We are delighted to announce that Deeksha Surendra has joined dpa’s Dubai studio as a Senior Designer further expanding our team in the Middle East.

Deeksha has in the past, worked in lighting design and architecture practices in India and UK. After graduating in architecture and having worked in architectural practices for a few years, Deeksha’s interest in the symbiotic nature of art and architecture led her to pursue a Master’s degree in a multidisciplinary art course in Edinburgh. It was here that she was introduced to lighting design, baking and running. Now she pursues at least 2 of the 3 at any given time. Deeksha is also a registered member of the Council of Architecture in India.

Shown above is an image that Deeksha has selected that is inspirational to her, and below a short verse that Deeksha has written about her chosen image.

At dawn, a bonfire is lit
A giant orb looming, in silence we gather,
A year has gone by, we await the beginning of another
With hope, love and light
(Auroville, India – January 1, every year)

 

We are delighted to announce that two dpa projects have won awards at the recent European Hotel Design Awards 2016.

The Architecture Awards – Newbuild:  
Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

The Interior Design Awards – Restaurant:
KOLLÁZS Brasserie & Bar at Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, Budapest 

Congratulations to everyone involved with these projects!

We are delighted to announce that the following dpa projects have been selected for awards:

 

 

 

Our Dubai Studio were delighted to win an award at the Light Middle East Awards 2016 for their design of the Steigenberger Hotel, Dubai in the Hotel Lighting Project of the Year category.

We were also delighted to have three further projects shortlisted:

Many congratulations to Louise Mari G. Santiago and Chetna Misra who were among the awardees of Ready Steady Light ME!

We are pleased to share an article published by Sleeper Magazine, regarding the Park Hyatt Mallorca designed by dpa’s London Studio. Please click here to view this in full.

We are delighted to announce the promotion of three existing team members, a new Senior Designer and Mike Simpson re-joining the Practice.

We asked each team member to select an image that was inspirational to them and write a few words about why that image is important. Please click here to view this together with a few general words from each team member.

dpa were invited to participate again in the darc Night Awards, held on 15th September 2016 in London. This was a unique event held to celebrate the darc awards and to also showcase a series of light installations from collaborations between lighting designers and manufacturer partners.

Inner Iridescence is an installation that provokes a contrast of feelings. It’s dull, modular exterior is in stark contrast to the beautiful, random interior. This sharp change in atmosphere is designed to play with the users mood. The bright colours surprise and uplift the user as they move from the purposely drab environment, which incases the installation.

A key characteristic of the installation was the choice of materials. As this exhibition is temporary, it was very important that the materials were reusable and recyclable. With this thinking as a driver for the design, tin foil was chosen for it’s reflective properties and cost effectiveness. Readily available, simple cardboard boxes created the desired, familiar, unassuming facade.

The simplicity of the materials allows the high quality of the luminaires to be seen clearly. Overhead RGB spotlights and low level RGB linears immerse the cube in a full range of colours and reflections.

We are delighted that dpa project Hilton Amsterdam Schiphol Airport has been shortlisted for two awards in the FX Design Awards in the ‘Lighting Design’ and ‘Hotel’ categories.

The awards will be announced on 30th November 2016 so fingers crossed!

We are delighted to share an article that has been published in ‘Lighting’ magazine, regarding dpa project, Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Please click here to view this article in full.

Nick Hoggett has recently been interviewed by darc magazine regarding decorative lighting and architectural lighting – please click here to view this article in full.

Lighting Magazine have published 40 under Forty featuring “forty international lighting design stars of the future”, which celebrates the 40th annual Lighting Design Awards.

We are delighted that Shayne Grist and Rachael Nicholls, Senior Designers at dpa, have been selected in this group.

Please click here to read this article in full.

Johanna Medina, Senior Designer at dpa lighting consultants was invited in May this year to give a lecture at The London College of Fashion. The lecture was designed to help students understand the importance of good lighting design in a retail context, as the students were in the process of designing a pop-up shop for their final end of year project.

Johanna discussed the theory of light and new technologies, as well as Lighting Design as a profession and showed examples of retail projects where spaces have been enhanced by light, created a strong/positive experience for the customer/end user, but at the same time presented the products correctly.

dpa project Ten Trinity Square in London has recently featured in Wallpaper online magazine and The Spaces website. To view these articles please click on the links above.

dpa project Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, has featured in an article about Mecanoo Architects in ‘CLAD mag’ Issue 1, 2016. Please click here to view the article in full.

dpa project The Place, Tainan has featured in the May/June edition of Sleeper Magazine. To read this article in full, please click here.

Iain Carlile has recently contributed to the May/June 2016 edition of Lighting Research and Technology. To read his article in full, please click here.

