The Seattle Convention Center, formerly the Washington State Convention Center, consists of two main buildings: SCC’s innovative and award-winning Summit building which opened in January 2023; and the existing Arch building that is just one-and-a-half blocks from the Summit building. The addition of the new Summit nearly doubles SCC’s footprint in the busy downtown Seattle area.
The entire SCC design engages the urban form in all of its 15 levels. Each component of the building embraces natural light, and major spaces are connected vertically by two large atriums. The glass-enclosed stair Hillclimb along Pine Street has west-facing views of the infamous Pike Place Market and Puget Sound. The open-air terraces on all levels are designed to accommodate a variety of events that benefit from iconic views of downtown Seattle.
As a gathering space for people of all backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives, the Seattle Convention Center (SCC) indicated the importance of hiring staff and contractors at SCC that represent the entire community as well as its national and international clientele. When construction on the new Summit building began in 2018, SCC set a goal to award $80mm in contracts to women- and minority-owned businesses. By the time Summit opened in January 2023, they had committed nearly $150mm in work scopes to WMBE firms including awarding the lighting design to HLB Lighting Design, the largest women-owned independent architectural lighting design firm in the world, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Denver, Austin, and Dubai.
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A glass-enclosed stair along Pine Street positions the interior circulation patterns at the edge of the building, creating dramatic west-facing views to the Pike Place Market and Puget Sound. The 15 floor building represents a modern touch to the sprawling and popular downtown area that connects Seattle’s most vibrant neighborhoods. Each façade presents a highly interactive, transparent edge, and embraces natural light with two large atriums that are vertically connected.
Both the 3rd and 4th floor accommodates up to 61 meeting rooms ranging from 540 to 6,500 square feet totaling over 92,000 square feet, as reported by the SCC. Wood and wood products are prominently featured throughout the interior of the building and serve as a focal point for the meeting room entrances on multiple floors. From intricately crafted light fixtures to the design of several feature ceilings, there are unique wood elements to experience in numerous locations throughout the project. The use of this treasured regional resource offers a direct connection to the history of the timber industry in the Pacific Northwest.
To highlight this natural resource, the design team selected Targetti’s powerful JEDI recessed linear fixture to deliver a luminous wall wash as guests walk through the entryways to the meetings space on the third and fourth floor of Convention Center. The linear fixture projects a beautiful and subtle wash effect in 3000K on the wood wall with an integral anti-glare louvre with a Wall Wash Optic. The JEDI series provides ideal solutions for both interior and exterior linear lighting that is cool to the touch, RoHS compliant, and drive over rated.
“Critical to the selection of the in-grade JEDI recessed fixture at the meeting room entries was glare control and depth. Limited with critical structural elements in the slab, the recess depth of the fixture needed to be minimal. In addition, the fixture could not distract from convention attendees from entering the room, thus the need for the integral louver”
Michael Lindsey HLB Lighting Design
From the new Summit Convention Center to the historic Camlin Hotel
“For lighting of the historic Camlin façade, the intent was to deliver beautiful design with minimal impact to the façade. A fixture with high center beam candlepower, like the DART MAXI ensured smooth coverage from building base to crown.”
Michael Lindsey Associate Principal, HLB Lighting Design
DART MAXI is the largest version within the DART range and is designed for architectural lighting of large surfaces and maximum light throw, where it is distance essential to the design. As demonstrated on the exterior of the exterior façade of the Camlin Hotel across from the Convention Center, the DART MAXI with the NSP optic delivers a clean, precise 5º beam to deliver a focused spot of light on the building's façade of patterned red bricks laced and banded with terra-cotta tile refinements. The NSP optic uses a parabolic reflector which collimates the beam and emits a defined, precise cone of light to focus on keys architectural details such as the expansive columns on this historic building.
The Camlin Hotel, an iconic high-rise structure located in downtown Seattle, is a national historic landmark. The ninety-one-year-old hotel, with its façade of patterned red bricks laced and banded with terra-cotta tile refinements, stands with its enduring charms before a spreading cluster of nearby high-rises. To accommodate the unique installation on the exterior of the building, Targetti worked with the design team at HLB to create a custom mounting bracket for the DART Maxi and an added snoot accessory to precisely aim the light projection.
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