The grand opening of the new Topshop store on Fifth Avenue in New York made a big splash, attracting the likes of Beyonce and other A-listers to the brand’s first flagship in the U.S. — a 40,000-square-foot space that is only second in size to the British fashion retailer’s Oxford Street, London, store.

“It’s a very cool, contemporary brand, so of course we wanted the lighting to reinforce that fashion-forward sense,” says Kyllene A. Jones, President of Lighting Design Alliance, which designed the lighting for the new store.

LDA had previously used iLight’s Plexineon product series at five other Topshop locations, as well as on other projects. With so many previous successes, the LDA team didn’t hesitate to use the fixtures as key elements in a flagship along one of the most famed retail streets in the world.

A new 40-story residential tower in Houston’s urban core is quickly becoming a local icon. Known by its address — 2929 Weslayan — the LEED Gold-certified structure includes 254 luxury apartment homes and 12,500 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. Designed by Dallas-based RTKL Associates, it incorporates exquisite finishes and stunning architecture while providing panoramic views from spacious balconies.

Target Field Metro Transit Station in downtown Minneapolis represents a whole new concept in public transit.

Located adjacent to Target Field — home to Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins — the open-air, 60-acre multi-modal transportation hub is becoming a communal backyard for the Twin Cities. This urban gathering space uniquely integrates commuter trains, a light rail station, bus service, and parking with green space, retailers, an amphitheater, and more.

The first hint of the unexpected occurs upon entering the space via an underpass. Overhead, the color-changing effects of iLight Hypnotica (RGB) fixtures provide a dynamic display, plus a preview of the sights — and vibe — to come.

Located in the shadow of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Sidney Research Campus is a study in new thinking.

The three-building, 340,000-square-foot campus was formerly a dated-looking home to one large life sciences tenant. But a recent metamorphosis has transformed it into modern office and laboratory space for a variety of smaller biotech companies. To support the tenants’ breakthrough work, the firm Arrowstreet designed the common areas inside and out to be sleek and sophisticated. In one building, that includes using “visual images” lined with iLight Plexineon White fixtures. Installed so they are offset against the ceilings, the fixtures create a 3D effect in the main floor elevator lobby, as well outside the elevators on each of the building’s four floors.

In 1995, Denver-based Blue Moon Brewing Company got its start in the basement of Coors Field. More than 20 years later, the brand is a subsidiary of MillerCoors, but in a nod to its local, craft brewer roots, Blue Moon has opened its own brewery and restaurant in Denver’s River North neighborhood.

From a functional standpoint, the 30,000-square-foot standalone structure now provides what the space in the ballpark could not — dining and event space that also serves as a laboratory for research and development.

Aesthetically speaking, the design team literally looked to the moon for inspiration — conceiving large-scale circular elements to help fill the wide-open interior space.

In Salt Lake City, Utah, the debut of the 2500-seat, $119 million George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater was highly anticipated — bringing to the downtown’s cultural core a much-needed new venue large enough to accommodate even the most ambitious Broadway productions.

The building’s aesthetic is equally impressive. Its exterior has a strong architectural form, with a glass facade that allows light to flow easily both in and out. In fact, the lobby is meant to glow from within. Therefore, finishes are light, with reflection and sparkle wherever possible.

However, as one steps into the auditorium, “day” becomes “night.” The ceiling is like a black night sky, with strands of lights suspended to suggest stars and planets. In contrast, around the perimeter, tiers of seating rise up, like the strata of the actual mountains that provide the city’s backdrop. Those tiers are outlined in iLight Plexineon, which articulates the simple curved forms, catching light around the room.

One Menasha Center, a gleaming new eight-story office building in Menasha, Wisc., was built to be a catalyst for economic growth. The $12.6 million, 115,000-square-foot tower anchors the downtown business district.

Midway through construction, the developer said he wanted to highlight several signature elements of the building, including the “tiara” shape of the roofline, as well as a triangular “slant wall” section of custom metalwork at the base of the building.

The stunning result is that stripes of iLight Plexineon Blue LED fixtures trace the angled roofline, as well as the “slant wall” — giving even greater presence to the tallest building in the immediate vicinity.

The only low-rise office park in downtown Los Angeles was in need of a makeover. Comprised of five concrete buildings, the 270,000-square-foot campus formerly known as Figueroa Courtyard had been built in 1979. But by 2016, its occupancy rate had plummeted. That’s when new developers purchased and renovated the one-of-a-kind property into a destination for tech and creative tenants.

Rebranded “The Park DTLA,” the campus of existing concrete buildings now features more inviting outdoor spaces and renovated interiors. Even each building’s exterior got a boost with bright lines of color painted around the perimeter — one color per building. At night, those lines glow from afar thanks to illumination from strips of red, blue, green, yellow and orange Plexineon LED fixtures that transform what was once a bland concrete jungle.

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