Last night in Las Vegas, Dallas City Performance Hall received the GE Edison Award, the top award given by GE for architectural lighting design internationally. The award capped a night of recognition for Schuler Shook’s designers, with three other projects capturing awards in various lighting categories.
Dallas City Performance Hall
Dallas, Texas
GE Edison Award
Lighting Design Team: Robert Shook, FIALD; Maureen Mahr, IALD, IES, LC, LEED AP; Jennifer Curtis; Kimberley Corbett-Oates, ASTC; and Jefferey Knox, IES. Schuler Shook’s lighting design met the goal of creating an innovative lighting design that welcomes visitors to the gateway of the Arts District and blends light and art within the theatre itself.
Loyola University - Damen Student Center
Chicago, Illinois
GE Award of Merit
Lighting Design Team: Jim Baney, IALD, IES, LC, LEED AP; Maureen Mahr, IALD, IES, LC, LEED AP; Jennifer Curtis and Kanis Glaewketgarn. Schuler Shook’s lighting designers successfully integrated daylighting with electric lighting schemes in this open, airy two-story building.
Loyola University Institute of Environmental
Chicago, Illinois
GE Award for Environmental Design
Lighting Design Team: Jim Baney, IALD, IES, LC, LEED AP; Giulio Pedota, IALD, IES, LC, LEED AP; Miory Kanashiro, LC, LEED AP. As the lighting designers noted in their submission, “The lighting design features environmentally-sensitive strategies such as maximizing the use of daylight, utilizing energy-efficient, low-mercury content sources, and controlling fixtures via a digital dimming system.” This project combines aesthetics and efficiency in the lighting design.
RiverEdge Park
Aurora, Illinois
GE Special Citation
Lighting Design Team: Robert Shook, FIALD; Maureen Mahr, IALD, IES, LC, LEED AP; Kanis Glaewketgarn; Jennifer Curtis; Christopher Sprague, ASTC, Lisa Bernacchi and David Steele.
Given only at the discretion of the judges, a Special Citation award “rewards exceptional creativity, community-responsiveness or other design criteria that are met in an exemplary fashion.”
RiverEdge Park is a new gathering place where art meets nature. Programmable, color-changing lighting is integrated into the architecture of the live theatre and music pavilion, allowing for a range of effects and adding energy to the performance space.