Lighting Award For The Waterfront

11 April 2002

The new promenade lighting on Wellington's Waterfront along Taranaki Wharf has won a National Premier Award, granted by the Illumination Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand. The award was made to designers Athfield Architects Limited and Aesthetic Lighting Limited who supplied the lighting for the owners, Wellington Waterfront Limited.

The Lighting Design Awards are made in recognition of lighting installations that make a significant contribution towards advancing the art and science of illumination.  

The principles behind the lighting design for the Taranaki Wharf project were to create a new and unique, publicly accessible, safe night-time environment, mark and signify elements along the way and to highlight the rhythms and changes in pace down the promenade. The lighting is integrated with the architectural and landscape features, is energy efficient utilising lamps with long lives designed and built to last in a marine environment.

'Feedback generally about the lighting effects in this area has been very good, people seem to particularly like the new round bollards that are internally lit and the blue light that underpins the new bridge'. says David Gascoigne, Chairman of Wellington Waterfront Limited.  

'Everyone involved in the Taranaki Wharf redevelopment was concerned to see that the wharf improvements are attractive, innovative and of high quality, so it is very pleasing for the work to be formally recognised in this way. We also understand that the promenade lighting is now being considered for an Australasian award'. added Mr Gascoigne.

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