 

 

Congratulations to Shayne Grist and Rachael Nicholls who were selected as one of the ’40 under 40′ lighting designers in the recent Lighting Design Awards 2016.

We are pleased to share with you an article recently featured in Food & Travel magazine regarding dpa project ‘Masala Zone Soho’. Please click here to view this article in full.

Gary Campbell has recently contributed to an article published in the April edition of FX Magazine about the developments and future trends in retail lighting. Please click here to view the article in full.

We are pleased to share an article about the Waldorf Astoria, Amsterdam published in Architectural Lighting Magazine.

Please click here to view this article in full.

dpa project Hilton Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol has been published in the March/April edition of Sleeper Magazine. Please click here to view this article in full.

We are pleased to share an article that has been published in Sleeper Magazine regarding the Hotel Atlantis, Zurich. Please click here to view this in full.

 

We are delighted to announce that two dpa projects have been shortlisted in the Lux Middle East Awards 2016. Finz, Beach Rotana, Abu Dhabi has been shortlisted for the Hospitality Lighting Project of the Year and Qela Boutique, Doha for the Retail Lighting Project of the Year.

Winners will be announced on 14th April 2016.

Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, a project designed by Michael Curry – Associate and Declan Sullivan – Designer from our Oxfordshire Studio, has featured in the February issue of Mondo Arc. Please click here to view this article in full.

We are pleased to share an article that has been published in Mondo Arc India regarding dpa project Embassy Boulevard, India. This was designed by our London Studio, dpa lighting consultants London.

Please click here to view the article in full.

We are proud to share an article published in Wallpaper Magazine online about dpa project Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, please click here to read this article in full.

We are pleased to share an article published in the January/February edition of darc magazine, regarding a new project recently completed by dpa’s Oxfordshire studio, The Kollázs Brasserie & Bar at The Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, Budapest.

Please click here to view this article in full.

We are very proud to be working with Crystal Cruises International (CCI) and AD Associates on the design of CCI’s new luxury liner, Esprit. Details about this project have been featured in the ‘Drawing Board’ section of Mondo Arc – please click here to view this article in full.

Further details and images of this exciting new project will  be posted in the ‘Leisure’ section of our website very soon.

dpa were recently invited to participate in designing an installation for the inaugural darc Night Awards, held on 24th September 2015.  This was a unique event held to celebrate the darc awards and to also showcase a series of light installations from collaborations between lighting designers and manufacturer partners.

dpa participated by creating a light installation called “Light Tunnel”, which has been featured on the cover page of the latest Mondo Arc India Magazine. Please click here to see the magazine in full.

 

dpa Lighting Consultants were delighted to be involved in creating the Night of Heritage Light on 1st October, and seeing one of these World Heritage sites in a way that nobody has before. This project shows the potential of light to present the world around us in a completely new way, but it also demonstrates the versatility of light and the technology behind it.

Lighting is an art as well as a science, and it’s been really exciting and a lot of fun for us to take part in this event with the SLL. We hope it will inspire the next generation of lighters, and remind others of the huge role lighting plays in their daily lives.

dpa were recently invited to participate in designing an installation for the inaugural darc Night Awards, held on 24th September 2015.  This was a unique event held to celebrate the darc awards and to also showcase a series of light installations from collaborations between lighting designers and manufacturer partners.

“Light is our guide.  Light assists when darkness falls.  But what if light were a barrier?  An obstruction?  Enter the Light Tunnel, where you must find your own way.”

Light Tunnel creates the illusion of a seemingly impassable route by utilising a series of full height lit vertical lines placed carefully so the participant perceives a barrier that prohibits them from travelling through.  The use of mirrors to the ceiling, walls and the edges of the lit profiles provides infinite inter-reflections, extending reality and the sense of obstruction so one is left to discover the pre-defined passage. Dynamic control of the installation alters the appearance of the Light Tunnel, ensuring continuous way finding adjustment amongst the blurred visual boundaries.

The installation used homogenous illuminated double faced tunable white and RGB modules complete with mirrored side facias. Each light element was installed at floor to ceiling within a secondary tunnel structure designed to conceal the existing building fabric with mirrors continuing along the entire ceiling length.

For the Mike Stoane Park Event 2015, Tommaso Gimigliano and Ingo Kalecinski from our dpa London studio, continued their research and experimentations into wearable light, wellbeing and boundaries.

Following their previous creation, the NeckLED, this year the two designers focussed their attention on hands and created two self-illuminated rings that represent a metaphor for a wearable aura of light, able to instil wellbeing and define the boundaries of a personal micro-cosmos of warmth and comfort. Stylistically this exercise concentrates on enhancing the beautiful minimalism and complexity of the lenses used in the lighting industry to collimate the light beam of the LED light sources. The lenses become gigantic precious stones mounted on an essential ring-like brass structure housing the battery and the light source as well.

