WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering, science and infrastructure solutions firms, uniting its multidisciplinary expertise to shape communities to advance humanity. From local beginnings to a globe-spanning presence today, WSP operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 83,000 professionals, known as Visioneers. Together they pioneer solutions and deliver innovative projects in the transportation, infrastructure, environment, building, energy, water, and mining and metals sectors. WSP is publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:WSP).
Focus Lighting is an award-winning professional architectural lighting design firm located in New York City. Since 1987, we have continually created unique and successful lighting design solutions for projects of all sizes including hotels, resorts, retail, restaurants, museums, nightclubs, offices, and private residences around the world.
The Focus Lighting team’s creative process is informed by a combined experience in theater, architecture, and design. Together the team generates projects that create an emotion with light and engages its audience. We believe that light and its perception within an environment are essential to the human experience. Light brings a sense of drama, composition, balance, and excitement to each of our projects.
dpa lighting consultants greatly values its history but concentrates on the present and future. The Practice was established in 1958 by Architect Derek Phillips, who qualified at Liverpool University and then went on to complete a master’s course in Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Derek met and worked with many important Architects who greatly influenced his pioneering activities as an independent Lighting Consultant. His meetings with Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier were particularly inspirational.
The Practice now has offices in Japan, the UAE and the UK and a substantial team who focus their thoughts on all aspects of lighting, both natural and artificial. The scale of our Practice and close working relationship between our studios means we have been able to recruit from a wide variety of backgrounds. This broad skill base that now focus solely on architectural lighting design provides dpa with an unparalleled human resource and knowledge to deal with the varying challenges each project demands.
dpa has always been at the forefront of education about all aspects of the lit environment and this continues today. Our desire and appetite to continually learn and share information has always been important, but perhaps with the current changes in light source technology and environmental legislation is more important than ever. We have different teams constantly monitoring and discussing all aspects of the built environment and lighting technology, be it LED light sources or digital controls and sharing this information with everyone in the Practice.
Our history and completed projects, which number over 7,500 in 80 different countries, provide us with an incredible wealth of experience, while our appetite for the present and future ensures that dpa are at the leading edge of lighting design, pushing creative and technical boundaries while always protecting our Clients' interest.