LAM PROJECTS
Hermann Park Lake Plaza: A Light Night Music
Integrated LED steplights create a processional approach to the plaza and reinforce the bridge’s architectural rhythm. What happens when a heavily worn piece of an urban park gets a little well-deserved attention? And what role does lighting play in all of this? Newly renovated Lake Plaza is the crown jewel in Houston’s popular Hermann Park. Run... »
Brown University Joukowsky Institute
Rhode Island Hall, the fourth-oldest building on the main green at Brown University, was built in 1840 and is now the new home for the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Its massive granite block construction features a basement level, first floor, and double-height second floor with substantial skylights. A large connecting... »
Lighting Concept: Video Cascades
Lam Partners was asked to submit a concept for an upcoming Boston Globe article seeking creative, temporary lighting installations to spruce up four stalled construction sites throughout Boston. We chose to undertake the former Filene’s site, located right in the middle of Downtown Crossing. To celebrate the urban basin that has been created by the... »
Custom House Tower: Relighting a Boston Landmark
Custom House after lighting restoration In the Fall of 2008, Boston’s oldest skyscraper was showing its age. Originally completed in 1849, the twenty-year-old façade lighting on the 1915 tower addition was in disrepair. The building maintenance budget could not keep up with the required frequency of re-lamping in such precarious locations, and only a few... »
The Taubman Museum of Art
In Roanoke, Virginia, a luminous river of layered translucent polycarbonate panels runs through the new Taubman Museum’s central circulation space, tipping and turning as it surges among the galleries. It is indirectly lit with pendant indirect fixtures, carefully coordinated for even illumination, and aligned with the panels to provide access from below. Can translucent polycarbonate... »
