HYATT HERALD SQUARE LOBBY, NEW YORK

摘要

For the renovation of the Hyatt Herald Square lobby, PHT Lighting Design has deftly created the illusion of daylight with little more than glass block and tunable white LEDs. The reception desk and lounge was severed from the daylight-filled entrance by an 18-foot-wide elevator core in the middle of the lobby's 32-foot-wide floor plate. To stitch the two spaces back together, PHT founder Peiheng Tsai designed a custom clerestory light box that wraps around the perimeter of the lounge and gives hotel guests the impression of natural light. Built out of 4-inch-thick industrial glass block and uplit with dynamic white LEDs, the system transitions from 5000K during the day to 3500K at dusk and then to 2700K at night. Thanks to an astronomical clock, the clerestory "windows" even respond to seasonal changes in the times of sunrise and sunset.