Facets of Light
City planners, developers and design professionals regard evening and nighttime hours as critical for master planning, cultural diversity...
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Urban Nighttime Design: Bridging the Gap Between Community and Technology
Nighttime experts and aficionados envision that public street lighting and private lighting will create a connective tissue that adapts...
6th Street Viaduct: is it a bridge or a place?
Proposed archway illumination envisaged real time traffic data displayed through tints and nature’s rhythms Significantly, LSLP was...
Urban Lighting Design: Contemporary Vision for Nocturnal Environments
Visit the re-energized Leni Schwendinger Light Projects website Feast your eyes, intellect and imagination on images and text about the...
Inventing Nighttime Design
Nighttime design and its concomitant Shades of Night analysis were born out of the NightSeeing™ Program During the dark hours, a nexus of...
El-space recognition from Fast Company
Link here for Design Trust for Public Space updates on Under the Elevated, Phase 2
El-Space: first, the after-dark site study
It was cold, it was dark…normal site study conditions. Arup staff and I braved the night with cameras, illuminance meters, laser...
Nighttime Design Has its Day
Here, the Arup description: “In the past, the attitude of ‘the more light the better’ has led to a general abundance of light, especially...
International NightSeeing, Planning Continues: Megacities
Lighting is an essential element of our 24/7 world The world is urbanizing at an unprecedented pace. Once dominant, rural and...
A Slice of Light: Selections from Fusing Art + Design
A launch to the season of golden slanting sun and naturally tinting leaves, here is a seasonal selection of commentaries voted the best...
Islington After Dark (A London LightWalk)
Photo by Leni The NightSeeing program’s intention is to open people’s eyes to an existing nighttime milieu, as well as providing an...
Report: “21st Century Parks” Book Reception, January 6, 2011
The line crawled out the door half the block down La Guardia Place… the seating once inside filled three spaces – the multipurpose hall...
LightWalk Times Square with Author Dietrich Neumann and his Architectural History Class
I was thrilled to receive a message from Dietrich Neumann, whose “Architecture of the Night” has inspired so many. He indicated that he...
As You Light It: Dwell Magazine Video and Leni Schwendinger
Dwell Magazine’s series, As You Light It <link here>, focuses on my idea of the City as home and the NightSeeing™ program. The video...
Transforming a Darkened Underpass into a Brightly Breathing Bridge and Streetscape Lighting Design
Less than one year after the contract was awarded, Light Projects’ illumination and color design for Louisville’s 2nd Street Bridge and...
THE DIRT: Connecting the Built + Natural Environments, Interview with Leni Schwendinger
Interview with Leni Schwendinger, Light Artist and Designer (Full text and images link) Cities of Light, Planetizen’s version (Link to...
NightSeeing™ in Washington D.C. (with Landscape Architects)
In the evening Washington D.C. NW is a monochromatic blend of light. People are the action. The shifting interplay of nighttime dark and...
Schwendinger Podcasts Recorded by Museum Without Walls
CultureNow is focused on cultural mapping and exhibitions about New York City. They called the other day and asked if I would talk about...
Light Planning; Chinatown Little Italy Historic District
Light Planning and Community Involvement Official map of the Chinatown Little Italy Historic District boundaries The Chinatown Little...
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel; Vertical Layers of New York
Much has been written about the Atlantic Avenue tunnel since Bob Diamond rediscovered access through a manhole to the storied passageway...
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