Schuler Shook

Celebrating 20 years of Crown Fountain! From the mind of an internationally renowned artist, Crown Fountain’s spitting faces and cascading waterfalls were an immediate success. Mark Sexton of Krueck Sexton Partners, lead architect for the project, and Jim Baney of Schuler Shook, lead lighting design for the project, recently shared some of their memories of melding glass, LED, and water to give life and light to artist Jaume Plensa’s multimedia sculpture in Millennium Park. Artist: Jaume Plensa Architect: Krueck Sexton Partners Color Kinetics Electronic Theatre Controls Crystal Fountains Barco Barbizon Lighting Company #BarnyczGroup #Culture22 📷: Steve Hall, Craig Dugan Monograph: Jaume Plensa: The Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa, Carsten Ahrens, and Keith Patrick #MillenniumPark #Chicago #CrownFountain #multimedia #sculpture #lightingdesign #architecture #water #LED #faces #20thanniversary https://lnkd.in/gxRj7BRw

North American Theatre Engineer Architects Conference (NATEAC) is like the Olympics of Theatre Planning. Every four years theatre consultants, architects, engineers, and theatre users meet in New York to discuss trending topics around planning and executing theatre. We’d like to thank ESTA for a thought-provoking and inspiring conference around access and accessibility during Disability Pride Month. #access #accessibility #NATEAC #NATEAC2024 #theatre4all #weareesta #theatreplanning

Good mOrning! What do Henry David Thoreau, Paul Rand, and a Chicago-based startup have in common? Morningstar’s Chicago office needed a completed renovation of multiple floors to create a highly flexible workplace and an easily reconfigurable environment dedicated to agile software development teams. Joe Mansueto founded Morningstar in his Chicago apartment in 1984, and the story we’ve heard is that he named the company after a line from Thoreau’s Walden. Taking the name a step further, Paul Rand, renowned art director and graphic designer, created the distinctive Morningstar logo with its prominent letter “O” a representation of the rising sun. Between Thoreau and Rand, we couldn’t help but be inspired! Visually dramatic lighting effects are applied at key points to help create an enjoyable, energetic office environment – such as luminous rings in the elevator lobby that provide ambient light while expressing a bold ceiling graphic inspired by the prominent ‘O’ in the company’s logo. Within the architecture, raw materiality and bold colors are balanced with clean lines and simple geometric forms. The lighting integrates with a variety of finishes in the space, becoming a part of the industrial aesthetic above workstations and public areas, and slipping seamlessly into finished ceilings over private meeting and collaboration areas. Overall, a simple, yet unique lighting palette integrated with the layered architecture provides a comfortable working environment. Client: Morningstar Design Architect: Perkins&Will 📷: Steve Hall, Hall+Merrick+McCaugherty #lightingdesign #lighting #architecture #office #inspiration #paulrand #design #Morningstar #OfficeRenovation

Celebrating the spirit of freedom! Happy 4th of July! #fourthofjuly #bombpop #summer

From architecture to gaming design to designing objects for human use on Mars, the students and faculty at the School of Design and the Built Environment (DBE) are forward-looking in creativity and design. Such inspired practitioners would put to good use an innovative home – a living lab, really – that could contribute significantly to the Curtin University community. Taking our cues from Wardle’s blending of spaces for research, practice, and teaching, we approached the lighting design similarly. As an example, the new building includes specialist learning rooms capable of being opened up and reconfigured to a larger space for use by multiple groups of learners. Lighting supports this structural flexibility with multi-source fittings that provide significantly different lighting for both screen-based presentations and table-based activities such as drawing or model making. Informal learning areas are scattered throughout the building, and these areas, too, received flexible illumination sufficient for multiple uses. DBE also places art in the context of architecture and design, and that provided us with the opportunity to design lighting for use in a gallery context. Highly efficient LED light fittings combined with daylight harvesting contribute to noteworthy energy savings. Schuler Shook’s lighting schemes helped the project achieve a 6 Star Green Star rating through energy savings, daylight harvesting, and specification of exterior light fittings that avoid upward light emission. We’re so pleased to have played a role in such an outstanding, important building for education. Traditional Custodians: Wadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation Curtin University Architect: Wardle 📷: Dion Robeson #LightingDesign #CurtinUniversity #architecture #AIAWA #design #education #highereducation #community

