HBA launches lighting design practice

HBA/Hirsch Bedner Associates, a leading global hospitality design firm with an international portfolio of hotels, resorts and spas, is bringing 45 years of experience in creating lighting projects to the global design community through Illuminate. An independent lighting consultancy, Illuminate will provide services beyond HBA projects, reaching-out to all professional design companies and clients by offering them solutions to bring light to their projects.

“Good lighting design should first be dictated by the emotional and creative response, and then facilitated by the mathematical and scientific knowledge,” said Simon Berry, Director of Illuminate. “With the correct balance of light and shadow we draw reference to the natural world. Consider light falling through the branches of a tree creating shadow and texture to the floor beneath; if you remove the shadow then it instantly loses the contrast and the perception of light is lost.”

The lighting design team has a broad range of experience and creative knowledge with backgrounds in architecture, interiors, theatre and engineering, enabling Illuminate to uniquely tailor the approach to each project.

The practice has already completed several projects including the Indigo Hotel Shanghai on the Bund where it created a sophisticated lighting design that has injected life into this unique boutique hotel through creating a dynamic atmosphere via light.

Illuminate has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and Melbourne. Other HBA offices are in Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Brisbane, New Delhi, Dubai and Manila.

www.illuminateld.com