SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Costa Mesa, CA

This new performing arts center is truly a design of the 21st century, owing to a lighting scheme that uses the most advance metal halide and LED sources and fixtures to create an arts venue that uses even less energy than allowed by California’s challenging Title 24 energy codes.

Given the low prescribed wattage allowances, monumental spaces, very tight architectural constraints, and complex designs of non-repetitive compound curves a number of solutions would have been impossible without tapping these new technologies and incorporating them into innovative details and custom designed LED fixtures.

Awards

  • Lumen Award of Excellence

  • A/L Light & Architecture Outstanding Achievement Award

  • IIDA Edwin F. Guth Award of Excellence

  • IALD Award of Merit

ARCHITECT

Pelli Clarke & Partners / Gruen Associates

PHOTO CREDIT

Lawrence Anderson Photography, Inc.; RMA Architectural Photographers