Exemplary lighting design projects honoured at 41st IALD Awards event

Hundreds of professionals from all facets of the lighting design industry recently gathered in San Diego, California, to recognise the 2024 IALD International Lighting Design Awards winners.

28 projects from ten countries were recognised and applauded for demonstrating exceptional lighting design and contributing to the professional community.

IALD Awards Co-Chairs Yah Li Toh, IALD, CLD, and Uno Lai, IALD, CLD, enthusiastically hosted the evening’s celebration. “Year over year, the calibre of winning projects speaks to the passion – and talent – of lighting designers everywhere,” Yah Li said. “We can only imagine where the profession may evolve in years to come.”

The project with the highest score received an IALD Award of Excellence and the highest honour of the ceremony, the IALD Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design. This accolade was given to the New York, United States project ‘Lightfall’, a collaborative lighting design by the firms Loisos + Ubbelodhe and Lumen Architecture.

Elated representatives of the winning teams, including firm principals George Loisos and Susan Ubbelohde, joined the Awards Co-Chairs and IALD president Andrea Hartranft, FIALD, on stage to accept the Radiance trophy.

The following projects received the 2024 IALD Awards of Excellence:

• Battersea Power Station, London, United Kingdom, with lighting design by Speirs Major Light Architecture
• Gallo Azul Tailor Shop, México City, México, with lighting design by Lighteam Gustavo Avilés S.C.
• Lightfall, New York, NY, United States, with lighting design by Loisos + Ubbelodhe and Lumen Architecture
• Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), New York, NY, United States, with lighting design by Tillotson Design Associates

The following projects earned the 2024 IALD Awards of Merit:

• Anyuan Bridge Lighting, Shanghai, China, with lighting design by RDesign International Lighting
• Casals Forum, Music Quarter, Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse, Germany, with lighting design by Licht Kunst Licht AG
• The Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, with lighting design by Reed Burkett Lighting Design
• Chicago O’Hare International Airport Terminal 5, Chicago, IL, United States, with lighting design by HOK & Schuler Shook
• The Cross of Heroes, Vyshgorod, Ukraine, with lighting design by Expolight
• The Dark Line, Sandiaoling-Mudan, Taiwan, with lighting design by Artec Studio
• Eslöv Square, Eslöv, Sweden, with lighting design by Light Bureau
• Korean War Veterans’ Memorial, Washington D.C., United States, with lighting design by Flux Studio
• The Luminarium, Omaha, NE, United States, with lighting design by HDR
• Lungshan Temple Lighting Renovation, Taipei City, Taiwan, with lighting design by Originator Lighting Design Consultants, Inc.
• Matsu Beigan Power Plant, Beigan, Matsu, Taiwan, with lighting design by YI.ng Lighting Design Consultants
• MUFG Park + Library, Yagisawa, Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan, with lighting design by Lumimedia Lab Inc.
• Red Box Cinema, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, with lighting design by Brandston Partnership Inc.
• Safeco Plaza, Seattle, WA, United States, with lighting design by Fisher Marantz Stone
• Saint Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, PA, United States, with lighting design by BEAM, Ltd.
• Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church & National Shrine, New York, NY, United States, with lighting design by DLR Group
• Sanxingdui Museum New Hall, Guanghan, Sichuan, China, with lighting design by Puri Lighting Design
• SIMOSE Art Museum, Harumi, Otake, Hiroshima, Japan, with lighting design by Lumimedia Lab Inc.
• SKP Chengdu, Chengdu, China, with lighting design by Speirs Major Light Architecture
• Sky Light Gallery, Mentougou District, Beijing, China, with lighting design by School of Architecture, Tsinghua University & One Lighting Associates (Beijing)
• Touro University Flagship Campus Lobby at 3 Times Square, New York, NY, United States, with lighting design by Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design
• Yanzi Academy, Shanghai, China, with lighting design by Guangzhou Yuanse Lighting Design Co., Ltd.
• YOYOGI SANGUBASHI TERRACE, Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, with lighting design by Sirius Lighting Office Inc.

The following project was granted a 2024 IALD Special Citation for Integration of Light into the Architectural Fabric:

• Grace PARTY K Flagship Store, Kunming, Yunnan, China, with lighting design by Hong Kong Fei Shang Entertainment Design Ltd.

Awards Co-chair Uno Lai spoke highly of the variety of projects honoured for 2024: “The domain-based rubric used by our judges allowed them to score each entry on its demonstration of aesthetic and technical excellence. It results in an array of winners that show how exceptional lighting transcends the built space.”

The collected audience joined the IALD in thanking the 2024 IALD Awards panel of seven volunteer judges. Five professional lighting designers serve on this year’s panel: Maria Dautant, Assoc. IALD; Fang Fang, IALD; Clementine Fletcher-Smith, IALD; Chayot Kiranantawat, Assoc. IALD, CLD; Andreas Schulz, FIALD. The esteemed panel also includes interior designer Masako Fukuoka and architect David Greenbaum.

Now in its 41st year, the IALD International Lighting Design Awards is the longest-running program recognising architectural lighting design excellence. Receiving an IALD award is universally heralded as the top honour in the lighting design industry. Since its inception in 1983, the IALD International Lighting Design Awards has honoured lighting design that reaches new heights, moves beyond the ordinary, and represents excellence in aesthetic and technical design achievement.