Conceptual Lighting for Rockefeller Park
and the Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland Cultural Gardens are one of a kind cultural exhibit that should be celebrated with light, to provide viewing enjoyment and safety for those passing by at dusk or throughout the evening. Improved illumination of the footpaths, and grounds of each of the gardens would be provided by unobtrusive ground mounted luminaries for illumination at the footpath level. Light bollards with directional optics would provide illumination at strategic points within the gardens, to better define direction or changes in elevations. The various sculptures and architectural features of the Gardens will be illuminated with narrow beam ground mounted luminaries.

Presently HID Floodlights on either side of Martin Luther King Boulevard illuminate each of the four Charles F. Schweinfurth stone arched bridges carrying Superior Avenue, St. Clair Avenue, Wade Park Avenue and the Conrail tracks to the north over Martin Luther King Drive

Advances in luminaire and lamp technology will allow for the illumination of these bridges to be dramatically improved. Greater uniformity of illumination with more complete coverage of the facades surfaces and less trespass into driver’s field of view. To fully realize the impact of the lighting improvements the stone facades will be cleaned and repaired where necessary.

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