Speirs and Major Associates win IALD Radiance Award for third consecutive year

Jonathan Speirs accepted the award at a ceremony, held on 13 May at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel, for his team's external lighting of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque (Grand Mosque) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Radiance Award - the top honour at the annual IALD International Lighting Design Awards - is given to the project that scores highest from across the judging categories.
 
Twenty-three project from across 12 countries were recognised at this 27th edition of the awards with three entries earning Special Citations, 12 receiving Awards of Merit and eight attaining Awards of Excellence.
 
Diane McNabb Rodriguez, Associate IALD member and IALD International Lighting Design Awards chair, expressed her pleasure in the standard of this year’s recipients. “The IALD received more than 200 awe-inspiring submissions in response to its call for entries. The sheer number of winners is evidence that this year’s awards judges had their work cut out for them as the caliber of work submitted raised the standard for excellence in lighting design to a new level.”
 
2010 AWARD WINNERS

Awards of Excellence:

INFINITY BRIDGE - Stockton on Tees, UK
Jonathan Speirs; Speirs & Major Associates
 
VÄSTRA ERIKSBERG CRANE AND DOCK (Gothemburg, Sweden)
Kai Piippo; Ljusarkitektur
 
UTAH STATE CAPITOL RESTORATION (Salt Lake City, USA)
Randy Burkett, FIALD; Randy Burkett Lighting Design Inc
 
CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL - NEW CONCEPT PROTOTYPE (New York City, NY USA)
David Singer; Arc Light Design
 
FIRST NATIONAL BANK METRO CROSSING - GLASS FEATURE WALL (Council Bluffs, IA USA)
David Raver; RDG Planning & Design
 
THE NYBORG BRIDGES (Highway E20, Denmark)
Allan Ruberg; AF - Hansen & Henneberg
 

Awards of Excellence and Sustainability:

NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM (Athens, Greece)
Florence Lam; Arup Lighting
 

Awards of Merit:

CHANEL ENCORE (Las Vegas, USA)
Paul Marantz, FIALD; Fisher Marantz Stone Inc
 
EPPING-CHATSWOOD RAILWAY; MACQUARIE PK & UNIVERSITY STATIONS (North Ryde, Sydney, Australia)
David Becker, Associate IALD; PointOfView
 
JOYERIA D (D JEWELLERY SHOP) (Pamplona, Spain)
Antón Amann; architectural lighting solutions (ALS)

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (Canberra, Australia)
Mirjam Roos, Associate IALD; Steensen Varming Australia
 
STEPHEN M. ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, USA)
Keith J. Yancey, IALD; Lam Partners Inc

CANADA LINE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM (Vancouver, Canada)
Galina Zbrizher, IALD; Total Lighting Solutions
 
NOVARTIS CAMPUS, MAKI OFFICE BUILDING (Basel, Switzerland) 
Martina Weiss/ Andreas Schulz, Associate IALD; Licht Kunst Licht AG
 
THE PULI HOTEL (Shanghai, China)
Andrew Jaques; The Flaming Beacon
 
SANDS BETHWORKS RETAINED EDIFICES, BETHLEHEM (Bethleham, USA)
Jonathan Speirs; Speirs & Major Associates
 
USGBC HEADQUARTERS (Washington, DC USA)
David C. Roederer; Clanton & Associates Inc
 
AUTO STORAGE FACILITY (Westchester, USA)
William Schwinghammer; Schwinghammer Lighting
 
PRIVATE SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENCE (San Francisco, USA)
Paul Marantz, FIALD; Fisher Marantz Stone Inc
 
Special Citation for Whimsical Expression of Fun through Light and Architecture:
ZA –KOENJI (Tokyo, Japan) 
Hiroyasu Shoji; LightDesign Inc
 
Special Citation for Kinetic, Façade-Integrated Corporate Identity:
SHOWROOM ROCA (Barcelona, Spain)
Maurici Gines; artec3
 
Special Citation for Daylighting Integration in a Museum Setting:
THE MODERN WING AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO (Chicago, USA)
Andrew Sedgwick; Arup Lighting