2025 IESNYC Lumen Awards Project Eligibility

The Lumen Awards are open to any interior or exterior architectural lighting design projects completed within two years’ time of the submission deadline of January 10, 2025. Projects may be re-submitted during the years projects are eligible.

Anyone can enter a project for consideration, but wherever possible, we require the lighting designer responsible for the lighting scheme be credited.

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Eligible projects must be designed by a New York City metropolitan area* based designer(s) for projects located anywhere in the world.
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Projects must be located in the New York City metropolitan area* regardless of the location of the designer(s). 

* NYC metro area consists of the five boroughs of New York City and the NY counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk as well as Fairfield, CT and the Northern NJ counties of Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Hudson and Union.