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Healthy Exterior Night Lighting – Is There Such a Thing?
Many people would argue that the healthiest lighting at night is no lighting at all. Studies are revealing that biological rhythms are offset, sleep patterns are disrupted, even breast and prostate cancers are more likely with disrupted circadian rhythms, due in part to improper lighting at improper times of the day. The human race evolved... »
The Next Big Step
Lighting design hasn’t changed much since someone first decided to call himself a lighting designer. Twenty years ago, the most earth-shattering developments were in fluorescent lamps; ten years ago saw advances in ceramic metal halide; today we’re cautiously welcoming LEDs into regular practice. LEDs really do have the potential to displace a lot of... »
Drinking the LED Kool-Aid
I love LEDs. Really, I do! They offer so many possibilities for new ways to light our world with less negative environmental impact. And besides, they’re cool! What I can’t stomach is the continuing hype. Frustration with LED hype is old news for lighting designers and for readers of this blog, but I thought... »
“Less Or Else” is Becoming a Bore
Architectural lighting is poised for a dramatic transition into innovative new applications and approaches to sustainability. To summarize this transition, let’s look at architectural history through the lens of Mies van der Rohe’s famous quip “less is more”: More is more: classical architecture in an age with limited technical and material capability. Less is more: modern... »
Solar Decathlon: Not So Sunny, But Full of Energy!
I was fortunate to be able to spend the weekend visiting the Solar Decathlon houses on the Mall in Washington, D.C. (see the Solar Decathlon website and Amber’s last blog article “Curious” About Sustainable Design?). Miserable weather meant that the houses weren’t generating much electricity, but the energy produced by the students attracted many people... »
Photo of the Month: October 2009
It’s All Relative Brightness, color, and contrast all play a role in any visual composition. This is especially true of lighted nighttime environments; the interplay of these three characteristics determines the quality and character of the lighted environment. In the foreground of this image, on the right-hand side, is a brightly lighted mock-up of what is... »
“Curious” About Sustainable Design?
A local group of students from the Boston Architectural College and Tufts University are more than just curious. These students have combined creative efforts, engineering skills, and a shared passion to jump-start a wave of curiosity in others; Team Boston was formed to propose, design, and build an actual solar-powered model home. The Curio... »
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... »
Lite-Brite ™
Remember when you would assemble those little translucent pegs in any configuration possible to create a luminous image of your wildest imagination? There were no limits to how the pieces could be arranged within the board boundary; each glowing pixel of plastic contributed to the overall illumination from an assembled light source. Some manufacturers are... »
