Mid Campus Center, Washington University School of Medicine and BJC Healthcare

This new 500,000 square foot office tower was designed on a fast-paced design-assist schedule. Its urban site is situated between a MetroLink station to the south, St. Louis College of Pharmacy to the north, Maya Lin’s Hope Plaza to the west, and an existing parking garage to the east. Working closely with the architect Christner, Inc., ELD provided all lighting design for the project, including interior, exterior, façade, parking garage, building link system, and Children’s Place streetscape lighting. The budget was very tight, so lighting and controls material costs were kept well under $4 per square foot.
This was the first all-LED building for the client. It was also their first use of a low-voltage distributed lighting control system. The building achieved LEED Gold certification. The user experience begins on the exterior, where street lamps are coordinated with the building module to establish a lighting rhythm that relates to the building and assists with wayfinding. Interior lighting locations and orientations were carefully selected and coordinated with the view from the exterior in mind. For cost and energy savings, a task-ambient solution is employed for interior offices, and simple lines of light illuminate vertical wall planes to increase apparent brightness