Lighting Archives - Metropolis

LEDs Have Given Rise to More Exciting Lighting Designs than Ever, But Is There a Carbon Cost?

Avinash Rajagopal,

The April issue of Metropolis looks at the past, present, and future of lighting, while digging into the sustainability of LED technology.

To Illuminate Raleigh's Museum Park, Less is More

Timothy A. Schuler,

At the North Carolina Museum of Art's popular park, careful changes in color temperature follow the progression of outdoor spaces.

At Toronto’s Bentway, Lighting Is a Base Layer for Artistic Intervention

Timothy A. Schuler,

PUBLIC WORK and Tillett Lighting Design Associates conceived the strategy with hyper-flexibility in mind.

Lighting For Fun: This Public Park in Dallas Makes the Most of the Night

Timothy A. Schuler,

SWA Group and Oldner Lighting designed Pacific Park Plaza so that the lighting scheme responded to all-day conditions.

Lean In: This Lamp Brings an Indoor Staple Outside

Leilah Stone, ,

As part of Landscape Forms' Motive collection, designer Justin Champaign has created an al-fresco version of the floor lamp.

9 Interiors From Around the World That Stand Out Because of Lighting

Leilah Stone, Samuel Medina, ,

From Wuhan, China, to Los Angeles, Metropolis highlights three lighting strategies that bring work, retail, and hospitality spaces to life.

This Hollywood Coworking Space Feels Like a Giant Terrarium

Samuel Medina,

Spanish firm SelgasCano turned to botanical and zoological inspirations to light Second Home's Los Angeles outpost—the final instalment in our global survey of lighting design.

Lighting Adds to the Graphic Quality of New York's Poster House

Samuel Medina,

At the city's newest museum—next in our series on lighting schemes around the world—LTL Architects and Lumen Architecture use LEDs to heighten the atmosphere of a sensitive adaptive reuse project.

The Task at Hand: 100 Years of the Adjustable Desk Lamp

Akiva Blander,

A technological breakthrough and a little-acknowledged bellwether of Modernism, the task lamp finally gets its due.

The Lighting at this Publisher's HQ Was Designed for Easy Reading

Leilah Stone,

Continuing our series on lighting strategies around the world, we look at how Berlin firm Kinzo's dramatic scheme for the offices of Suhrkamp Verlag serves an important purpose.

This Pink Concrete Boutique by David Adjaye Was a Headache to Light

Samuel Medina,

The Los Angeles fashion outlet The Webster—the fourth installment in our series on lighting design—is a masterclass in dealing with color temperature.

In Lighting Wells Fargo's Offices, Kugler Ning Foregrounds Natural Rhythms

Leilah Stone,

At the LEED Gold–certified workplace in Hudson Yards, part of our global lighting portfolio, a scripted time-clock schedule aligns with the body’s 24-hour internal clock.

A Pavilion Where Lighting Mimics Branches, Leaves—and Chipmunks

Leilah Stone,

For this structure in a Dutch national park—the next installment in our lighting portfolio—designers used projections that appear to float on the breeze.

11 Objects that Showcase the Possibilities of Ceramics

Leilah Stone,

The versatile and sustainable qualities of fired clay are on display in these innovative designs.

Lighting's Dark Secret: Embodied Carbon in the LED Industry

Audrey Gray,

Energy-efficient LEDs have a fat carbon footprint. The Lighting industry is beginning to grapple with the amount of embodied carbon in its materials.

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Warm Light and Low-Glare Create a Cozy Environment at this Dallas Eatery

Leilah Stone,

The second of nine case studies on lighting strategies across global interiors, Georgie, a restaurant and butcher shop in Dallas, reimagines the American steakhouse.

At This Bookstore in Wuhan, China, Light Represents Knowledge and Emotion

Leilah Stone,

The first of nine case studies on lighting strategies across global interiors, the Hubei Foreign Language Bookstore considers light's symbolic nature.