The lighting designs for Manuka Oval, Kinghorn Cancer Centre and 8 Chifley were all commended by The IES Lighting Society – New South Wales Chapter on Friday, 22 November 2013 at The Sydney Convention Centre.
“We are delighted with this year’s lighting awards, and are proud to have worked alongside some of the best design teams in the country to deliver great results for our clients. The collection of projects we have been recognised for continues to demonstrate our focus of blending design passion with technical excellence.
Tim Carr, Australasian Lighting Leader, Arup
Manuka Oval is a 13,550 capacity stadium located in Canberra. The sport lighting – designed by Arup, Cox Architecture, and Abacus Lighting – aspired to elevate day-to-day structures into elegant, slender, distinctive forms creating the effect of ‘embracing’ the Oval.
The installation was recently recognised by receiving an Urban Design award at the AIA ACT Chapter Architecture Awards and has been declared by key stakeholders as possibly the best in the country.
The lighting for the Green Star rated 8 Chifley accentuates the architectural structural components, unifying each of the open spaces and fire stairs whilst preventing light spill. The building uses red light on the red exoskeleton of the sway frames, with the feature fire stair using a simplistic twin lamp linear solution switching to white light in the event of a fire.
To complement the unique office ‘villages’, each of the exposed concreted slabs and roof feature were illuminated with integrated liner LED luminaires, whilst metal halide downlights are suspended at high level to illuminate the ground floor glass lobby box.
The Kinghorn Cancer Centre atrium welcomes the visitor with a warm glow created by various carefully concealed light sources. Various lighting technologies were utilised to meet the demands of each lighting solution and the result is a low maintenance scheme where the architecture becomes the light source.
Approximately 170 people attended the awards ceremony, which recognised the best lighting design and luminaire design in NSW and ACT.