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PROJECT | Color Kinetics Corporate Headquarters and Showroom, Burlington, Massachusetts DESIGN TEAM | Focus Lighting, New York City (lighting designer] PHOTOGRAPHER | Focus Lighting, New York City PROJECT SIZE | 42,000 square feet WAHS PER SQUARE FOOT | 1.8 MANUFACTURER | Color Kinetics
CHALLENGE No matter how familiar a lighting designer might be with light-emitting diode (LED) technology, it is no easy task to outfit 42,000 square feet of space with LEDs as the main illumination source, particularly when ongoing advancements are a fundamental component of employing this lighting technology. But that was the task before lighting designer Paul Gregory, principal of New York City-based Focus Lighting, and his team when charged with creating a compelling space for one of the major companies on the LED scene-Color Kinetics, now Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions since its acquisition in August 2007 To create a distinctive yet unifying space across two different floors of a nondescript suburban office park building, Gregory says the design team "needed to think outside the box to solve the problems" that arose with using LEDs as the main light source for this project.
SOLUTION Illuminating...