Happy 20th reno-versary to Boston’s Beaux-Arts beauty! Boston Opera House’s grand reopening in July 2004 marked the culmination of an extensive renovation. Later renamed Citizens Bank Opera House, this Thomas Lamb original was carefully restored by a dedicated team of architects, designers, and artisans. The venue originally opened in October 1928 as the B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre, presenting first-run films along with live vaudeville. A prominent movie palace through the 1950’s, the venue was rebranded as an opera house in 1980 and dedicated its focus solely to opera productions. Sadly, the opera house was forced to close in 1991 due to the cost of maintaining an aging building. The building sat empty for over a decade without heat, causing severe water damage and deterioration. In 1995 the National Trust for Historic Preservation declared the Opera House as one of the eleven most endangered historic sites in the country and was later declared both a city and national landmark. Clear Channel eventually purchased the building and OTJ Architects, Finegold Alexander, Schuler Shook, and a team of artisans renovated it to its former glory while improving its function and ability to meet the demands of larger Broadway productions. Read about how Schuler Shook worked with Martinez & Johnson Architects (now OTJ Architects), Akustiks, and Evergreene Architectural Arts to restore the Opera House: https://lnkd.in/g4Mmct7T OTJ Architects Finegold Alexander Architects Akustiks, LLC EverGreene Architectural Arts, Inc. Broadway Across America 📷: Whitney Cox Photography #theatreplanning #historictheatres #lightingdesign #architecture #theatre #BroadwayAcrossAmerica

The movement toward gender inclusion is not only transforming how theatre is produced, but how we design theatre spaces to better support the people who use them. Henry Golden-Starr sat down with Todd Hensley to talk about dressing rooms and how these spaces can become more inclusive through smart planning. #theatreplanning #architecture #design #Pride2024 #PrideMonth #inclusivity #diversityindesign

A Midwest mecca of department store drama, Dayton’s had it all. And it does again! Founded in Minneapolis in 1902, the store on Nicollet Mall became the brand’s flagship location and a shopping destination for decades. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places for its impact on Minnesota’s economy and culture. When the building closed, it was rebranded as The Dayton’s Project, a multiuse building for retail, offices, entertainment, and restaurants that opened in 2021. The lighting design highlights existing historic attributes and adds new details that recall the building’s historic heyday. All that history is balanced with the introduction of contemporary fixtures that suit the progressive, chic style found in the amenity spaces and shopping areas. Gensler’s design achieved LEED Silver certification, one more step forward for this historic renovation. See the variety of lighting upgrades in the building: https://lnkd.in/gR_PfpNT The Dayton's Project Architect: Gensler 📸: Tom Harris #lightingdesign #lighting #tomharris #hospitalitydesign #architecture #interiordesign #interiors #Minneapolis #historicrenovation #renovation #retail #LEED

Seeing stars? Today we’re going deep in the art of Texas to share a proscenium arch that’s a starburst shape instead of the typical rectangle! 🌟 This unique feature is found in McAllen Performing Arts Center's main theatre. The shape is echoed in the four arches that surround the audience, too. Developed as part of the architectural design concept, the star-like proscenium is taller at the center than at the sides. Design challenge accepted! We designed a forestage lighting structure that follows the overall shape, as vertical lighting boom from the floor with a climbable ladder within the structure, transferring to an angle tension wire grid to give climbable/walkable access to a lighting position all around the opening. On the stage side, the main valance is a programmable Venetian-style curtain. Each point of the starburst has a lift line going to its own motor. This allows the curtain to be shaped. It can be deployed with a horizontal scalloped bottom edge, or the points can be adjusted to mimic the shadow of the proscenium, creating gentle swags between the points. It can also be fully retracted out of view. Close collaboration with architects Holzman Moss Bottino (now Steinberg Hart) and subcontractor Texas Scenic made possible the mockup and execution of these elements. We are glad to have played a part in the creation of this bold and bright venue for McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley. Architect: Steinberg Hart / ERO Architects Acoustician: Jaffe Holden Subcontractor: Texas Scenic Company Photos: McAllen Performing Arts Center [1, 5] #theatreplanning #theatre #design #CityofMcAllen #McAllenProud #SStheatre #lightingdesign #SSlighting