Focus Lighting is a New York City based Architectural Lighting Design Firm founded by Paul Gregory in 1986. Focus Lighting designed the Entel Tower in Santiago, Chile, which was the first automated color-changing exterior lighting display in the world and the first building to have an automatic color-change at night. The 40-story tower opened in October 1994.. Focus Lighting also designed the Times Square Ball for its 100th and 101st anniversary.

History

Previous works include the lighting design for the 100th and 101st anniversaries of the Times Square Ball, Le Cirque

Le Cirque

Le Cirque is a French restaurant in Manhattan owned and operated by Sirio Maccioni. It first opened at the Mayfair Hotel in 1974. It closed and reopened as Le Cirque 2000 at the Palace Hotel in 1997. The latest installation of Le Cirque opened in 2006 in the Bloomberg Tower building at One Beacon...

 Restaurant (NYC) , Royalton Hotel

Royalton Hotel

The Royalton Hotel is a hotel in at 44 West 44th Street, midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA.The building was built in 1898 as the exclusive residential Hotel Royalton. The firm of Rossiter & Wright served as the architects, and the contractor was E. F. Dodson & Company...

, Knoll

Knoll (company)

Knoll is a design firm that produces office systems, seating, files and storage, tables and desks, textiles , and accessories for office and for the home. The company also manufactures furniture for the home by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll , Frank Gehry, Maya Lin and...

 Offices, Mondrian Hotel (Miami), and the Marcus Center

Marcus Center

The Marcus Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It serves as the home of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Ballet, First Stage Children's Theater and other local arts organizations...

for the Performing Arts (Milwaukee) .

Awards

1998
Lumen Award of Merit - Best Cellars
Lumen Award, Waterbury Award of Excellence - Entel Tower
Lumen Award of Merit - ID Magazine Exhibit
Lumen Award - Mohegan Casino Phase I

2002
Lumen Award, Edwin F. Guth Award of Excellence - Mall at Millenia
Lumen Award Citation - Town Restaurant

2003
Lumen Feltman Award - Carlos Miele

2004
Lumen Award of Merit - FAO Schwarz
Lumen Award of Merit - Powder Deep Studios
Lumen Award of Excellence - Teatro Bar

2005
Lumen Award of Excellence - Semiramis Hotel

2008
Lumen Award, Citation for Increasing Public Awareness of LEDs - Times Square Ball

2009
Lumen Award – Royalton Hotel
Lumen Award - Mohegan Sun
Lumen Award, Citation for LED courtyard - Rock Sugar