David Atkinson wins UK 'Lighting Designer of the Year'

David Atkinson, the creative director of DALD, last night won the coveted ‘Lighting Designer of the Year’ award at the UK Lighting Design Awards. His projects, many of which have been covered in mondo*arc (including his recent ‘Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes’ at the V&A in London in issue 59), have included heritage sites, interactive museums, retail, hotels and contemporary architectural projects.

Atkinson studied at LAMDA and after spending several years in theatre, commercial presentation, music, fashion and television he established as an independent designer for architectural installations.

Other winners on the night were:

International Project
Winner: Licht Kunst Licht, Telekom Bridge, Bonn
Highly Commended: TREUSCH architecture, Ars Electronica Center, Linz; dpa lighting design, Private Residential Health Spa, Qatar
Commended: KSLD, Al-Tijaria Tower, Kuwait; Licht Kunst Licht, ThyssenKrupp Quarter, Essen

Exterior Lighting
Winner: Light and Design Associates, Ripon Cathedral Exterior Lighting
Highly Commended: dpa lighting design, Tudor Square, Sheffield
Commended: Maurice Brill Lighting Design, Regent’s Place Pavilion

Heritage
Winner: Sutton Vane Associates, Leighton House
Highly Commended: Do-Architecture, Royal Border Bridge, Berwick Upon Tweed

Hotel and Restaurants
Winner: Into Lighting, Galvin La Chapelle

Lighting for Leisure
Winner: BDP, The Point
Commended: Speirs + Major, Devonshire Square, London

Low Carbon
Winner: Light and Design Associates, The Dorchester Collection, Coworth Park Spa
Highly Commended: Arup Lighting, Scotstoun House

Public Buildings
Winner: KSLD, Ashmolean Museum
Highly Commended: Arup Lighting and dha designs, Medieval & Renaissance Galleries, V&A Museum
Commended: Arup Lighting, Nottingham Contemporary

Residential
Winner: Workplane Lightplanning, Private residence, North London

Retail
Winner: Light and Design Associates, Arc Shopping Centre Bury St Edmunds

Special Projects
Winner: Jason Bruges Studio, Platform 5
Highly Commended: WHITEvoid interactive art & design, THE WAVE; Midas, The Mill Project; Alan Tulla, for Designs for Lighting, Grayshott Square, Hampshire

Workplace Lighting
Winner: Light Bureau, KPMG, 15 Canada Square