The Acropolis lights up the [d]arc Awards 2020
The new lighting of the Acropolis, a project donated and realized by Onassis Foundation, won three awards in this year’s Oscars of Lighting, among them the “best of the best lighting design” [d]arc Award 2020.
Photo: Stelios Tzetzias
On Friday, April 29, 2021 the [d]arc Awards ceremony was held online, recognizing this year’ s best lighting design projects and products. The awards are given annually to lighting studios around the world. This year, the “Acropolis of Athens and Monuments” project won three prestigious awards: The Best Exterior Lighting Scheme on the Structures category: High Budget of the [d]arc Awards 2020, the Best Creative Lighting Event Award 2020 and the Best of the Best Lighting Design Award 2020. About the last one, it is an award given to the project that received the most amount votes out of all project category winners. This year, a massive 14,000 votes were cast in total and the Acropolis lighting received the majority of them.
For the first time, a Greek project receives the Best of the Best Lighting Design [d]arc Award
The Awards
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It is not our artificial light that illuminates the Acropolis, it is its own internal light of the Monument, that brightens the ones who want or are ready to see their own truth. And that light cannot be other than white!
Eleftheria Deko
A few words about the [d]arc Awards 2020
Every year, the design community join forces to support the only peer-to peer lighting design awards in the world. The 2020 entries came from all over the world, with 40 countries represented. This year, 297 project entries and 108 product entries were submitted. The shortlist is been chosen by an international jury of independent architectural lighting designers, each of the 1,600 lighting design practices as well as architects and interior designers are invited to vote on their favorite projects.
A few words about the Acropolis Lighting
On Wednesday, September 30, 2020 the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports presented the new Acropolis illuminations, a project commissioned, donated and realized by the Onassis Foundation. Following an open call, the project studies and designs were undertaken by the internationally acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning lighting designer Eleftheria Deko. In a time filled with darkness and uncertainty, all we can do is seek out the light.
