GE Announces Winner of Coveted 24th Annual GE Edison Award
Powadiuk Wins 2006 GE Edison Award
NEW YORK (May 8, 2007)—The 2006 GE Edison Award was presented to Suzanne Powadiuk of Suzanne Powadiuk Design, Inc., based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for her lighting design for The Gardiner Museum of Art in Toronto. The personalized Steuben crystal award was presented last night by GE Consumer & Industrial at a gala dinner reception at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The GE Edison Award competition—this was its 24th year—is open to those lighting professionals who creatively employ significant use of GE lamps in a lighting design project completed during the previous calendar year.
The Gardiner Museum is one of the world's preeminent ceramic art museums. The architectural renewal builds upon the original structure designed in 1984. The lighting design complements the newly created third floor and the expanded ground floor, providing an enhanced urban presence without compromising the museum's intimate scale.
The ceiling and lighting strategy for the entire project is revealed upon entry into the lobby. Knife–edge slots organize and contain the components of the lighting design. Different luminaires and light sources are selected to meet the needs of the task at hand. At the entrance, the slots house continuous recessed lensed luminaires with GE 32–watt T8 Starcoat® Ecolux® 3000K lamps.
The new third floor gallery provides exhibit space for both large and small ceramic pieces. A track system sits neatly up in the slots. Low voltage, adjustable, lockable track heads with GE ConstantColor® Precise™ MR16 lamps are used for exhibit lighting. They are specified because of their excellent color rendition, and wide variety of wattages and beam spreads. To light smaller objects, framing projectors with Q71MR16/C/NSP15 lamps are used. The track system offers the user maximum flexibility in terms of luminaire options and placement. The clerestory window brings in natural light during the day. At night, GE F32T8/SPX30/ECO lamps create a glow behind the sandblasted glazing.
Says lighting designer Suzanne Powadiuk, "With a limited number of lamp and luminaire options and dimming control systems, the user has been given a cost and energy effective, easily maintained lighting solution that addresses the varied needs of the public, restaurant and exhibition spaces."
A prestigious panel of five judges selected this year's entry for its superiority in the following categories: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state–of–the–art lighting products and techniques; appropriate color, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness and cost effectiveness. Judges for this 24th annual competition were: John Bos, Bos Lighting Design; Hank Forrest, LC, IALD, IESNA, LEED AP, Fisher Marantz Stone Partners; Ingrid McMasters, LC, IESNA, KJWW; Claudio Ramos, IALD, IESNA, h.e. banks + associates; Adrienne Shulman, GE Consumer & Industrial.
The winning project was one of three Awards of Excellence finalists. The other Awards of Excellence winners were Bronx Library Center (Bronx, New York, USA), designed by Domingo González, Renee Chaykin, Alexia Shen and Kevin Condrack of Domingo González Associates (New York, New York, USA); and Kohlenwaesche (Essen, NRW, Germany), designed by Andreas Schulz, Stefan Hofmann and Nicole Kober of Licht Kunst Licht AG (Bonn, NRW, Germany).
Also presented at the GE Edison Awards ceremony in New York City were seven Awards of Merit, and one Award for Sustainable Design.
2006 GE Edison Awards of Merit
- Amanyara (Providenciales, Turkes and Caicos Islands)
Andrew Jacques and Nathan Thompson — The Flaming Beacon P/L (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
- Highlight Munich Business Towers (Munich, Bavaria, Germany)
Michael F. Rohde and Andreas Voigt — L-Plan Lighting Design (Berlin, Germany)
Helmut Jahn — Murphy/Jahn Architects (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- Los Angeles Temple — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Kris Wilde — Adaptive Design Group (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
- Mariinsky Palace (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Sergey Mitelev — St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise "Lensvet" (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Victor Tsvetkov — LSC "SPDG–commercial" (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Yury Kolotovsky — St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise "Lensvet" (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Konstantin Dunin — LSC "SPDG–commercial" (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
- New Poly Plaza (Beijing, China)
Wang Zaiqian, Wu Gen, Han Yongquan, Wang Yanni, Feng Yanbin and Kong Zefeng — Beijing Hao Er Sai Lighting Engineering Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China)
- Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Sean O'Connor and Martha Lopacki — Sean O'Connor Associates Lighting Consultants, LLC (Los Angeles, California, USA)
- Payless ShoeSource Prototype Store (New York, New York, USA)
Archit Jain and Insiya Divan — Lighting Design Alliance (Signal Hill, California, USA)
2006 GE Edison Awards for Sustainable Design
- Bronx Library Center (Bronx, New York, USA)
Domingo González, Renee Chaykin, Alexia Shen and Kevin Condrack — Domingo González Associates (New York, New York, USA)
Visit www.GEEdisonAward.com to view all the award winners of the 2006 GE Edison Awards in more detail and to find information related to the 2007 GE Edison Award call for entries.
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GE Edison Award Winner: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Photography by: Eduard Hueber Arch Photo Inc
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Winning lighting design maximizes flexibility, preserves museum's intimate scale. Photography by: Tom Arban Photography
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