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Exteriors

Exterior Lighting Design is it's own beast, having no walls or strictly defined areas. The nighttime environment presents different challenges to create dynamic comfortable spaces while also maintaining safety, security, and sensitivity to nighttime environments. We practice International Dark Sky and Light Justice principles when approaching any project especially in sensitive locations.

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Other Projects with Noteworthy Exteriors:

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​MGM Springfield Casino & Hotel

MGM National Harbor Casino & Hotel

Little Caesars Arena

Seattle Storm Practice Facility (DD Design)

Lumen Field Roof Re-Lighting

Puyallup Tribe of Indians Emerald Queen Casino

Ho Chunk Nation Casinos

Choctaw Cultural Center

Eliseo Senior Living Community

Merrill Gardens Rancho Mission Viejo

618 John

Microsoft Redmond Campus - Building J

University Lutheran Church

Moses Lake Community Center & Police Station

Eugene Downtown Riverfront Park

The Heights District

Cannon Beach Elementary Community Center

Port of Seattle - various projects

Bertschi School

Epiphany School​

Star View Plaza

MGM National Harbor

Luxury Casino Hotel Resort outside the nation’s capital. 24-story hotel tower with 1.7 million sqft of site space. Lighting scope included all exterior, façade, hardscape and landscape, feature art works, port cochere, parking entrances, and hotel tower façade. Project LEED Gold certified. Designed while employed at Illuminating Concepts.

Choctaw Cultural Museum

Located in Durant, OK, the Choctaw Cultural Museum was years in the making for the Choctaw Nation to be able to provide a place for their historic artifacts, education, stick ball tournaments, and community center. Lighting scope included all exterior, landscape and hardscape. Designed while employed at Illuminating Concepts.

City of Silverton - Main Street & Urban Plaza

Silverton, OR - small town seeks identity. Main Street is dark and dilapidated and the new City Hall needs a park to handle overflow for Main Street Farmers Markets. Lighting Design for the Main Street which will be copied as standard for the rest of the city and lighting design for the Urban Plaza park complete with splash pad, pavilion stage and welcome community center. Currently in design. Designed while currently employed with Sazan Group.

MGM Springfield Hotel & Casino

Sprawling steampunk inspired entertainment complex boasting 125,000 sqft of gaming, a 250 room 6-story hotel, spa, salon, conference and ballrooms, pool, steakhouse, food courts, movie theatre, restaurants, shops, a bowling alley, and a restored and relocated armory used as a community event space with accompanying outdoor metal pavilion. Full lighting design scope for all exterior and interior areas of the project except BOH, interior parking garage, and movie theatre. Designed while employed at Illuminating Concepts.

Emerald Queen Casino

Luxury Casino Hotel Resort owned and operated by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians in Tacoma, WA. Dynamic RGBW linear lighting on the facade in addition to highighting the deep architecutral inset brows that are common in PNW architecture. Lighting scope included all exterior, façade, port cochere, and parking lot. Designed while employed at Illuminating Concepts.

Downtown Riverfront Park

City of Eugene’s major transformation of 16 acres of riverfront property along the Willamette River for recreation, respite, and community events. Lighting scope included an all dark sky compliant exterior lighting for hardscape and landscape, pathways, plaza area, and artist event shelter. The city in partnership with the landscape architect wrote code to ensure the park was designated as a special zone, while also ensuring illumination levels were setback from the waterfront to preserve wildlife environment while also allowing users to stroll the park safely at night. Designed while employed at LUMA Lighting.

Port of Seattle - Terminal 91

Over 5.2 million square feet, the Terminal 91 site consists of Pier 90, 91, and an Uplands industrial complex. The Port of Seattle committed to a multi-phased redevelopment of the vast site. Phase 1 consisted of site wide illumination assessment and re-design. Scope included multiple night and day site visits documenting existing light levels, lighting controls, and luminaire conditions for over 125 area lights and 250 individual high mast luminaires. A final lighting and controls re-design was also provided complete with updated site wide photometric, detailed report, luminaire schedule, controls sequence and guidance on final documentation and compliance to receive DarkSky Approved Port Marine Terminal Lighting Program Certification of which the design was based upon. If accepted, it would make the Port of Seattle only second in the Nation to achieve compliance thus making it a landmark sustainability project for the City. Currently in design. Designed while currently employed with Sazan Group.

The Heights District - Civic Plaza

Vancouver, WA - The Heights District is a redevelopment project of the former Tower Mall area in Central Vancouver. This new “20 -minute neighborhood” includes parks, mixed-income housing (to rent and own), shops, restaurants, transit and streets that will be safe and accessible within a 20-minute walk. At the heart of this development is a 1.5 acre civic park. Lighting design and MEP services were provided for the park which amenities included a spray deck, event stage, canopies, hardscape and lawn, support building and dedicated festival street both open to local traffic and ability to shut down for pedestrian only events such as farmer’s or holiday markets. Currently in design. Designed while currently employed with Sazan Group.

Starview Plaza

Mixed-use retail plaza located near business park in Sumner, WA. This two building development included a 3100sqft anchor building for Chuck’s Donuts, the development’s owners, with a second 8,500sqft building for up to five retail tenants. Scope included interior lighting design for Chuck’s Donuts, core and shell lighting for the retail tenant building, and exterior hardscape, landscape and façade for all buildings and parking lot lighting. Designed while currently employed with Sazan Group.

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