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Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. Over 20 years of designing innovative lighting concepts, providing full-service light designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. CONTACT We welcome and value opportunities for collaboration! How did you hear about us?* Subject* Send We look forward to learning more about your project! GET IN TOUCH! leni@lslp.net 41 Union Square West, Suite 619 New York, NY 10003

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. For over 20 years Light Projects has been designing innovative lighting concepts and providing full-service lighting designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. Experts in both day and nighttime light experiences, resulting in spectacular creative visions with light offering safety, beauty, and sustainability. Public Art < Previous Next > Photos: Bryan Amann SpectraScape Location Dallas, Texas Client City of Dallas Team Thomas Balsley Associates, LUCID Glass, Lighting Science Group At the heart of downtown Dallas’s revitalization is the Main Street Garden Park–a contemporary public space of lawns, gardens, fountains, dog run, open-air shelters, and other family and visitor-friendly features such as an outdoor café. Architect-designed, inverted “L” shaped green-glass shade-structures standing along the edge of Main Street are set off by a long triangle of seasonally planted, colorful striated gardens. For the Park, artist Leni Schwendinger created site-specific interactive artwork. The artwork utilizes the narrow edge of four new study shelters designed by Thomas Balsley. When a passing visitor enters the shelter, the exterior edges of the L-shaped structure glow with vertical bands of luminous color. Connecting the artwork to the garden itself, four seasonal color palettes were derived from the nearby field of striated plantings—rusts and golds for fall, pinks, yellows, and greens for summer, and so on—striving to differentiate each combination of hues. Winter, spring, summer, and fall are announced through rhythmic sequences of colors and tones. To achieve this effect, innovative LED technologies and computer electronics were employed along with custom fabricated art-glass panels. The artwork invites participation and calls attention to the often-forgotten periphery of an everyday structure. The art installation transforms a park shelter into a compelling nighttime urban experience. SpectraScape’s light-play transforms Main Street Garden Park into an urban oasis visible day and night.

