Projects in Pictures
Exploring Imaginative Approaches to Lighting Outdoor Spaces
What inspires you? In this issue of Projects in Pictures, we're showcasing the imaginative, interesting, and functional approaches architects and designers are taking in lighting outdoor spaces with wall-mounted lighting elements. As this series unfolds, we'll be featuring lighting designs for projects large and small, near and far, and for a variety of uses.
Warner Building and Haymarket Plaza, Kalamazoo, MI
Once a delivery alley, the Warner Building and Haymarket Plaza is now an expanded, active space shared with people working and living in downtown Kalamazoo but still accessible to delivery trucks and emergency vehicles. Tower Pinkster's landscape architecture team selected Torres wall-mounted lighting to keep the small plaza open, free of poles, and poised to host evening events and visitors. Dual-fixture Torres area lights along the building's entrance illuminate both the sidewalk and street. Read more.
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and Smart VMC, Vaughan, Ontario
The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is a 400-acre parcel of land where a multi-year, multi-phase development is literally building a city. One of the first areas to be developed, Smart VMC comprises 100 acres of residential and office buildings, a transportation hub, and public spaces. A thoughtful transition of promenades, parks, and plazas and playful patterns and shapes − all trademarks of landscape architecture firm Claude Cormier + Associates − add a dynamic spirit to the place. Ashbery wall-mounted lights line the exterior of the transportation center to light the sidewalk along a busy roadway. CC+A, in partnership with lighting designer Marcel Dion, selected Ashbery lights for their timeless design. Read more.
Nickel Plate Trail, Fishers, Indiana
From rail line to linear trail, the Nickel Plate Trail runs 3.8 miles through the city of Fishers, but eventually it will be part of a 40-mile regional trail extending from Noblesville to Indianapolis. Through the downtown core, the trail expands into a linear park that offers trail visitors places to sit and people-watch, enjoy a coffee or lunch, or swing on the popular custom swings installed under the old depot station. Indianapolis-based firm Browning Day's design features a variety of seating options that suit multiple activities, ages, and abilities and add a pop of color to the park. Arne wall-attached lights guide people to the tunnel that connects the trail to downcore Fishers. Read more.
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What inspires you? In this debut of Projects in Pictures, we're showcasing the imaginative, interesting, and functional approaches architects and designers are taking in lighting outdoor spaces. As this series unfolds, we'll be featuring lighting designs for projects large and small, near and far, and for a variety of uses.
Projects in Pictures: Sharing Imaginative Approaches in Lighting Outdoor Spaces
This is the second award for Torres lighting; it also received a Spark award. Torres joins Landscape Forms' MultipliCITY Collection as a Red Dot Award winner.
Torres Lighting Wins Red Dot Award for Product Design
Two of Landscape Forms’ best-selling luminaires have been updated with design and performance features that take advantage of modern technologies and materials. The luminaires are designed and manufactured by Barcelona-based Urbidermis Santa & Cole and distributed exclusively in North America by Landscape Forms.
Enduring Design, Universal Appeal: Rama & Arne Lights Offer Expanded Features
The lighting collection, which would come to be known simply as Torres, stands as one of Landscape Forms’ most celebrated product lines, earning both Spark and Red Dot awards in product design.
Designer Rodrigo Torres: Using Simplicity to Bridge the Fun and Functional