About the awards
The [d]arc awards is a unique concept utilising arc and darc magazines’ reputation as being the most widely read and respected lighting design publications in the world. In collaboration with creative consultants Light Collective, we have created a unique opportunity to get every practice involved in the awards process.
Anyone can enter (lighting designers, architects, interior designers or manufacturers), but here’s the exciting bit – once the shortlist has been chosen by an international jury of lighting designers, independent lighting designers, architects and interior designers will be invited to vote on their favourite projects and products making this the only truly peer-to-peer lighting design awards in the world.
All projects and the companies who have submitted them, will be present on the awards website so that, over time, it becomes a comprehensive online lighting design resource that can be used by designers and clients for inspiration.
BEST EXTERIOR LIGHTING SCHEME
STRUCTURES LOW BUDGET
Any type of exterior lighting scheme involving a structure such as building façades, monuments, sports stadia, bridges etc. Specified luminaires can be architectural and decorative. The total value of the luminaires must be less than £30,000 in value.
Project Rays of Light
Location Taguig City, Chile
Lighting Design Christine Sicangco Lighting Design, Philippines
Architect Christine Rchitects, Philippines Client JPA
Lighting Suppliers Orluna, Linea Light Photography Ed Simon
The RAYS OF LIGHT PROJECT is a family-owned Columbarium that houses approximately 200 vaults of funerary urns. It is not just a resting place but a memorial where families come together to honor their loved ones for generations.
The lighting brief for this Columbarium was to reflect the family’s core values and legacy. Values of integrity, stability, and restraint, among others. Soft, solemn, quiet, and elegant lighting subtly conveys this message.
Project Tayap
Location Patag, Philippines
Lighting Design Christine Sicangco Lighting Design, Philippines
Architect Arch. Tonyboy Legaspi, Philippines Client TBE
Lighting Suppliers Verbatim Photography Ed Simon
The TAYAP is private mountain place that is a receiving/entertaining area which was built from the owner’s collection of old hard wood and antique doors and windows as a place to gather and generate ideas on what to do with the piece of land that he bought in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
The owner had specific instructions not to cut the wood as this structure was to be a temporary installation, one that can be moved in another section of this vast land if he so desires in the future and even dismantled should he change his mind.
BEST INTERIOR LIGHTING SCHEME
PLACES LOW BUDGET
Any type of indoor lighting scheme. Can include commercial, retail or residential venues. Specified luminaires can be architectural and decorative. The total value of the luminaires must be less than £30,000 in value.
Project Rays of Light
Location Taguig City, Chile
Lighting Design Christine Sicangco Lighting Design, Philippines
Architect Christine Rchitects, Philippines Client JPA
Lighting Suppliers Orluna, Linea Light Photography Ed Simon
The RAYS OF LIGHT PROJECT is a family-owned Columbarium that houses approximately 200 vaults of funerary urns. It is not just a resting place but a memorial where families come together to honor their loved ones for generations.
The lighting brief for this Columbarium was to reflect the family’s core values and legacy. Values of integrity, stability, and restraint, among others. Soft, solemn, quiet, and elegant lighting subtly conveys this message.
Project Cafe Bobs Flagship Store
Location Bacolod City, Philippines
Lighting Design Christine Sicangco Lighting Design, Philippines
Architect Larawan Ink, Philippines Client Trima Ventures
Lighting Suppliers Endo Lighting Photography Ed Simon
Café Bobs is an offshoot of Bobs Restaurant, a 58-year-old family restaurant in Bacolod City, Philippines. Bobs Restaurant is a straightforward family restaurant, unlike Cafe Bobs, which is a unique café/restaurant as it caters to different group ages and has something for everyone. The whole place houses a deli, a bakery with stone-fired pizza and gelato bar, a wine room, a cigar room, function rooms, outdoor café seating on each floor, and even a roof deck bar that at times converted into a sports bar.
Project Rombohan
Location Bacolod City, Philippines
Lighting Design Christine Sicangco Lighting Design, Philippines
Architect Arch. Daniel Lim, Philippines
Interior Design Cacar Lizares Interior Design Studio, Philippines Client Andy and Janette Gonzaga
Lighting Suppliers Neko, Linea Light, Endo Photography Ed Simon
Rombohan in the Ilonggo dialect means “a place to gather, to bring family and friends together for a meal and celebration.
Coming from a large and very close-knit family, it was appropriate that Andy & Jannette Gonzaga decided to build this “Rombohan” to accommodate their growing family. This Rombohan was an addition that became an extension of their old houses and was connected by the surrounding gardens.
Being a typical large Filipino family who loves to gather around food, whether it is to eat, cook or entertain, the Gonzagas needed a place to make this all happen.
BEST LANDSCAPE LIGHTING SCHEME
SPACES LOW BUDGET
Any type of urban or rural landscape lighting scheme involving an area such as parks, plazas, streets etc. Can include commercial, retail or residential venues. Specified luminaires can be architectural and decorative. The total value of the luminaires must be less than £30,000 in value.
Project Rockwell Balmori
Location Makati City, Philippines
Lighting Design Christine Sicangco Lighting Design, Philippines
Architect PRSP, Philippines
Additional Design Rockwell Land Landscape Design Division Client Rockwell Land Corporation
Lighting Suppliers Endo Lighting, KLEWE Solar Lights Photography Ed Simon
Right in the heart of the of the urban jungle of the Makati Central Business district in Manila and within the Balmori Suites (a luxury residential enclave) at the 7th Floor is a multi-events place that is surrounded by landscape that is actually a nursery for the entire Rockwell Powerplant Development.
Flanked on all sides by tall concrete buildings the 7th floor becomes an oasis among the glass and steel that surrounds it.