City, Hubei, China.
Projects were reviewed and evaluated by a group of lighting and architectural professionals at the IALD’s headquarter offices in Chicago in December 2014. The jury members were as follows: Gilberto Franco, Franco Associados, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Lewis Goetz, Baskervill, Metro Washington, D.C.; Stephen Lees, Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, New York; Maureen Moran, MCLA Architectural Lighting Design, Washington, D.C.; Leslie North, Aurora Lighting Design, Graylake, Ill., Lee Prince, Light & Design Associates, London; Jason Rosenblatt, Nelson, Chicago.
The full list of 2015 winning projects is:
Radiance Award
Project: Han Show Theatre in Wuhan City, Hubei, China
Lighting Designers: BUME Perfect Illumination Design & Engineering Company
Award of Excellence
Project: The National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center, New York
Lighting Designers: Fisher Marantz Stone, New York
Xing Kaiqun
Award of Excellence
Project: Zhenhai Culture & Art Center, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Lighting Designers: Ningbo Yongqi Lighting Co.
Will Scott Photography
Award of Excellence
Project: Kings Cross Square, London
Lighting Designers: Studio Fractal Lighting Design, Gatwick, West Sussex, U.K.
Naho Kubota
Award of Merit
Project: Stapleton Library, Staten Island, N.Y.
Lighting Designers: Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design, New York
Award of Merit
Project: Kyobashi Child Institution, Tokyo
Lighting Designers: Lighting M, Tokyo
Henrik Kam, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Award of Merit
Project: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Salon Doré, San Francisco
Lighting Designers: Auerbach Glasow French, San Francisco
Stefan Muller
Award of Merit
Project: Art Museum Ahrenshoop, Osteseebad Ahrenshoop, Germany
Elizabeth Donoff is Editor-at-Large of Architectural Lighting (AL). She served as Editor-in-Chief from 2006 to 2017. She joined the editorial team in 2003 and is a leading voice in the lighting community speaking at industry events such as Lightfair and the International Association of Lighting Designers Annual Enlighten Conference, and has twice served as a judge for the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Lumen Award program. In 2009, she received the Brilliance Award from the IESNYC for dedicated service and contribution to the New York City lighting community.
Over the past 11 years, under her editorial direction, Architectural Lighting has received a number of prestigious B2B journalism awards. In 2017, Architectural Lighting was a Top Ten Finalist for Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors' AZBEE Awards. In 2016, Donoff received the Jesse H. Neal Award for her Editor’s Comments in the category of Best Commentary/Blog, and in 2015, AL received a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Media Brand (Overall Editorial Excellence).
Prior to her entry into design journalism, Donoff worked in New York City architectural offices including FXFowle where she was part of the project teams for the Reuters Building at Three Times Square and the New York Times Headquarters. She is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Me., and she earned her Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
