Next year best lighting projects and products for Lighting Design Awards 2014 was announced.
The event will take place in London, on the 20th of March in London Hilton, Park Lane.
The best and most influencial brands of lighting spend their year waiting for this award where the difference, outstanding and innovative lighting lamps and projects are refered.
This award as several categories devided into product, project and overall.
The Product Innovation Award distinguishes Light Sources, Lighting Controls , Interior Luminaires and External Luminaires.
The Lighting Project categories are: Exterior Lighting, Heritage, Workplace Lighting, Large Retail (more than 5,000 square feat), Small Retail (less than 5,000 square feet), Lighting for leisure, Public Buildings, Hotels and Restaurants, Special Projects, Low Carbon, International Project ( Interiors) and the Dayligh Award Categorie. Some of this categories are sponserd.
The overall categories are perhaps the most important ones: Manufacturer of the Year and Designer of the Year, this last one is sponsered by Toshiba and distinguishes the deisgner that: “as exhibited exceptional lighting design skills, innovation and vision over the past year.”
Here we leave you some images from some of the projects that were announced in this shortlist.
The Daylight Award, tends to show the projects that give the best use to the dayligh, like this amazing WWF Living Planet Centre from Atelier Ten.
The Scale Lane Footbridge is an Exterior Lighting that is one of the candidates to the Exterior Lighting Award.
The Guildhall London Crypts is one of the projects that can win in the Heritage Categorie.
The Hotel Aquad,the Shard in London is a nominee for Hotel and Restaurant Project.
The Memorial to the Victims of Violence, in Mexico City is one candidate to the International Exterior Lighting Award.
The Internationational Interior Project like the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, in Baku is one of the most amazing in this categorie.
The newly open Alexander McQueen Store at Savile Row, in London, is in the shortlist for Large Retail Award.
For Small Retail, the lovely Snog store in London is one strong candidate.
For leisure, the Everyman Cinema is on the shorlist…
For Low Carbon, this project from Hoare Lea Lighting is on the list…
And for Public Building, this amazing May Rose Museum in Portsmouth.
For Special Projects, this Chase the Dark from ACDC.
And finally, we have for the Working Place categorie amazing projects like this one…
