During the renovation at 1155 Avenue of the Americas in NYC, STUDIOS Architecture and CBBLD transformed an undistinguished stretch of pedestrian sidewalk into an open plan outdoor room. A wash of light from the down-beaming Astro 2 post-top luminaires creates soft, even lighting on the ground plane. These 20-ft. tall fixtures from Selux have a pair of 102W heads, rated at 3000K.
“It’s an aluminum tapered pole,” says Alexis Arnoldi, senior associate at CBBLD. “The silver finish was selected to match other metal finishes on the project. We wanted the poles to be pedestrian scale and had initially targeted 16 ft. However, the Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) lighting requirements state that 2fc are necessary at the curb line. We could not place a light fixture beyond our property line, so, in order to get the throw of light we needed to the curb, the fixture height was increased to 20 ft.”
For more information about the Astro 2 luminaires, visit the product webpage.
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