January 30, 2015
Congratulations to RAPT for winning Interior Design’s Best of Year Award for the Large Tech Office Category! It was a pleasure working with them on the tech-giant’s newest Orange County location, where each light fixture is individually controllable and also tracks its own usage data, which together create a considerable amount of information across the 91,000 sqft office. Connecting the different floors of the office is a a steel staircase wrapped in perforated acrylic, which catches the light of RGB LED’s running the entire length of the vertical centerpiece. The Google engineers themselves wrote a program based on the Arduino platform to change the LED’s colors as a real-time response to the amount of traffic along the staircase.
Now, shifting our focus to the realm of interior design in the online space, enthusiasts seeking a blend of sophistication and style can explore an array of options at our curated store. From contemporary lighting solutions to tasteful decor, our collection seamlessly incorporates elements like copper & tweed furniture, bringing warmth and elegance to any space. Whether you’re looking to enhance your home office or revamp your living area, our carefully curated selection ensures that your surroundings reflect the same level of ingenuity and creativity witnessed in RAPT’s award-winning design. Embrace the allure of copper & tweed as you embark on a journey to redefine your living spaces with the same passion and innovation that garnered RAPT its well-deserved accolades in the tech office design realm.
October 10, 2014
We’re happy and honored to announce that after winning three awards at IES Lumen West (Los Angeles Section), a number of our projects have won at the IES Illumination National Level as well:
Awards of Merit for AKA Beverly Hills (Interior and Exterior)
Award of Merit for AT&T Store of the Future Prototype
Award of Merit for Conill
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September 23, 2014
We’re proud to announce that our very own designer Jane You has won an IALD scholarship as an Emerging Lighting Design Professional to attend the IALD Enlighten Americas 2014 conference in San Diego this October. She will be sponsored by one of many lighting manufacturers who, as members of the Lighting Industry Resource Council, have pledged to “financially support designers within their first five years of on-the-job practice to attend [the conference]” as part of the Emerging Lighting Designers Initiative, which makes it possible for lighting design practices to send their junior staff to continuing education and professional training conferences. Congratulations to Jane, and many thanks to the LIRC for supporting our emerging designers!
July 8, 2014
Congratulations to the design team for CRL Nantong’s World Architecture News Award in the Unbuilt Commercial category! We are proud to be partners with MulvannyG2 on this large-scale project.
According to the WAN editorial statement, “The winning scheme in Nantong incorporates retail, office space and entertainment facilities (including an ice skating rink and a cinema), set over narrow but lengthy 500m-long site, encompassing nearly 300,000 sq m of commercial space. It was highlighted by the jury that the scheme had taken note of the surrounding landscape well in that ‘there’s an intelligent analysis of the city in the detailing’.”
June 25, 2014
We are excited to announce that we recently won the following at the IES Lumen West Awards:
Award of Excellence for Conill
Award of Merit for AT&T Prototype
Award of Merit for YouTube Amphitheatre
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June 6, 2014
Oculus becomes one of the select few lighting designers on the West Coast to win a prestigious IALD award at the 31st annual International Lighting Design Awards. Out of over 200 entries from 10 countries, AKA Beverly Hills was selected as one of five Award of Merit winners for the the way “[it] demonstrates the power of light to transform architectural space,” according to one IALD judge.
We are thrilled at the honor, and hope to continue pushing the envelope in design and technology on our projects. Many thanks to our collaborators, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Asfour Guzy Architects and Pamela Burton & Company Landscape Lighting. And of course, the AKA team, lead by Larry Korman.
Read the IALD Press Release (pdf download).
March 25, 2014
Our project, Pirch Glendale has been selected as the A.R.E. Design Awards 2014 Grand Prize winner in the category of Hardline Specialty Store (7,501-25,000 square feet). The project was described as “smart, modern and fresh, from the refined elegance of ceiling elements and linear trough lighting to a white porcelain main floor… ” While we designed the lighting, the overall design was by FITCH, and this is the second top prize for Pirch, which won First Place in a similar category in the Retail Store of the Year competition.
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March 5, 2014
AKA Beverly Hills received an honorary mention in Interior Design’s “Best of Year” issue, and our lighting design was noted as its “standout” quality: “Perforations in the concrete facade are echoed in the lobby by the constellation of LED-lit oculi hovering over the oak floor.”
February 15, 2014
We are excited to announce that four of our retail projects from the past year have won five first place awards and one honorable mention in Chain Store Age’s 32nd annual Retail Store of the Year design competition.
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