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The 8th LIT Lighting Design Awards announced the winners, showcasing designs that redefine new trends and offer a fascinating glimpse into the future of lighting innovation.

LIT Design Awards launches yearly a competition for lighting design
The LIT Lighting Design Awards highlights outstanding achievements in lighting products, architectural lighting, and entertainment lighting. This program exemplifies innovation, diversity, and excellence, celebrating the evolution of lighting design in various forms and inspiring future trends and creative excellence worldwide.
Presentation of the award winners here > PDF  → Read more

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The spiritual qualities of daylight

Abstract, mostly white forms with only a minimum of visible details and a masterful lighting design – Alberto Campo Baeza has become internationally renowned for this architecture. This year, the Spanish architect was honoured with the Daylight Award in Denmark for his sensitive use of daylight.

Eliminating materiality to maximise the impact and expressivity of natural white daylight. → Read more

Termin: Day Light Award 2024 | May 2024

Life World

Olafur Eliasson’s concepts repeatedly address the question of how we deal with the world. Now he is showing blurred abstractions on huge screens. Eliasson means that this blurred fuzziness is absolutely precise, because as an abstraction it is a truthful representation of the present time and connects us with our feelings. → Read more

Termin: 1 October — 31 December 2024

Adresse: London, UK | Seoul, Korea | Berlin, Germany | New York, | US Online, WeTransfer

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A light installation by artist and musician Carsten Nicolai will be on display in the planned new entrance building of the Office of the Federal President in Berlin. 
The aim of the art-in-architecture competition was to find a suitable work of art or artistic intervention for the air space of the new entrance building below the five metre high ceiling.  → Read more

Termin: under construction / permanent installation | ready in 2025

Adresse: Office of the Federal President Berlin / Germany

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A monumental experience beneath the Dôme des Invalides

Moment Factory developed a fully immersive light environment for the Dôme des Invalides – one of the most important sites of French cultural heritage – on a projection surface of 3,500 square metres, while preserving the architectural and historical integrity of the site.

Interview with Moment Factory about Aura Invalides

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Termin: 22.08.2023  - 31.12.2025

Adresse: Dôme des Invalides in Paris

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Commemoration of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Düsseldorf

The Great Synagogue on Kasernenstraße in Düsseldorf was first desecrated and then set on fire on November 10, 1938 in the course of the National Socialist November pogroms. The ruins were demolished just a few days later. To this day, nothing remains of the synagogue. A memorial plaque has stood on the site since 1946. The building of a media company was later erected on the burnt ground. → Read more

Termin: since November 9, 2023

Adresse: since November 9, 2023 Kasernenstraße on the corner of Siegfried-Klein-Straße, Düsseldorf