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. Over 20 years of designing innovative lighting concepts, providing full-service light designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. PUBLIC SPEAKING Play Video Play Video 03:51 Shades of Night | Cities of Light with Leni Schwendinger Hear from Leni Schwendinger, Creative Director at NightseeingTM to discover how light creates joy, safety and legibility after dark. Discover why planners need to place night time design at the centre of their night time economy strategy. Leni led Cities Leadership Institute's 'Get the Night Right' Masterclasses in Sydney and the Hunter Region on the Night Time Economy. Play Video Play Video 10:52 Burlington 2019 - A New Language Of Lighting | Leni Schwendinger Signify Design and Lighting Academy hosted the 2nd edition of the Burlington Sessions, a CoCreate aimed at bringing together lighting artists & designers that inspire us, push the limits and create a new language of lighting. This is a small group, by invitation only, of international recognized disruptors leading the way into the future of lighting. These sessions are very hands-on, Signify shared some of the solutions we are developing in a very early stage, our guests were able to experiment and explore, and share their ideas on what/ how would these concepts work for them and their customers. Leni Schwendinger is an award-winning authority on city lighting & creator of illuminated environments. This work is shared through her public speaking & envisioning engagements, including NightSeeing™. She directs International Nighttime Design Initiative, establishing an interdisciplinary profession. Leni is a Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and a Design Trust for Public Space Fellow (NYC) Contact us: Find more about Signify Lighting Academy: https://www.signify.com/global/lighting-academy Follow us on Social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SignifyUni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/signify-lighting-university/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SignifyLightingAcademy/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PhilipsLighting/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=19 #Signify #LightingAcademy #BurS2 #BurlingtonSessions #Lighting #SignifyDesign #LightingDesign #LightingArtists #PioneersofLight Play Video Play Video 35:03 The Collaborative Night: Where light and cities meet Light for Life - July 27, 2020 A recording of Leni Schwendinger's unique presentation on behalf of Lighting Urban Communities International (LUCI) and hosted by IES (Illuminating Engineering Society). Light for Life was a global two-day online conference. Play Video Play Video 03:34 Architectural Digest: Lighting the Way Join Leni, Architectural Digest and Delta Airlines in a discussion of cities after work hours. Visit the Light Projects studio in the Fashion Center district, Manhattan. Travel through Times Square and New York City, Broadway Pier in San Diego, Liberty Science Center in New Jersey and Coney Island in Brooklyn. "Light is a tool to transform cities at night. The work we do with light is meant to transform neighborhoods, districts, infrastructure and spaces. To me night is a beautiful canvas..." http://cs.condenastdigital.com/cs/promo/delta/travelbetter/ for an additional image gallery. Play Video Play Video 19:07 Leni Schwendinger on Nighttime Design for the 24-Hour City "Nighttime is an existing condition, and that condition engenders different behaviors, different situations, different perceptions at night" Leni Schwendinger discusses the role of lighting design to create a 24-hour city. Schwendinger aims to utilize lighting design to allow the nighttime to be a place of activity in the urban, where people in public feel safe and included. Leni's signature NightSeeing™ program is an eye-opening concept to understand the way lighting impacts our after-hours urban experience. By designing lighting to fit the needs of different neighborhoods rather than trying to curate a specific type of experience on top of an existing neighborhood, Schwendinger sees potential in the development of nightlife in urban areas that do not conflict with local communities. Leni Schwendinger is the founder of NightSeeing™, the International Nighttime Design Initiative, and has formerly worked at Arup, taught at Portland State University, and has been a fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space. Schwendinger’s past projects have included installations at Kingston Bridge, Glasgow, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, and the Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall. She brought her first NightSeeing™ walk to Prague during reSITE's In/visible City conference. -- reSITE is an international platform connecting people and ideas to improve the urban environment. We work at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, politics, culture, and economics. We feature thought leaders whose work pushes the boundaries on how we build, design, regenerate and create life in cities, and frame them through many lenses, convening them in one place. We act as a catalyst for social action and innovative leadership. We encourage an exchange of ideas about making cities more livable, competitive, and resilient. We protect and promote public space, architecture, and sustainable development in cities. All to make our cities more livable, competitive, resilient, inclusive, mobile, and designed with humans in mind. Listen to our podcast Design and the City on the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. ▫️www.reSITE.org/podcast Learn More + Connect with Us! www.reSITE.org ▫️https://www.facebook.com/reSITEfestival/ ▫️https://www.instagram.com/resite_/ ▫️https://twitter.com/reSITE_ ▫️https://www.linkedin.com/company/resite-festival/ Play Video Play Video 06:14 As You Light It: Leni Schwendinger In our second installment of As You Light It we ventured to Manhattan to interview "lighting urbanist" Leni Schwendinger. From the terminals of Port Authority to the brights lights of Time Square and the muted majesty of Bryant Park at night, Schwendinger takes us on an odyssey that explores the unique effects of lighting in the city that doesn't sleep! ONLINE PRESENTATIONS + TRENDING TALKS Luminous Legibility: an online presentation and discussion about the trends and innovative methodologies that are rocking the world of public lighting design. Connecting Communities through Smart and Responsive Lighting: Using the newly released Smart Lighting Guidebook , Leni presents a holistic approach to digital technologies — valuing safety, welcome, walkability, and social capital -- to consider the practical the advantages of connected lighting as a critical tool for around-the-clock placemaking. SCHEDULE TODAY LUCI recently commissioned Leni to compile a report about the state of the field of urban lighting in the U.S. The report submitted by Leni is excellent. It showcases her curiosity and her expertise on the topic. It uncovers interesting differences in nighttime lighting values and governance between European cities and those in America. We are looking forward to continuing our collaborations with Leni on this research." — Mark Burton-Page Director General, Lighting Urban Communities International Association

