Light is an essential element for urban environment, it also represents the culture and image of a city. In order to emphasize on the importance of urban lighting plan, LUCI started running the annual city.people.light awards in conjunction with Philips Co. in 2003. The 2013 award is the 10^th anniversary of this award so we compile all the winners in its history for you to take a quick and amusing glance.

Winners of 2011 (LINK)

First Prize: Valladolid, Spain

The ‘Rivers of Light’ project connects different areas of the center of Valladolid, creating a new night vision of the city, which has had a big impact on citizens. Valladolid’s most important historic monuments and squares have been brought to life with light: some dressed in a new, more comfortable and elegant light, whilst others have suddenly emerged from the darkness.

Second Prize: Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Third Prize: Kanazawa, Japan

Special Mention prize : Le Havre, France

Winners of 2012 (LINK)

First Prize: Lyon, France

The winning project, entitled “Le mur vegetalise de l’annonciade” combines lighting, vegetation and paintings to create an interior, living-room type atmosphere in the street that is soft and warm. It is intended to bring out the intimate nature of the area in Lyon known as La Croix Rousse, while offering local residents the opportunity to contemplate the paintings.

Second Prize: Stavanger, Norway

The lighting design for Stavanger cathedral, Byparken and Kongsgárd illuminates the city’s cathedral and the adjacent areas of the Kongsgárd High School, Byparken (the city park) and Dornkirkeplassen. Designed by Vladan Paunovic of Ramboll Denmark, the project allowed the serenity of the place to be maintained with a well balanced lighting design.

Third Prize: Genk, Belgium

Based on the foundations of the coal mine of Winterlag, C-MINE aims to be a meeting place for people who want to be stimulated by a wide range of diverse forms of creativity and creative innovation, both professionally or as entertainment. C-MINE is a stylish and charismatic fusion of serious industrial heritage dating back two centuries – with much of the mine’s historic machinery preserved and still intact, such as the two massive mine shaft towers. The lighting concept, designed by Luc Peumans, enabled the preservation of the story of the mine with light and created a new destination out of an old industry park.

Special Mention Prize: Moscow, Russia

Special Mention Prize: Taipei, Taiwan

Winners of People’s Choice Award (LINK)

To celebrate the 10^th anniversary of city.people.light awards, Philips and LUCI held an online voting competition for netizens to choose their favorite urban lighting project of each year from 2003 to 2011. The winners are as following.

2003: Cergy, France

2004: Ghent, Belgium

2005: Cologne, Germany

2006: Vienna, Austria

2007: Heinsberg, Germany

2008: Seoul, South Korea

2009: Jyvaskyla, Finland

2010: Lucerne, Switzerland

2011: Valladolid, Spain

The Winners from 2003 to 2010

2009: Jyväskylä (Finland), Hangzhou (China) and Lachen (Switzerland).

2008 : Seoul (South Korea), Riga (Latvia) and St Gallen (Switzerland).

2007: Heinsberg (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland) and Sao Carlo (Brazil).

2006: Vienna (Austria), Leipzig (Germany) and San Luis Potosi (Mexico).

2005: Cologne (Germany), Tampere (Finland) and Cannes (France).

2004: Gent (Belgium), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Caltagirone (Sicily).

2003: Cergy (France), Magdeburg (Germany) and Zeven (Germany).

(Content & Photo Sources: LUCI / Philips)