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ILWU

International Labor and Workers Union
Architect: Jaso Ludviksen
Lighting Designer: dePelecyn studio inc.
Photographer: Franco Salmoiraghi
IES Award of Merit for Lighting

Integral to the parabolic staircase, Mexican muralist Pablo O’Higgins created this three-story mural depicting Hawaii’s labor and racial history.

The significance of this project centers on the mural itself, but the artwork is inextricable from its architectural setting.

Each perspective of this 1951 historic landmark was carefully studied and updated with higher performance light fixtures with respect to the period.

The Architect restored and refreshed the interior architecture honoring the mission of the people. We highlighted the script etched into the glass as another layer of light.

Fluorescent light troughs in the floor’s edge were updated to better reveal the colorful mural as the workers used the staircase.

Electric light supplemented the skylight at the top of the stairs where the mural depicts and celebrates the formation of the labor union.

We revealed an original fifties cove buried in a drop ceiling and added a random pattern of lights over the union table. In this photo we wonder if anyone looked up and noticed!?

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