GLOW May 16, 2012

Light Boston has teamed with SHIFTBoston to sponsor GLOW, a competition for innovative lighting concepts for Copley Square, Boston's premier public space. Responses from over 30 international designers, submitted in early 2012, were evaluated by a jury of notable designers including Nader Tehrani, Professor and Head of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and Paul Zaferiou of LAM Partners, a Boston firm with special expertise in lighting design. The lighting designers, architects, landscape architects and designers who submitted concepts were asked to show their visions of how Copley Square would be lilghted at night.

On Wednesday May 16 at 5:30-7:30 the designs will be shown to the public at the Boston Society of Architects SPACE at 290 Congress Street. Mr. Tehrani and Mr. Zaferiou will be on hand to talk about their criteria for selecting a group of finalists whose designs will then be further evaluated for feasibility with assistance from area lighting manufacturers. A $1,000 prize will be awarded in the summer to the winner. The public is invited to attend and participate in this discussion. For more information and to RSVP send an email to lightboston@lightboston.org

SHIFTBoston is a group organized to generate ideas for innovation in all matters environmental. The crieria for the ideas competition can be accessed at www.SHIFTBoston.org.

Quebec City Lights Up The Night
As part of the preparations for the 400th, the provincial Commission de la capitale nationale du Quebec proposed a new light plan, or Plan luminere, for Quebec City. The goal was to install new showcase lighting on as many as 63 properties by 2008. After a four-year pause, the second phase of the new showcase night lighting is to be unveiled in 2012. Gazette article.

MIT's FAST LIGHT May 2011

The culminating event of the FAST Festival shimmered on the waterfront of MIT’s campus. A night of kinetic illumination kicked off with the launch of Otto Piene’s Sky Event, when a group of students and alumni flew a large-scale, brightly lit star over Killian Court. From dusk until dark, FAST Light glowed along the Charles River waterfront and on MIT’s campus with projects created by MIT students and faculty.

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Historic Boston March 2011
HBI will soon install new exterior lighting on three prominent historic buildings in Dorchester's Fields Corner in order to draw attention to their well-preserved facades and enhance night time safety in the business district. The buildings are The Lenane Building built in 1906, the former Municipal Building built in 1875, and the former Dorchester Theatre built in 1915. To read more, click here.

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