Visual Terrain Brings Home Multiple Lumen West Awards!

Visual Terrain at Lumen West Awards

In an exciting evening at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, Visual Terrain was honored with multiple Lumen West Awards from the Los Angeles Section of the Illumination Engineering Society.

The Los Angeles Section awards included five awards of merit and one award of excellence. Additionally, four projects received Society Awards of Merit at the national level:

Akin Gump Los Angeles – Award of Merit, Society Award
Battle For Texas: The Experience – Society Award
Jameson Distillery Bow St – Bar and Retail – Award of Merit, Society Award
Jameson Distillery Bow St – Tasting and Tour – Award of Excellence
Kenneth Hahn Visitor Center, Los Angeles – Award of Merit
NFL Hall of Fame – A Game for Life – Award of Merit
Universal’s Volcano Bay – Award of Merit, Society Award

Visual Terrain wishes to thank our generous sponsors, who made it possible for our entire team to attend the Lumen West Awards:

Above group photo credit: Erin Powell

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Akin Gump

Category: Interior
Location: Los Angeles, California
Designed by: Lisa Passamonte Green, Steven Young, and Leigh Brown of Visual Terrain

Description: Clean, restrained lighting reinforces a sense of order in this multi-level law office. Rectangles and lines morph into curves, circles, and projected rays to encourage creativity and flexibility.

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Jameson Distillery Bow St. – Bar and Retail

Category: Interior
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Designed by: Lisa Passamonte Green, Kate Furst, and Leigh Brown of Visual Terrain

Description: Carefully aimed and programmed lighting pull focus to the 19th-century distillery’s architecture and feature bar bottle displays, honoring the rich history of the building and the Jameson brand.

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Jameson Distillery Bow St. – Tasting and Tour

Category: Interior
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Designed by: Lisa Passamonte Green, Kate Furst and Leigh Brown of Visual Terrain, with Joost Wijgers of Light-H-Art

Description: Light serves several critical functions on the Jameson Bow Street renovation project: it illuminates an historic whiskey distillery building, tells the story of the brand, highlights the brand’s signature bottle AND leads guests on an unforgettable tasting tour through the iconic Jameson Distillery Bow Street. Warm track lighting, vibrant projections, color changing accents, and miniature spotlights were employed throughout. Guests begin the tour with the brand’s timeline displayed on the building’s historic brick walls, are educated on Jameson’s unique distilling process, and conclude the tour in the tasting room. A table in the tasting room glows with illuminated letters, spelling words that describe the whiskey, like smooth and nutty. The famous bottle sits in a place of honor, uplit at the center of the table with the brand’s crest glowing overhead.

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Kenneth Hahn Visitor Center

Category: Interior
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Designed by: Lisa Passamonte Green and Kate Furst of Visual Terrain

Description: Designing around existing architectural details while the building was already under construction, the design injects personality into the meeting rooms and historical displays, completing final programming less than 4 months after the project’s first lighting discussions.

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NFL Hall of Fame – A Game for Life

Category: Interior
Location: Canton, Ohio, USA
Designed by: Lisa Passamonte Green, Steven Young of Visual Terrain, and John Jenkinson of Bandit Lites

Description: For this exhibit celebrating the rich history of professional football, lighting transports guests from a realistic locker room into a journey through an otherworldly memoryscape of NFL’s greatest moments.

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Universal’s Volcano Bay

Category: Outdoor
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Designed by: Lisa Passamonte Green, Michael Mahlum, Steven Young, Kate Furst, Ken Daniel, Leigh Brown, Jonathan Lebovic, Wendy Thomas, Mallory Paddock, and Jeff De Lamotte of Visual Terrain

Description: Universal’s Volcano Bay immerses guests in a vibrant blend of Polynesian cultures. Throughout the water park, lighting renders an environment that is warm, playful, and – above all – safe. At the center of the park, a large volcano’s majestic waterfall periodically erupts in angry bursts of lava, then transforms back to cool, calm, watery blues.

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