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. For over 20 years Light Projects has been designing innovative lighting concepts and providing full-service lighting designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. Experts in both day and nighttime light experiences, resulting in spectacular creative visions with light offering safety, beauty, and sustainability. Landscape + Parks < Previous Next > Photo: Philippe Renault Image: Leni Schwendinger Light Projects Zaryadye Park Location Moscow, Russia Client City of Moscow Team Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Hargreaves, Citymakers, Mobility in Chain, Buro Happold, Arup Leni Schwendinger joined the DS+R team for a highly sought-after, international, design competition for a park adjacent to Red Square with St Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. The team was selected out of 90 submissions from 27 different countries. Russia’s geographical variety is mirrored in the landscape design: Arctic lands, birch, coastal and coniferous forests, the steppe, and a meadow. Buildings and pavilions such as concert halls, museums, restaurants, and an ice cave were envisioned as jewels in the landscape. A 70-meter panoramic observation deck is illuminated to appear as if it were suspended in mid-air. Illumination concepts parallel the landscape and architectural principles. Lighting intends to create webs of starry light to mark destinations and delineate paths in an innovative, loosely structured way. Lighting displays interpretive measures of heat and cold weather by light quality and color temperature.

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. Over 20 years of designing innovative lighting concepts, providing full-service light designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. PUBLIC ART Uptown Flash LOCATION: East Harlem, New York, U.S. CLIENT & Partners: Uptown Grand Central, NYC Department of Transportation and Design Trust for Public Space Continue Tidal Radiance LOCATION: San Diego, California, U.S. CLIENT: Unified Port of San Diego TEAM: Bermello Ajamil & Partners. Paul Basile Fabrication, DCI-Engineering Continue Dreaming in Color LOCATION: Marion O. McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, U.S. CLIENT: The City of Seattle, Seattle Center TEAM: LMN Architects, GGN, Ron Fogel Associates Continue Coney Island Parachute Jump LOCATION: Brooklyn, New York, U.S. CLIENT: NYC Economic Development Corporation, New York City Parks Department, Brooklyn Borough Presidents Office TEAM: STV, CAN Continue SpectraScape LOCATION: Dallas, Texas, U.S. CLIENT: City of Dallas TEAM: Thomas Balsley Associates, LUCID Glass, Lighting Science Group Continue Glowing Waterway LOCATION: Unna, Germany CLIENT: The City of Unna TEAM: Leni Schwendinger Light Projects Continue The Great Hall: A Spatial Portrait LOCATION: Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. CLIENT: Liberty Science Center TEAM: EwingCole, Ed Purver, Ron Fogel Associates Continue

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. For over 20 years Light Projects has been designing innovative lighting concepts and providing full-service lighting designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. Experts in both day and nighttime light experiences, resulting in spectacular creative visions with light offering safety, beauty, and sustainability. Infrastructure + Bridges < Previous Next > Photos: Grimshaw Architects MTA Enhanced Station Initiative Location New York, NY Client New York City Transit, The MTA Team Grimshaw, Arup, Page, Ayres Cowley Architects New York’s century-old subway lines transport millions of residents and visitors between 472 stations, across all five boroughs daily. To improve user experience, 33 subway stations were slated to be renovated in 2015-2019. Led by the New York City Transit Authority (NYCT), the ESI Program was a major investment in MTA infrastructure. Arup was ESI’s Program Facilitator tasked to develop the bridging and bid documents, oversee the architectural and engineering design, scheduling, cost, construction packaging, and procurement of all program work MTA desired to counteract the dim, worn-out atmosphere of the stations. Leni Schwendinger was involved in the initial envisioning process with Grimshaw Architects. She then led the Arup lighting design group, while working closely with Arup’s infrastructure department and wider design team. Efforts for historic station lighting were completed with Page Ayres Cowley Architects. The Arup lighting team scope ranged from extremely specialized technical requirements to illumination of creative architectural and wayfinding additions for the newly envisioned stations. The design consisted of conversion to LED, redesign, and reconsideration of illumination systems. It focused on perceptually "raising the roof" of the compressed underground experience with uplights into the rounded ceiling vaults. The design team focused on an atmosphere of crisp passageways and to complement physical attributes such as new finishes, public art, glass balustrades, and other upgrades. A prominent station will be the site of a major light-art installation throughout the mezzanine area. Schwendinger led the effort to create a canvas for the winning artist. After the bridging document phase, the lighting group joined design-build teams to ensure that the lighting concepts were adhered to. MTA’s design-build efforts are focused on refreshed identity, visual comfort, and better wayfinding, among other amenities, to enhance New Yorkers' everyday lives.