The creations are titled, Jas & Jo LED in honour of the two models and fellow dpa team members Jasmin and Johanna, who kindly wore them in these photographs and on the evening of the event.

To see more images from this event please click here.

Iain Carlile, has recently written an article for the September/October 2015 edition of The Society of Light and Lighting’s Newsletter. To read this article in full please click here.

Nick Hoggett, Partner of dpa has recently been interviewed by ‘Lighting Illumination in Architecture’ magazine, and shares his thoughts and experience on global architectural lighting design.

Please click here to view the article in full.

illumni lighting design magazine has recently published two dpa projects on it’s website, H&M Dublin – Ireland and The Waldorf Astoria, Ras Al Khaimah.

To read these articles in full please click here.

We are pleased to share an article that has been published on illumni’s online website about dpa project The Langham Hong Kong. Please click here to read the article in full.

 

We are delighted to announce that dpa has been shortlisted for three awards in the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2015.

The Perfectionists’ Café, London Heathrow Terminal 2 has been shortlisted in the ‘Restaurant in a Transport Space’, and Market Kitchen at Le Meridien Hotel Abu Dhabi, and Mint Leaf of London, Dubai have been shortlisted in the ‘Lighting Scheme’ category.

Results will be announced on 1st October 2015.

We are delighted to announce that Richard Bolt has become a Partner of dpa lighting consultants. Richard started with the Practice in 1996 and has been instrumental in the development of dpa over the last 19 years. Richard has successfully led teams working on a wide cross section of projects globally. Projects such as Charterhouse School Chapel Surrey, Hilton Hotel Athens, Belgrave House London, Wolfson Dining Hall at St. Edmund Hall Oxford, ESPA at The Europe Hotel Killarney Ireland, H&M Flagship Store Melbourne and Jesus College Dining Hall Cambridge, reflect the creativity and technical excellence Richard brings to his work.

Nick Hoggett one of the established Partners of the Practice said, “Richard’s development from Architect with no lighting design experience to Partner in the Practice is a proud moment for us. I have worked closely with Richard for the last 19 years and I am really pleased that he has now become a Partner and will continue to be instrumental in the development and future of our business”.

Ingo Kalecinski, Senior Designer in dpa‘s london studio, together with a collective of other designers with a passion for light set up GNI projects, a team committed to creating innovative and experimental installations with light.

As part of the UNESCO International Year of Light 2015, GNI and nine other high profile international artists were invited by Light Collective to create a piece for ‘Lumieres: The Play of Brilliants’, which is currently being held at the Elephant Paname Gallery in Paris.

Please click here to find out more about this installation.

Lux Magazine has recently published an article about Bentley Bistro & Bar, Abu Dhabi – please click here to view this in full.

Lux Magazine has recently published an article about Yuan Chinese Restaurant, Dubai. Please click here to view this article in full.

Iain Carlile has written a technical article for the latest issue of The Society of Light and Lighting’s Newsletter, Volume 8. Issue 2. March/April 2015. Please click here to view this in full.

We are very pleased to announce that dpa project The Perfectionists’ Café by Heston Blumenthal has been awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the recent Lighting Design Awards held on 19th March. Congratulations to Michael Curry and Declan Sullivan who designed this scheme from our Oxfordshire Studio.

Iain Carlile, Associate based in dpa’s London studio has recently published an article in the March/April edition of The Society of Light and Lighting’s Newsletter titled ‘On the light wavelength’.

Please click here to read this article in full.

We are delighted that dpa project, Bridgegate Public Realm, Irvine Bay, Scotland has won the Town Centre Regeneration Award 2015 in the Scottish Property Awards announced on 5th March 2015.

 

Associate, Iain Carlile, has written an article for the February 2015 edition of the Lighting Journal about dpa project, The Mandarin Oriental Hotel du Rhone, Geneva. Please click here to view this in full.

dpa project, The Guildhall Art Gallery in London has undergone a major lighting replacement project in conjunction with a transformational rehang for the first time in 15 years. An article about this project has been published on the BBC News website, please click here to view this link.

We are pleased to share an article published in January’s edition of FX Magazine regarding the newly refurbished Hotel Continental Oslo, designed by RPW Design and dpa lighting consultants.

Please click here to view this article in full.

 

Lux Magazine have recently published an article about Douglas Brennan and David McNeil, please click here to view this in full.

An interview with Nick Hoggett reflecting on 2014 has been published in illumni Magazine.

Please click here to view the article in full.

