Congratulations to BKU Alumnus Clifton Manahan of Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design. He is this month’s Best Shot winner for supplying this beautiful photograph of HLB’s lighting design work at Tongva Park, located just east of the Santa Monica Pier in Southern California.

Photo Credit: Clifton Manahan
Specifier: HLB Los Angeles Office
Landscape Architect: James Corner Field Operations
Sales Representative: Joseph Yam and Mark Duff at Prudential Lighting

Once a very large parking lot, the six-acre Tongva Park is the collaborative result of community-based research, planning and design by Landscape Architect James Corner Field Operations, HLB Lighting Design, the City of Santa Monica, its residents, and many others.

The park includes a wide range of multi-use areas including a garden walk with meandering paths, public art spaces, water features and a play area for children that incorporates a water activity splash pad.

Gracefully transformative lighting design provided by HLB provides both safety and beauty as 30 of B-K Lighting’s Denali Series™ flood lights, and a whopping 100 HP2 Series™ recessed ground fixtures highlight the artistic and unique architectural features of the park. “BK fixtures were chosen for LED color quality and consistency, fixture longevity and flexibility in aiming and optics,” Manahan said.

The picture provided by Manahan is a close-up of one of these unique features that also serves as a seating area. B-K Lighting’s HP2’s provide the uplighting for this bougainvillea-laced green wall rooted on the park side just behind. The sitting wall is actually located on the exterior edge of the park which is fixed at the corner of Ocean and Colorado Avenues, barely southeast of the infamous neon Santa Monica Pier gateway which is visited by millions each year.

Thank you to Clifton Manahan for providing us with yet another opportunity to display the stunning work you all do with our fixtures!

Do you have a “Best Shot project application displaying a B-K Lighting luminaire? We just might have $100 for you too!

It doesn’t matter if you are a professional photographer or just someone with a keen eye for project applications. This is an ongoing competition. If your image is selected and used in our Starlines newsletter, we will send you a $100 gift card! Click here for more information or to submit your own photo.