In Focus Lighting’s work, color plays a supporting role, enlisted in the service of a wider narrative.
The designers at Focus Lighting will tell you they don’t think in terms of color, but a quick glance at their portfolio would seem to undercut this claim. Since its founding 32 years ago, the studio has projected color onto projects of all types and scales, from the Times Square Ball to the space shuttle Enterprise. Its most recent idea proposes bathing the Riverside Drive viaduct, a towering railroadturned-roadway in West Harlem, New York City, in a rainbow of hues.
What, then, accounts for this dissonance between word and act? “In today’s age with LED fixtures, it’s so easy just to stick a color-changing fixture on a building,” explains firm partner and principal designer Brett Andersen. “We’re hunting for inspiration, for a reason to paint a piece of architecture with color—we really don’t think about light as colored or white.”
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No New Buildings
The energy already embodied in the built environment is a precious unnatural resource. It’s time to start treating it like one.
The Circular Office
Major manufacturers are exploring every avenue to close the loop on workplace furniture.
Signs of Life
Designers, curators, and entrepreneurs are scrambling to make sense of motherhood in a culture that’s often hostile to it.
Interspecies Ethic
In probing the relationship between humans and nature, two major exhibitions question the very foundations of design practice.
Building on Brand
The Bauhaus turned 100 this year, and a crop of museum buildings sprang up for the celebration.
Building for Tomorrow, Today
Radical change in the building industry is desperately needed. And it cannot happen without the building trades.
Strength from Within
Maggie’s Centres, the service-focused cancer support network, eschews clinical design to arm patients in their fight for life.
Next-Level Living
The availability of attractive, hospitality-grade products on the market means everyday consumers can live the high life at home.
Mi Casa, Su Casa
Casa Perfect creates a memorable shopping experience in lavish private homes.
Enter The Culinarium
AvroKO imagines the future of residential amenities—where convenience, comfort, and sustainability meet.
