The Lighting Quotient - makers of elliptipar and tambient
May 2010

This is a special installment of news from The Lighting Quotient´s Carl Leuck. Carl works in the Customs department and regularly interacts with our reps, customers, architects and lighting designers to help resolve issues and challenges they face on projects. We´d like to share some of those stories with you. These examples demonstrate both small and large custom applications, but the result is the same. If you have a problem, we can find the answer.

To learn more about our custom applications, contact: cleuck@TheLightingQuotient.com.

Masonic Temple Murals, San Francisco, CA

Renowned artist Emile Norman crafted the mosaic window that dominates the Temple´s auditorium entrance foyer. This historic window is 38´ tall and 48´ wide. It was fabricated in the endomosaic process incorporating thousands of bits of metal, pieces of various fabrics, foliage, shells and sealife plus 180 colors of stained glass mounted on acrylic sheets. Lighting the project demonstrates a custom mounting assembly to back light a one-of-a-kind work of art.

The Custom Lighting Solution ».

99th Street Transit Center, Vancouver, B.C.

This large Park-and-Ride facility utilizes 122 units with a modified perforated visor to create the look of torches atop the tapered monolithic columns. When lit, the wing-like roof structures can be seen easily from the Interstate the station serves.

The Custom Lighting Solution ».

Olympic Sculpture Park, PACCAR Pavilion, Seattle, WA

Leaf Architecture´s Pavilion is the nighttime focal point of the sprawling waterside Sculpture Park designed by Weiss/Manfredi. A custom cantilever, designed to mount on vertical structural columns located around the building´s internal perimeter, minimizes visual clutter and provides indirect light for both the exterior perimeter and exterior accents.

The Custom Lighting Solution ».