Prize(s) Winners in Retails Lighting Design
Lighting Design/Product Company TM Light
Lead Designers B. Alex Miller
Architecture Company Leong Leong
Client The Travel Agency
Photo Credits Will Ellis
Completion Date 2024
Project Location 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Entry DescriptionThe Travel Agency is the first recreational dispensary brand in NYC that opened three stores over the past two years, one in Union Square, 5th Avenue, and Flatbush. The overall lighting approach enhances each store’s spatial character by embedding itself within the architecture; emanating or “leaking” from reveals, gaps, and openings that are pushed, peeled, or pulled from the surfaces and geometries of the space. Light sources are concealed from view, with only their resultant wall wash of light left as evidence of its presence in the space. Product cases (which were designed as well as fabricated by the lighting designer) and immersive rooms at the back of each store are color-customizable to allow for saturated, curated experiences
For the 5th Avenue location, the architecture is characterized by an inverted vaulted ceiling, where the central ceiling surface dips downwards, creating a unique spatial "belly." Light is subtly integrated along the upturned edges of this ceiling, leaking softly from a sloped reveal between the vertical walls and the hovering ceiling.
