The 2013 GE Edison Award was presented to Robert Shook, Maureen Mahr, Jennifer Curtis and Kimberley Corbett-Oates of Schuler Shook (Chicago, Illinois, US) for lighting City Performance Hall in Dallas, Texas (US). A personalised Steuben crystal award for the winner of this 31st annual lighting design competition was presented by GE Lighting on 2 June 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada (US).
City Performance Hall, a showcase for Dallas’ mid-sized arts’ companies, glows from within and provides an inspiring entry to the renowned Dallas Arts District. Designed before light-emitting diodes (LEDs) became truly viable as general lighting solutions, the project features GE 39-watt (W) ConstantColor ceramic metal halide (CMHO lamps for interior down lights and wall wash fixtures in the lobby and exterior soffit (i.e., material forming the ceiling).
The exterior of the City Performance Hall in Dallas provides an inspiring entry to the renowned Dallas Arts District with GE Lighting products. (Photo credit: Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.)
The multilevel main lobby is positioned close to the public sidewalk. Through the transparent curtain wall façade, the lobby’s side walls, ceiling and lighting sweep away the boundary between interior and exterior. The rear wall is illuminated by a combination of border strip lights and recessed lens wall washers with 39W CMH PAR30 narrow flood lamps. Ceiling fixtures are strategically zoned by row and function to provide greater flexibility for control despite having a non-dimmable source. Throughout the multilevel lobby, coves lit with GE 54W T5 3000°K fluorescent lamps are integrated into lower ceilings to provide an indirect source of lighting. A similar detail using the same lamps in dimmable fixtures is repeated under the balcony in the performance space.
The interior of the City Performance Hall in Dallas using GE Lighting products. (Photo credit: Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.)
In the 750-seat proscenium theater, general lighting is provided by dimmable GE 500W halogen down lights, accessible from the catwalks above. Several LED colour-changing features allow user groups to dramatically change the dynamic of the space, including red-green-blue (RGB) floodlights that light the concrete ceiling above the floating wood-panel reflectors. The balcony floats away from the board-formed concrete walls, providing a location to conceal up and down border strip lights lamped with GE 50W halogen infrared (HIR) narrow flood lamps that graze the highly textured surfaces. In lieu of a traditional fabric stage curtain, an low-resolution LED matrix provides a contemporary canvas for commissioned video art.
A prestigious panel of five judges selected this year’s winning entry for its superiority in the following categories: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state-of-the-art lighting products and techniques; appropriate colour, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness; and cost effectiveness.
Judges for the 31st annual competition were:
• Domingo Gonzalez, IES, IALD, AIA, LC, Domingo Gonzalez Associates, New York, New York, US
• Professor Hai Luoxi, Professor, College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
• Charles “Chip” Israel, FIALD, MIES, LEED AP, Lighting Design Alliance, Long Beach, California
• Arq. José Ramón Tagle Del Cueto, LEED AP, CxA, GCxP, AKF Group, Coyoacán, México
• Robert Young, LC, GE Lighting, Westchester, Illinois
The winning project was one of three Awards of Excellence finalists. The other Awards of Excellence winners were:
• Global Investment Firm (San Francisco, California) designed by BANKS|RAMOS Architectural Lighting Design (San Francisco).
• Herscher Hall at Skirball Cultural Center (Los Angeles, California) designed by Lam Partners (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Also presented at the GE Edison Awards ceremony were five Awards of Merit, six Awards for Environmental Design, one Award for Residential Design and three Awards of Special Citation. See GE Lighting to view all the award winners of the 2013 GE Edison Awards in more detail and to find information related to the 2014 GE Edison Award call for entries.
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