This has got to be our BIGGEST lighting design project to date. We were the lead lighting designers for the 3 million square foot American Dream shopping centre in East Rutherford NJ. This is the second largest shopping centre in America, and we put a LOT of lights into it! We have at long last added The American Dream shopping centre to our website – you can check it out in our portfolio now.

Our team’s scope included all front of house public spaces including concourses, washrooms, courts and lobbies. We illuminated an NHL size rink! There are so many miles of cove, and also an indoor ski hill, waterpark, outdoor ferris wheel, aquarium, amusement park and over 350 retailers including a luxury row called “The Avenue” all in our project scope. It was an 8 year project, with almost 2 years of biweekly travel to the site. We worked closely with the talented team at Benoy (then GH+A) and Adamson and Associates Architects under the leadership of Triple 5 Group on this literally massive undertaking.

Our team at Gabriel Mackinnon has decades of experience illuminating retail spaces and shopping centres, primarily in the public realm and front of house spaces, but you could fit several of them into this project! Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss a massive multiyear project, where the lighting designers might be the last ones left standing at the table after 8 years of consultant churn. We would also be happy to discuss your tiny project – that would be nice.