Architectural Design

To mark 100 years and celebrate the holiday season, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)’s Metro-North Railroad subsidiary and partner Toshiba contracted with designer Michiru Tanaka and Babylon, NY-based Bestek Lighting & Staging, Inc. to add a festive seasonal touch to the west side windows of the Main Concourse at Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Bestek handled engineering, custom hardware, installation labor, programming, technical direction and logistics for the project, and the company’s president, Van Allen Rice, served as project manager onsite.

LD Iain Reed Turns Sydney Icon into Interactive Artwork
Vivid is the winter festival of light, music and ideas, held around the harbor in Sydney, Australia; for 2013, it ran from May 24-June 10. Winter down under is surprisingly scheduled when it is summer in the USA. Vivid came about in the dying days of the previous state government, and was such a success that it has returned each year, bigger and brighter. It brings people to the city in the down season.