Focus Lighting Inc. | Architectural Lighting Design

Wukesong, Beijing Arena

focus2 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:06:23 +0000

As a part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Focus Lighting has developed a concept for the Wukesong Arena inspired by a significant symbol in Chinese culture, the lotus flower. Surrounded by a pool, vertical ribbons of undulating, perforated metal envelop the large glass structure, extending from the top of the building, to below the surface of the water. Each ribbon is lit along its entire length with color changing LEDs, creating a delicate, shimmering layer of color, upon which the entire building appears to float.

New York Times

focus2 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:26:02 +0000

New York Times LED Feature.pdf

The Social House at Treasure Island

focus2 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:59 +0000

The interior design for Social House, the popular Las Vegas sushi restaurant was inspired by an ancient Japanese fishing village. Focus Lighting used light to accentuate texture, enhance color, and focus the patrons’ attention in it’s many unique spaces.Although lighting is a critical element to this design, it was decided early on that lighting fixtures should be hidden from view as much as possible. A great deal of coordination with the design architect, AvroKO, allowed for the tight integration of lighting fixtures into the interior design. This ensured patrons would see the beauty of the restaurant’s architecture, not the fixtures that permit them to see it.

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts

focus2 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:06:47 +0000

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is one of the Midwest’s premier theater venues. To make the building more iconic, a concept was developed that revolved around bathing the exterior facade is washes of colored light. This light shifts in color and pattern creating a work of kinetic art on the building. The strong building designed by architect Harry Weiss and the sensitive colors that are found within local artist Georgia O’Keefe’s worked, inspired the designs that paint the building with light. The art of performance that fills the inside of the Marcus Center is mirrored in creativity on the outside of the building.

Royalton Hotel Lobby

focuslighting — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:32:29 +0000

Focus Lighting, together with Roman and Williams Design undertook the challenge of revitalizing and redesigning New York’s original boutique hotel: The Royalton. Bold design gestures create spaces as memorable and dramatic as the original design by Philip Starck. Sensuously dark lounges, luxurious materials and highly textured sculptural elements surround and entice guests to relax and absorb the rich visual environment before their eyes.

Two teakwood beaded screens flank the main entry, dramatically uplit to highlight their geometric shapes and arrangement. The textured steel façade of the fireplace is accented by light to emphasize its dimensionality and patina. The aluminum sculptural screen in the lounge, lit by accents in the ceiling, is counterpointed by a blue, leather stitched wall behind the screen, lit by hidden fixtures from below, providing a complex contrast in visual and tactile composition. Throughout the lobby, hand-blown glass pendants float in space, seeming to bathe patrons with their luminous glow while carefully concealed lighting components actually achieve this effect.

The Royalton’s signature restaurant, Brasserie 44 pays homage to Starck’s original nautically inspired lobby by using corded rope to create sculptural woven arches between warm toned wood and brass seating banquettes, reminiscent of the fine woodwork found on luxury yachts and sailboats. Hidden lighting elements behind the banquettes gently graze up the rosewood walls, illuminating dining patrons with a flattering light, and creating visual depth between the furniture and the surrounding architecture. Fixtures within the banquettes light up the rope elements anchoring them in pools of lights while the rope’s subtle texture is highlighted.

With this rebirth the Royalton continues to set the standard for boutique hospitality and continues its legacy as a cultural icon.

Nobu - New York

focus2 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:40:20 +0000

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Color Kinetics Corporate Headquarters

focuslighting — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:06:23 +0000

The Challenge was to integrate art, light and architecture into a multi-use corporate headquarters, showroom and engineering workplace. Using only LED’s, two 30′ long entry portals celebrate the transition from the main lobby into the engineering offices created with controllable LED back lighting of resin embedded with fiber optics. The portal becomes an immersive environment of color and light as the customer passes through it.An office with no ceiling would provide a clear view to the changing sky, in this situation our sky is a color changing rear illuminated ceiling that wraps behind the reception desk and the elevator lobby feature wall and simulates the movement of clouds. A “Video Wall-Wash” illuminates the lobby side walls showing the clients completed projects, all lobby walls and portals are delineated by an illuminated reveal.The 20″ long linear color changing uplighting on 28″ centers over each engineering station creates a repetitive architectural “color beam” in the patrons long view and a user controllable color changing environment for the worker. The showroom - meeting room space features movable displays accented with colorful perimeters. Each display shows how to best use another of the client lighting products. The showroom is surrounded in backlit sheers to provide a clean colorful background to set off the products. The project was designed, computer modeled and mocked up to be 80% illuminated with LED’s for their long life and high efficiency. Currently fluorescent are used for some task lighting but will be replaced by LED’s shortly.

Dos Caminos

focus2 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:05:45 +0000

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New Meadowlands Stadium

focus2 — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:18:13 +0000

At the New Meadowlands Stadium, Focus Lighting is helping to design lighting for the new home of both the New York Giants and the New York Jets. The design is required to provide visual unification for the stadium itself, while also creating a clear presence for both NFL teams as well as several corporate sponsors.

Plans include lighting that highlights the repeating elements that define the architecture of the stadium and lights that can change from Giants Blue to Jets Green at the main entries.

Atlantis Dubai - The Palm

focus2 — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:05:12 +0000

Atlantis, The Palm is the crown jewel of The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. Perched on the apogee of the breakwater crescent surrounding the development, the grand view along the trunk of The Palm leads visitors directly to its doorstep. Focus Lighting emphasized the brilliant visibility of Atlantis from the mainland by accentuating the large vertical architectural elements with sweeping strokes of light, and spotlighting the jewel atop the main lobby and the bridge suite. Great care was also taken to address the separate needs of hotel patrons and of the complex’s many recreational features, including the aquatic features of the Dig, a themed environment with a shark tank and over 20 aquariums.