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“MT Elektro” Ltd. with the project “Verkh-Izhevski Steel Factory - The factory cooling towers” wins the Russian lighting design contest 2009
From November 10th to 13th in Moscow at Expocenter was held the lighting design contest “Russian lighting design – 2009”. This contest is the successful tradition of the “Interlight Moscow” exhibition. Organizers of this contest are Russian lighting research Institute (VNISI), Ost-West Partners and Russian Designer’s Association.
The contest consist of four categories: the best design of Outdoor lighting, the best design of Indoor lighting, the best design of lighting device and the best student design project.
There were more than 50 projects from 17 various Russian companies in the contest of this year. The jury consisted of President of Russian Designer’s Association Jury Nazarov, General Director of Russian lighting research Institute Anna Shakhparunyants. The chairman of the jury was the President of the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association (PLDA) - Martin Lupton.
Martin Lupton: “Lighting design in Russia became the real discovery for me. It was very difficult decision for me to choose a winner. There was a really wide variety of projects in the competition and the final three were of particularly high quality. I was especially impressed by the student projects, which showed great potential and a really high level of conceptual thought. I am sure that it is very strong basis for Russian lighting design and they future is very bright!”
Prize places were distributed as follows:
The 1st place in the category “The best design of outdoor lighting” went to “MT Elektro” Ltd. with the project “Verkh-Izhevski Steel Factory - The factory cooling towers”. The 2nd place went to Spb. GUP “Lensvet” with the project “Architectural-artistic illumination of Petropavlovsk fortress”. The 3rd place went to “MT Elektro” Ltd. with the project “Office building “Nakhimov Plaza”.
The 1st place in the category «The best design of indoor lighting» went to «Tochka opory» Ltd. with the project «GUP «Sankt-Petersburg canal» Multimedia composition «The Universe of water», the 2nd place went to «Centre of Technical Light» with the project «The shop «Snow queen», and the 3rd place went to «Tochka opory» Ltd. with the project «Automobile sales centre Mercedes Benz. MB-Belyaevo».
In the category «The best student design project» in “the sphere of lighting design» the 1st place has been divided between two competitive works: «Design-project of art-objects layout and arrangements of their illumination in Main Botanical Garden named after Tzizin N.V.” (Т.Bulba, I.Shumikhin, К.Sedakova, National Institute of Design) and «Illumination system for public place «Shone Pills» (I.Butovich, National Institute of Design»). The 2nd place was awarded to students of Moscow Architectural Institute А.Leonov and К. Kushteiko for the work «Domestic building on Bolshaya Tulskaya». The 3rd place also was also divided between two competitive works: «the Yearly essay Conception project of «Illumination of park» (Т. Pavluk, Moscow Architectural Institute) and “Decorative-light design of the central lane (in commemoration of the 70 anniversary of All-Russian Exhibition Center” (Kuznetsov R, Bukanova A., Volkov A., Afanaseva O., Afanaseva A., Krasko M., Churakova M., Shanina M., Usolkin D., Turina E., the National Institute of Design).