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Tabor Center
Denver, Colorado
Tabor Center
Designer
Anastasia Michael
Client
Location
Denver, Colorado
Date of completion
May 2022
Designer
Tabor Center’s interior design project manager, Anastasia Michael, works for Denver-based Waring Associates.
Alcon 12100-20-R Continuum 20 Series LED Linear Recessed
The specification grade Continuum 20 Architectural Direct LED Linear Recessed Lighting delivers continuous clean lines and clear light to commercial, hospitality and residential interior lighting applications.
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Design Goal
Tabor Center promises tenants ample natural light, access to conference facilities, an athletic club, convenience store, and a hotel. The Commons is Tabor's recently renovated tenant lounge—the lounge includes a kitchen—as well as workspace and conference rooms.
The design goal was to light the center’s work environment while enticing tenant workers with a hospitable, front office flair.
Browse Tabor Center—which affords a view of Denver’s skyline, the Platte River and the Rocky Mountains—at: taborcenterdenver.com/overview
What was the primary lighting design challenge?
To fit linear light between ceiling wood slats in the conference room.
Alcon 14150 Center Basket LED Troffer | Field-Selectable Wattage and Color Temperature
The specification grade Alcon Lighting 14150 Architectural Color Temperature-Selectable Wattage-Selectable LED Lay-In Troffer Light Fixture delivers a sleek, low profile, low glare, direct ambient light perfect for today’s commercial buildings.
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Did lighting further the project goal?
Yes. Anastasia, who worked on budget while striving to meet the client’s design needs, credits Alcon Lighting. She explained that Alcon Lighting’s surface lighting allowed her to build to architectural lighting specifications without incurring exorbitant cost.
Two foundational principles of lighting design guide most designers and architects—the qualitative (or aesthetic) aspect and the quantitative (or engineering) aspect of light. Architectural lighting is concerned with the qualitative lighting experience. The qualitative pertains to ensuring that a space has a pleasing ambience. It is the artistic interspersing of shadows and light, darkness and illumination, highlighting certain figures and form.
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