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. Over 20 years of designing innovative lighting concepts, providing full-service light designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. URBAN LIGHTING TRANSFORMS PLACES AFTER SUNSET KEY S ERVICES Pre-Design Discovery Existing Conditions Audit Community Engagement through NightSeeing ™ Lighting Design Phases CONCEPT SCOPE - Develop concepts to enhance landscape and architectural design themes - Basis of Design Report (Schematic) - Review and Comment (Final Design) - Site Commissioning FULL-SERVICE SCOPE - Concept through Construction Documents - Site Commissioning HIGHLY QUALIFIED WOMAN-OWNED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (WBE) DOWNLOADS NY STATE WBE CERTIFICATION NY CITY WBE CERTIFICATION PORT AUTHORITY WBE CERTIFICATION DESIGN PRACTICE SERVICES DOCUMENT LENI SCHWENDINGER For more than 20 years, Leni’s exploration of light has evolved into a profound understanding of the medium, which informs her unique approach across a variety of genres, including infrastructure, landmarks and the ever-changing urban environment and inclusive of community engagement practice. Her work weaves the dramatic and playful possibilities of light onto the fabric of urban life, sparking an expansion of social interaction and activity in public gathering places. She is an expert in light planning, with clients in the U.S. such as Downtown Santa Monica, City of Saratoga Springs, 82nd Street Partnership (Queens), city councils in Australia and Colombia. Recent lighting design projects can be experienced at sites such as parks, subways and bridges for architects, engineers and landscape architects. Examples include the New York MTA Subway Refurbishment, Cleveland’s Little Italy transit head-house, Hunters Point South Park (NYC) and Mulberry Commons (New Jersey). She directs International Nighttime Design Initiative which is establishing an interdisciplinary profession. Projects for the Initiative include Smart Lighting Guidance for New York State and developing innovative pilots with think-tank, New Urban Mobility.  Around the world, for a decade, people have joined in the NightSeeing™ Navigate Your Luminous City program. These “LightWalks” have been conducted in New York City, Seattle and Portland, US; London, UK; Bogota, CO; Prague, CZ; Sydney, AU; to name a few metropolitan locations. Now, an internationally in-demand speaker, Schwendinger is considered a pioneer and authority on urban lighting and infrastructure. She is the recipient of numerous professional awards and global media coverage. Her prestigious fellowships include affiliations with Visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, Design Trust for Public Space (NYC) and Urban Design Forum.

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. For over 20 years Light Projects has been designing innovative lighting concepts and providing full-service lighting designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. Experts in both day and nighttime light experiences, resulting in spectacular creative visions with light offering safety, beauty, and sustainability. Public Art < Previous Next > Photos: Leni Schwendinger Light Projects Photos: Leni Schwendinger Light Projects (sculpture, daytime detail) Tidal Radiance Location San Diego, CA Client Unified Port of San Diego Team Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Paul Basile Fabrication, DCI-Engineering Tidal Radiance was funded through the Port of San Diego’s Percent for Art program. Adding drama and another focal point to the North Embarcadero, the dynamic display is visible to Port Pavilion visitors, pedestrians strolling along the Embarcadero, and motorists traveling on North Harbor Drive. For the Port Pavilion of Broadway Pier, a 45-foot by 16-foot exterior wall sculpture, Tidal Radiance, combines an environment of projections to evoke tides and sea life. To set the stage for a dramatic transformation during the night, sculptural elements - custom cast-glass and metal forms - remain neutral by day. To accomplish this, Light Projects collaborated with the architect on material selections responsive to sunlight. After sunset, Tidal Radiance becomes a shimmering, organic form, seen from near and far. The artwork is visible to boats, pedestrians, and motorists along the Embarcadero promenade. The interplay between artwork and viewer is integral to Tidal Radiance. Along the perimeter of the terminal, the spectator becomes a participant in the luminous stenciled projections. Chromatic seasonal illuminations are evocative of the San Diego Bay culture. Luminous greens represent the whale watching season and glowing golds the cruise season. During the moon cycles, the full moon is expressed by pale blues, while the new and quarter moon emanate deep blue hues. This element of controlled changeability - combined with color symbolism - allows the artist to create public art that not only pleases the eye but communicates and displays nuanced messages about the environment we live in.

