PROJECT: Paris 2024 Olympic Village
LOCATION: Saint-Denis & Saint-Ouen, France
LIGHTING DESIGN: CONCEPTO
PHOTOGRAPHY: © Casey Andrew; © Gaia Lemmens; © Vincent Muracciole
Paris built a new village in its northern quarter to welcome the 14,500 athletes of the 2024 Olympic Games. The design team sought to define new standards for responsible outdoor lighting design focused on biodiversity preservation, reuse, and social inclusivity. To reduce the project’s carbon footprint, they sourced repurposed materials to create a range of refurbished furniture and scaffoldings that present a new way of doing lighting design, made for a fleeting event but with a lasting legacy. The custom streetlights built from reclaimed wood and reused steel poles captured the judges’ attention and praise, an exemplary approach to sustainable design.
The 2025 IALD International Lighting Design Awards were celebrated in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, on May 7, 2025. Nineteen projects from eight countries were recognized and awarded for exceptional lighting design and contribution to the professional community.
Celebrating its 42nd annual iteration, the IALD International Lighting Design Awards is the longest-running program recognizing architectural lighting design excellence. Receiving an IALD Award is universally heralded as the top honor in the lighting design industry. Since its inception in 1983, the IALD International Lighting Design Awards has honored lighting design that reaches new heights, moves beyond the ordinary, and represents excellence in aesthetic and technical design achievement.
Complete details on the IALD Awards program, including this year’s winners and those from previous years, as well as instructions on how to submit projects for consideration in the next Awards cycle, can be found at https://iald.org/awards.
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[Music] Paris built a new village in its northern quarterÂ
to welcome the 14,500 athletes of the 2024 Olympic  Games. The design team sought to define newÂ
standards for responsible outdoor lighting design  focused on biodiversity preservation, reuse, andÂ
social inclusivity. To reduce the project’s carbon  footprint, they sourced repurposed materialsÂ
to create a range of refurbished furniture and  scaffoldings that present a new way of doingÂ
lighting design, made for a fleeting event but  with a lasting legacy. The custom streetlightsÂ
built from reclaimed wood and reused steel poles  captured the judges’ attention and praise,Â
an exemplary approach to sustainable design. [Music]