Wayfair opened its first large-format store inside Eden’s Plaza in suburban Wilmette, Illinois just outside Chicago. This first-ever brick-and-mortar store marks a new milestone for the digitally native company. The new retail store provides a one-stop-shopping destination for all things home, including furniture, home décor, housewares, appliances and home improvement products. Customers can explore 19 departments with the assistance of in-store experts and curated collections. This two-story, 150,000-square-foot space offers an immersive shopping experience that sets a new standard for retail experiences and makes customers feel at home. The aesthetic that the design team from Gensler and HLB was designed to reflect Wayfair’s playful and inviting brand personality, characterized by a warm and bright palette with pops of the brand’s signature purple. The purple and white exterior and natural light beaming in the store are a far cry from the looks of the former Carson Pirie Scott department store that occupied the space for decades before 2018. The new design of the exterior integrates a front plaza that offers a space for gatherings and activities to cultivate a sense of togetherness in the local community. A high attention of detail was concentrated on the facade to create the ideal effect. The facade two story perforated structure creates the buildings signature image. A shadow box effect was created with use of the JEDI COMPACT to create a backlighting effect for uniform appearance of illumination through the metal openings. The entrance signage utilized Targetti’s JEDI COMPACT PROJECTOR powerful linear projector, ensuring the brand’s signature purple color 'pops' with an evenly distributed wash of illumination. In a tribute to the community, Wayfair commissioned artist Alyssa Low, a Chicago resident and Long Grove, Ill. native, to create a custom mural for the store exterior. The artist's artwork explores the relationships between colors, shapes, and composition. Wayfair challenged the artist to weave in references to both Chicago and Wilmette in the mural that’s displayed along the north exterior wall of the store. The façade mural is skillfully illuminated with Targetti’s JEDI PROJECTOR with a Wall Wash optic. The Targetti team was challenged with creating custom telescoping brackets to mount the five JEDI PROJECTORS to ensure that the light distribution properly illuminate the large scale custom work of art. The optional anodized aluminum side cover mounts flush with the top of the JEDI fixture and is painted to match the finish of the building delivering a fluid finished appearance. Continuity of fixture a pallet was important to the design team. The linear JEDI PROJECTOR continues is way around the building facade providing an evenly distributed wash of facade illumination, grounding the bottom level of the building during evening hours. Lighting Design: HLB Architect: Gensler Representatives: Performance Lighting Systems, PG Enlighten Photography: © Ryan Gobuty Photography

Appropriately named ‘The Dragon's Keep', the new 110,000 square foot Wizards of the Coast office headquartered in Renton, WA captivates with its imaginative design that merges playful with functional. Tasked with capturing the whimsical nature of WotC while maintaining a modern office environment, JPC Architects delivered an architectural design of bright and open multifunctional spaces. Completed in August 2023, the newly designed workspace of this world-wide leading game publishing company renowned for creating and publishing Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering seamlessly blends functionality with creativity, reflecting the imaginative spirit of the games developed there while catering to the diverse everyday needs of its employees. Working closely with Pacific Lighting Systems, the JPC design team selected Fluxwerx Portal Recessed and Portal Pendant plus Lines Suspended luminaires to illuminate the new office spaces. Characterised by precision optics and seamless architectural integration, both award-winning luminaire families provide tailored illumination that defines and elevates open workspaces, huddle meet hubs, and quiet focus areas. The interior architecture features a variety of ceiling types which allow for a balance of thematic ambiance and practical spatial organisation. The selected Fluxwerx luminaires harmonise with the diverse ceiling types, enhancing both ambiance and functional design. The luminaires' matching diminutive optic channels, versatile ceiling integrations, and range of sizes enabled the design team to craft a cohesive lighting strategy that seamlessly integrates with the architecture while ensuring aesthetic and functional consistency throughout. Brightly painted drywall ceilings throughout the office define corridor placement throughout the open spaces while open structure ceilings are completed with a black finish, adding depth. The matching diminutive shapes of the luminaires' optic channels, combined with the variety of ceiling integrations and sizes offered the design team to create a comprehensive lighting plan that delivers seamless architectural integration and aesthetic cohesion. Connected in unlimited straight runs and combined with 2-, 3-, and 4-way intersecting pivots, as well as flexible adjustability from 60 degrees, Lines Suspended luminaires bring dynamic and customizable patterns to the ceiling plane, complementing the vibrant energy of the office. Punctuating that are 5.5" and 9" Portal Pendants that are located amongst the patterns of Lines Suspended luminaires. Trimless Portal Recessed luminaires elegantly delineate corridor spaces within the drywall ceilings, while the black powdercoat finish and coordinating black cords of the suspended fixtures ensure a cohesive integration with the architectural ceiling aesthetic. The performance of the selected Fluxwerx luminaires is a testament to meticulous engineering rather than chance. Portal and Lines luminaires leverage advanced Fluxwerx proprietary optical structures and linear light extraction elements to achieve unparalleled precision and control. The 35 Up | 65 Down distribution of the Lines Suspended luminaires ensures uniform illumination across the office, delivering exceptional surface consistency and efficacies of up to 125 lm/w. Complementing this, Portal Recessed and Pendant luminaires, specified with a wide beam and 100 Down distribution, provide balanced spatial illumination while maintaining peak efficacies of up to 125 lm/w. JPC's design of the Wizards of The Coast offices offers a visual balance between work and play through the functional architecture, bold, colourful artwork, and complimentary lighting design that illuminates this Dragon's Keep. The optical precision, control, and complete absence of glare found in all the Fluxwerx products truly deal in this case a ‘critical hit'. * *In Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), a *critical hit occurs when a player rolls the highest possible result on an attack roll, typically rolling a natural 20 on a 20-sided die (d20). The concept of a critical hit adds an element of excitement and unpredictability to the game, reflecting moments of extraordinary success in combat. Architect: JPC Architects Lighting: Pacific Lighting Systems Photography: Pam Bolig Photography

The German Red Cross HQ in Berlin exemplify how lighting design can transform workspaces indoor as well as outdoor, balancing functionality with aesthetic appeal. Louis Poulsen’s indoor and outdoor lighting provides a comprehensive solution for any office or corporate facility, specialized for your needs. Year: 2023 Products: Flindt Bollard, Flindt Plaza, LP Grand Suspended, LP Slim Box Suspended

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