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. For over 20 years Light Projects has been designing innovative lighting concepts and providing full-service lighting designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. Experts in both day and nighttime light experiences, resulting in spectacular creative visions with light offering safety, beauty, and sustainability. Public Art < Previous Next > Photos: Arch Photo / Eduard Hueber Photos: Arch Photo / Eduard Hueber Coney Island Parachute Jump Location Brooklyn, NY Client NYC Economic Development Corporation, New York City Parks, Department, Brooklyn Borough Presidents Office Team STV, CAN Coney Island’s world-renowned Parachute Jump tower, modeled after paratrooper training towers, was constructed for the 1939 New York World’s Fair as an amusement ride. In 1941, the 260-foot tower was relocated to Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park, where it attracted half-a-million riders per year. In 1969, after the Park’s sale to the late developer Fred Trump, the Jump was closed permanently and abandoned A symbol of Coney Island’s revitalization efforts, in 2005, after the structure was landmarked it was fully refurbished. Leni Schwendinger was commissioned to conceptualize the tower as artwork. She envisioned a meeting of the popular and the mysterious— emanating from the semi-solid figure of the mushroom-shaped tower. Illuminated iconic models and sources of inspiration ranged from the Eiffel Tower, to the Empire State Building, with its shifting colors to mark public celebrations and occasions as well as dividing urban day from night. To emphasize the sense of the parachutes climbing and falling, the tower was illuminated in parts from bottom to top. Additionally, an innovative LED fixture was designed to satisfy the client’s desire for an icon that would be seen from multiple vantage points including the Verrazano Bridge. As a proof of concept, an on-site mock-up was orchestrated to observe the fixture from all directions. The bright sparkling LEDs defined the canopy of the tower. The lighting systems were integrated and programmed to animate sequences of colored light. For optimal audience connection, a calendar of programmed sequences played daily – identifying on-and-off boardwalk season, full-moon cycle, and holidays. During bird migratory season, the lights were programmed to turn off at 11:00 pm, to align with the bird life-saving “Lights Out New York” initiative. Leni Schwendinger’s artistic vision and the client’s mandate were actualized in July 2006 at a public celebration on the boardwalk—when the Parachute Jump’s starry dynamo of light was seen from the ocean, highway, boardwalk, and neighborhoods all around New York City. The award-winning design was dismantled in 2016.

Light Projects by Leni Schwendinger is the #1 US based professional lighting studio serving global clients. Over 20 years of designing innovative lighting concepts, providing full-service light designs that optimize city, urban, and public spaces. LANDSCAPES + PARKS Photo: Barrett Doherty Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park Phase II LOCATION: Queens, NY, U.S. CLIENT: NYC Economic Development Corp TEAM: Arup, SWA/Thomas Balsley, Weiss/Manfredi Architects Continue North Embarcadero Vision Project (NEVP) LOCATION: San Diego, California, U.S. CLIENT: Port of San Diego TEAM: Project Design Consultants, Civitas, Spurlock Poirier Continue Zaryadye Park LOCATION: Moscow, Russia CLIENT: City of Moscow TEAM: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Hargreaves, Citymakers, Mobility in Chain, Buro Happold, Arup Continue The Park LOCATION: Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. CLIENT: MGM Resorts International TEAM: !MELK, Marnell Architecture, Cooper Robertson & Partners, Arup Continue HtO Toronto Harbourfront Parks LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada CLIENT: The City of Toronto TEAM: Janet Rosenberg + Associates, Claude Cormier Architectes Paysagistes, Hariri Pontarini Architects, Stantec Continue Jiading Park LOCATION: Jiading, China CLIENT: Shanghai Jiading New City Development Company, Ltd. TEAM: Sasaki Continue