Lighting for Offices

Office lighting demands solutions that deliver the light levels needed in a highly efficient way, while providing glare and shadow free environments. The office environment balances the need for efficiency and productivity with the need for pleasant and comfortable work spaces.

Litecontrol's pendant mounted fixtures provide many opportunities to balance the efficiency of direct lighting with the qualitative benefits of indirect lighting. Our popular perimeter and cove systems, allow the design team to cleanly integrate the lighting into the architecture and provide office workers with pleasant, spacious environments. When recessed lighting is called for, our Mod and Litewave families can meet any need.

Nixon Art Associates, Inc.

Based in downtown Chicago, Nixon Art Associates offers a full range of curatorial services. The firm specializes in art acquisition, documentation, framing, installation, liquidation, valuation, restoration, appraisal, exhibition and archiving.

Open office and conference room

This downtown Chicago office was completely renovated in spring of 2011. The space uses the 82M from the Latitude line in the open office spaces. The 82M is also used in tandem with the Wall/Wash 4400 in the agency’s conference rooms.

USGBC Headquarters

In 2009, The US Green Building Council's Washington, DC based headquarters became the first space to achieve LEED Platinum under the Commercial Interiors (CI) rating system. Litecontrol played a large part in this success by providing high efficiency/low energy lighting to the project.

Alberici Corporate Headquarters

Completed in December 2004, the new headquarters for one of St. Louis' oldest and largest construction companies adapted and repurposed an existing manufacturing plant.

This is your Brain on Lighting

May 5, 2011 by Dr. Robert Davis

Stimulus – Response. Lighting practitioners work hard at getting the stimulus right to attain a desired response. But what about those responses to lighting that go beyond considerations of task performance? full post

LEDs versus Fluorescent both have their place

May 20, 2011 by Jeremy Yon

We've been seeing a rising tide of push-back on LEDs, and Elizabeth Donoff's commentary, It's What You Say and How You Say It, in the April-May 2011 issue of Architectural Lighting has done a great job of explaining why. full post

Light and Perception: "The Flynn Stuff"

January 5, 2012 by Dr. Robert Davis

The pioneering research of John Flynn in the 1970s helped to demonstrate that lighting serves a more important function than simply getting enough light onto a desktop, and that a holistic view of lighting is needed that acknowledges the impact of lighting on psychological comfort and well-being. full post

Nixon Art Associates chooses the sleek artistic style of VIVID

July 19, 2011 by Stephanie Seal

VIVID is right at home among works of art in the architecturally rich city of Chicago. full post

Lighting and wayfinding

August 25, 2011 by Dr. Robert Davis

Lighting of key vertical surfaces can be an effective tool for helping people to navigate through public spaces. This post and our new video clip explain how. full post