Tommaso Gimigliano and Ingo Kalecinski of dpa recently entered a luminaire for the Mike Stoane Park Event, which has also featured in this month’s edition of mondo*arc magazine.

Please click here to view the full article.

 

dpa Project, Mint Leaf Dubai has been voted as one of Dubai’s most “beautiful restaurants” in Gulf News “places to go in the UAE”.

Please click here to view the full article.

We are pleased to share a link to Mondo Arc magazine, who have published an article about dpa’s project, the Binary Sculpture at Manyata Embassy Business Park, Bangalore – India.

Please click here to view this article in full.

We are pleased to share a link with you to PLD’s Online Magazine, who have published an article about Qela Boutique, Doha.

Please click here to view the article in full.

We are pleased to share a link with you to PLD’s Online Magazine, who have published an article about the ‘Binary Sculpture’ at the Manyata Embassy Business Park in Bangalore, India.

Please click here to view the article.

 

We are very proud to announce that dpa lighting design has won the Retail Lighting Project of the Year Interior category at this years’ Light Middle East Award. Many congratulations to our London Team who worked on this project.

 

We are pleased to share with you an article that has been written about dpa project Qela, Boutique – Doha in the online magazine Archello.

To view this article please click here.

dpa projects the Perfectionists’ Café – Heston Blumenthal at London Heathrow Terminal 2 and H&M Melbourne, Australia have been shortlisted for an award in the 2015 Lighting Design Awards.

Winners will be announced on 19th March 2015.

 

 

We are delighted to announce that three dpa projects have been shortlisted for the Light Middle East Awards:

Results will be announced on 5th November 2014.

dpa is very proud to have been shortlisted for an award in the forthcoming Oxford Preservation Trust Awards, in the ‘Small Projects category for the lighting design of the Ante Chapel at Merton College, Oxford.

The award winners will be announced on 4th November 2014.

If you are interested in reading more about this project, please click here.

We are delighted to announce that two dpa projects, The Luggage Room at the Marriott Hotel in London and the Hilton Istanbul Bomonti in Turkey have been shorlisted in the forthcoming FX Design Awards.

The results will be announced on 26th November 2014.

 

We are delighted to announce that dpa project, Yuan Chinese Restaurant at the Atlantis Hotel, The Palm in Dubai has won an award in the Commercial Interior Design Awards. This was awarded in the Interior Design of the Year Leisure & Entertainment category.

If you would like to read further details about this project, please click here.

Condé Nast Traveller has published an article in their September issue about dpa project, The Waldorf Astoria in Amsterdam.

To read this article in full please click here.

dpa project The Perfectionists’ Café features in the September edition of Interior Design Today Magazine. Please click here to view the full article.

The Old Dairy has been published in the August edition of illumni (online) magazine.

To view the article in full, please click here.

dpa project Heston Blumenthal’s The Perfectionists’ Café at London Heathrow’s Terminal 2 has featured in illumni magazine.

To view this article in full, please click here.

dpa project, Le Royal Meridien Abu Dhabi has featured in the July edition of illumni (online) magazine.

Please click here to view the article in full.

H&M Melbourne, designed by Richard Bolt and Sotirios Stamatopoulos of dpa lighting consultants, has featured in the July edition of Illumni (online) magazine.

To view this article in full, please click here.

dpa is extremely proud to have worked on the refurbishment of Crystal Cruises International Cruise Ship – Crystal Serenity.

An article about this project has been published in illumni magazine. To view this article in full please click here.

An article about dpa project the Hilton Rotterdam has been published in this month’s edition of Interior Design Today magazine.

If you would like to read this please click here.

dpa lighting consultants are pleased to have had an article published this month in A1 Lighting Magazine regarding their project with Crystal Cruises International.

To view this article please click here.

dpa Designer, Adam Busby was interviewed this month by illumni magazine as part of the ‘illumni People Profile’.

To read Adam’s article in full, please click here.

dpa project L’Espirit du 12ème at the Pullman Hotel in Paris has featured in this months edition of A1 Lighting Magazine.

To view this article please click here.

Gary Campbell has written an article for the May edition of Professional Lighting Design Magazine about ‘Lighting Retail Environments’.

To read this article in full, please click here.

dpa project ‘Guildhall Crypts’ in London has recently featured in the May edition of Architectural SSL Magazine.

To read this article in full, please click here.

Iain Carlile has written an article for the March/April 2014 edition of The Society of Light and Lighting Newsletter on light pollution.

To read this article in full, please click here.

dpa lighting consultants was very proud to have been part of the BBC DIY SOS Big Build project for the Little Miracles charity.

An article about the project has been published in the Feb/March 2014 edition of Mondo ARC.

To read this article in full, please click here.