GE AWARDS

At Lightfair, GE hosted its annual gala awards dinner aboard the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier on May 5. Awards of Excellence went to Pamela Hull Wilson for the Dallas Convention Center Expansion; Dale R. Boyce of Ring & DuChateau Inc., David Kahler of Kahler Slater Architects, and George S. Sexton III of George Sexton Associates for the Brise Soleil lighting at Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum addition; and Robert Daniels, who worked with Sergio Barkas and Bernardo Fort-Brescia of Arquitectonica on the facade and show illumination of the Golden Moon Hotel & Casino in Philadelphia, MS. This project also won GE's 20th annual Edison Award. Awards of Merit went to: Yarnell Associates for the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City; Suzanne Powadiuk Design for Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto; Rita Koltai for the Cuyahoga County Courthouse rotunda relighting in Cleveland; Ross De Alessi Lighting Design for the Pyramid Arena exterior lighting in Memphis; Naomi Miller Lighting Design for Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in Albany; Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design for a corporate headquarters in Georgia; Creative Lighting Design & Engineering for Rocket Science at Cape Canaveral; and an award for Sustainable Design went to Benya Lighting Design and Soderstrom Architects for the Paul L. Boley Library at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, OR.