GE Announces Winners of Coveted 22nd Annual GE Edison Award
Florentine, Jacobs and Heck Win 2004 GE Edison Award for Lighting James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
NEW YORK — The 2004 GE Edison Award was awarded to Frank A. Florentine, William Jacobs and David M. Heck of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, for lighting the museum’s James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The personalized Steuben Crystal Award was presented last night by GE Consumer & Industrial, Lighting, at a gala dinner reception at the Waldorf=Astoria® in New York City.
The James S. McDonnell Space Hangar features 113 large space artifacts, including the Shuttle Enterprise and an instrument ring from a Saturn V rocket, and more than 500 smaller artifacts. Says lighting designer Frank Florentine, “The scale of the project was overwhelming. It was like lighting players in a sports stadium — except the players weren’t moving. Lighting from different angles was imperative."
Low-mount track lighting, with GE 39-watt PAR30 ConstantColor® CMH®ceramic metal halide lamps, and high-mount theatrical fixtures, with 150-watt ceramic metal halide lamps, highlight individual artifacts throughout the 53,000-square-foot hangar. Light from different angles — floor, 7-meter-high towers, and 10-meter-high positions — combines to show the size and depth of each rocket. One of the judges remarked, “Both the largest and smallest of artifacts are carefully manipulated to render scale, detail and drama in such a voluminous space.”
Clerestory windows and overhead track lighting with GE 100-watt ConstantColor® CMH® PAR38 lamps mounted 20 meters above the floor provide ambient lighting throughout the hangar. Special exhibits, like the Mobile Quarantine Facility, which was used to transport astronauts from the recovery ship to Houston, Texas, are lighted with fiber optics and LEDs. GE PAR30 ConstantColor® CMH® lamps in track fixtures highlight intricate mechanisms within the Saturn V instrument ring.
This is the third GE Edison Award Frank Florentine has won for projects with the National Air and Space Museum. Florentine also won the 1986 Award for lighting the “Looking at Earth” Exhibition Gallery and the 1989 Award for “Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age.” “Frank Florentine has helped create yet another magical environment for the National Air and Space Museum,” says Mary Beth Gotti, manager of GE’s Lighting Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.
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; energy and cost effectiveness; and appropriate color, form and texture revelation. This year’s judges were: Jerry Cassel, IESNA, GE Consumer & Industrial, Lighting; Rhomney Forbes-Gray, LC, IALD, Lightbrigade Architectural Lighting; Addison Kelly LC, IALD, IESNA, U.S. Lighting Consultants; Ronald Kurtz, IALD, LEED AP, IESNA, Randy Burkett Lighting, Inc.; and Jim Youngston, IALD, IESNA, LC, Newcomb & Boyd.
The winning project was one of four Awards of Excellence finalists. The other Awards of Excellence winners were Washington Square Arch, designed by Domingo Gonzalez, IALD, IES, Nelson Downend, IES and Deborah Tulchin of Domingo Gonzalez Associates (New York); Hyde Park Bank, designed by James Baney, IALD, LC, Carla Bukalski, PE, LC, IESNA; Maureen Mahr, LC of Schuler Shook (Chicago); architect: Florian Architects; and signage/graphics consultant: Grillo Group; and Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House, National Assembly Administration, designed by Andreas Schulz, Stephanie Grosse-Brockhoff and Susanne Rottenbacher of Licht Kunst Licht (Germany).
Five Awards of Merit and two Awards for Sustainable Design were also presented at the GE Edison Awards ceremony in New York:
2004 GE Edison Awards of Merit
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Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
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Suzanne Powadiuk
Suzanne Powadiuk Design Inc. (Toronto, Canada)
Exhibit Designer: Reich + Petch Design International
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New York Botanical Gardens Visitors Center
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Domingo Gonzalez, IALD, IES, AC Hickox, IES and Anne Cheney, IES, LC
Domingo Gonzalez Associates (New York, New York)
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Yufeng Bridge in Kunshan
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Qian Liu, Xiaobai Fu and Xiaoping Lin
Gaoge Landscape Bridge Design Research Center (Xiamen, China)
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Petco Park
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Joy Yamada and Krystof Pavek
Illume / M-E Engineers, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, Colorado)
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Overture Center for the Arts
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Francesca Bettridge, IALD, IESNA, LC, Marty Salzberg, IESNA and Nira Wattanachote
Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design (New York)
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2004 GE Edison Awards for Sustainable Design
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Seattle Central Library
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Suzan Tillotson and Wai Mun Chui
Kugler Tillotson Associates (New York, New York)
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Stillwell Avenue Terminal Station
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Domingo Gonzalez, IALD, IES, Nelson Downend, IES and
Deborah Tulchin
Domingo Gonzalez Associates (New York, New York)
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The GE Edison Award competition 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. Visit
www.GEEdisonAward.com to view all the award winners of the 2004 GE Edison Awards in more detail and to find information related to the 2005 GE Edison Award Call for Entries.
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