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| Office tower lobby uses GE lighting to greet visitors  The lobby for a new mid-rise office tower in the North of Massachusetts Avenue district of Washington, DC, was collaboratively developed to exploit light presented as a series of luminous boxes within a glassy modernist field. A finalist of the GE Edison Award competition, lighting designers of George Sexton Associates used GE lighting in the lobby of the office tower. The lobby's presence at the corner of the building presents itself as an expression of luminous glow, drawing visitors through an utterly transparent enclosure. A composition of gently lighted benches, grazed with in-grade linear LED uplights, leads to the entrance."The lighting designers were looking for something new and exciting to bring to the building," says Mary Beth Gotti, manager of the GE Lighting & Electrical Institute. "The highly controlled lighting composition showcases the lobby and establishes the nighttime identity of this new office building in a dramatic fashion." The chiseled glass edifice welcomes visitors into a transparent, double-height lobby space. The lobby is largely clad in back-painted etched glass with white terrazzo flooring and painted gypsum ceilings. The glass walls, etched with a subtle pattern of gradient diamonds, are grazed with GE ConstantColor CMH PAR20 3000 K ceramic metal halide lamps in linear cove strip systems. Lightboxes and the luminous reception desk, backlighted with dimmable GE T5 Starcoat Ecolux 3500 K fluorescent lamps, orient visitors and differentiate the interior spaces. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |