Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Lighting Design/Product Company GMLD
Lead Designers Granville McAnear
Other Designer's names Angela Green
Architecture Company WATG
Interior Design Company Studio Munge
Client Eagle Four Partners
Photo Credits Granville McAnear
Completion Date December 2023
Project Location Newport Beach, CA
Entry DescriptionThe Pendry in Newport Beach is one of the first few properties of the new Montage brand. The architectural lighting celebrates the rich interiors and highlights the artwork, shelving and displays. Lush interior planting is a keystone of the Pendry brand and accenting it throughout was important design criteria. The evening ambience begins dimming and warming to a soft, golden incandescence that transforms the spaces into luxurious and sexy venues and circulation. The existing building’s transformation into the project’s vision was challenging at best. There were five different disconnected dimming systems for various areas of the building that had to be calibrated and manipulated to function as one. A centralized dimming system is employed to carefully balance the multiple sources, effects and features with automatic astronomical control from daytime, evening and throughout the night.All sources used are high-efficiency, warm-dim LED. The lighting design met Title 24 requirements. While value engineering was minimal, some specification substitutions were made by ownership to deliver the project on budget. As this project was a renovation of a former Four Seasons Hotel, almost daily coordination with the site was required for a successful installation and control system updates.
