News

 
 

2024


The Architect’s Newspaper, September 10, 2024. “Toshiko Mori reveals details for phase two of Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch.”


The Architect’s Newspaper, January 29, 2024. OLIN’s Science Playground at Pier 26 invites young New Yorkers to learn while having fun.”

 
 

2022


The New York Times, July 23, 2022. “ ‘Just Think Rome’: The Morgan Library & Museum Opens Garden to the Public.


The New York Times, June 10, 2022. “Manhattan’s New Green Space Was J. P. Morgan’s Side Yard.”


The Architect’s Newspaper, June 10, 2022. “Morgan Library façade and garden are restored for the first time in 115 years.”


The Art Newspaper, June 17, 2022. “The newly restored Morgan Library and Museum opens a public garden.”


Architect Magazine, June 24, 2022. “A Restoration and Fresh Garden Bring Light to The Morgan.” 


Curbed, June 9, 2022. “The Morgan Library’s Gilded Age Garden Gets a Glow Up.”


Interior Design, October 10, 2022. “The Morgan Library & Museum Receives a Stylish Update.”


WPLN News, October 19, 2022. “The Children’s Memory Garden Memorializes Nashville’s Youngest Victims of Violence.”


News Channel 5 Nashville, October 18, 2022. “New Children’s Memory Garden of Nashville Dedicated.”  


Metropolis Magazine, May 26, 2022. “A New Light Column Takes a Less-Is-More Approach.”

 
 

2021


Landezine, October 13, 2021. “Profile Lighting: Beautifully, Intentionally Minimal.”

 
 

2020


Architect Magazine, September 24, 2020. “One-on-One with Linnaea Tillett.”


Metropolis Magazine, May 5, 2020. “At Toronto’s Bentway, Lighting as a Base Layer for Artistic Intervention.”


Metropolis Magazine, May 6, 2020. To Illuminate Raleigh’s Museum Park, Less is More.”


The Architect’s Newspaper, September 30, 2020. Pier 26, Transformed in Tribeca, Opens to the Public.”


CUNY Graduate Center News, April 24, 2020. “Designing Artful Light for The Morgan Library.” 


Landscape Architecture Magazine, December 2020. “The Dark Side of Light.”


The New York Times, September 30, 2020. “At the End of the New Pier 26, a Surprise.”

 
 

2019


The Art Newspaper, October 2, 2019. “The Morgan Maps Out a Garden of Enchantment.”


Dezeen, March 8, 2019. “The Bentway Park Opens Under Toronto's Gardiner Expressway.”


Architectural Digest, October 2, 2019. “ The Morgan Library Is About to Get a Garden Like Kate Middleton’s.”

 
 

2018


Architectural Record, August 1, 2018. "Brooklyn Bridge Boathouse  by Architecture Research Office"

 
 

2017


Ljuskultur, June 2017. “Nattens drottning: Linnaea Tillett manifestar vår rätt till mörker”


The Wirecutter, October 9, 2017. "The Best LED Desk Lamp"


Untapped Cities, May 2, 2017. “Reconfiguring the Urban Landscape through Lighting Design with Tillett Lighting Design Associates”


Architectural Lighting, Jan/Feb 2017. "One-on-One: Linnaea Tillett"

 
 

2016


The Wall Street Journal, December 17-18, 2016. "Best in Glow" 


Curbed, November 16, 2016. "Long-awaited Astor Place reconstruction is finally complete"


The Tennessean, October 6, 2016. "Nashville's Centennial Park Phase Two Detailed"


Architectural Record, August 2016. "Designing for the Dark"


The New York Times, March 16, 2016. "A Park as an Extension of the Museum Itself"


The Atlantic, January 25, 2016. "Colorful Lights Are Turning Skyscrapers Into Tacky Billboards"

 
 

2015


Landscape Architecture Magazine, December 2015. "Change the Channel"


Landscape Architecture Magazine, July 2015. "Illumination Blues"


Luce, June 2015. "Interview with Linnaea Tillett"


Luminous, Spring 2015. "Linking Communities with Light"


LD+A, April 2015. "Award Show: Any-Angled Light, Bear Canyon Arroyo Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge"


The Architect's Newspaper, March 18, 2015. "Darker, Safer"

 
 

2014


The New York Times, June 20, 2014. "The Solstice Blues"


Metropolis, June, 2014. “Seeing in the Dark”


Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 2014. "Red Alert"


Landscape Architecture, January 2014. "Running in Place."

 
 

2013


The New York Times, December 25, 2013. "A Brooklyn Church Uncovers a Long-Hidden Celestial Scene."


Topos, #84, 2013. "Lighting the Bear Canyon Arroyo Bridge"


Curbed, October 08, 2013. "Design of Couple's HL23 Apartment Inspired by HL23 Itself"


Dwell, October, 2013. "Eye in the Sky"


The Wall Street Journal, September 27, 2013. "How LEDs are Changing Design"


The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2013. "Monumental New York"


The New York Times, September 18, 2013. "Changing Perspectives"


The Boston Herald, September 17, 2013. "Follow the Black Brick Road"


The Boston Globe, September 17, 2013. "Gardner Museum Unveils Monks Garden"


New York Cottages & Gardens, Sep, 2013. "Electric Avenues: Brooklyn-based designer Linnaea Tillett shapes the way we see the light"


Albuquerque Journal, May 25, 2013. "Bridge Over I-25 has Sci-Fi Feel"


Architect's Newspaper, April 10, 2013. "City Lights"


Dwell, Special Renovation Issue, April, 2013.


OrisNo. 79 (April, 2013). "New York Memorializes President Roosevelt"


Metropolis, P.O.V. Blog,  March 8, 2013. "Light After Dark"


Brownstoner, March 29, 2013. "The Hot Seat: Linnaea Tillett"


The Architect's Newspaper, February 5, 2013. "A Sensitivity to Light"


Professional Lighting Design Magazine, Jan/Feb 2013. "The LEDs Got Brighter"


Interior Design, February, 2013. "Behind-the-Scenes: Linnaea Tillett" 


Metropolis, P.O.V. Blog, January 15th, 2013. "On the Periphery"


Metropolis, January 15, 2013. “When It Comes to Lighting, It’s About Feeling Not Seeing”


Designy things, January 2, 2013. "Light Bulb Magnets"

 
 

2012


Next Avenue,  December 17, 2012. "The Surprising Benefits of Shorter Days"


Metropolis, P.O.V. Blog, November 15th, 2012. "Scared, Bothered, and Bewildered"


Metropolis, November 15, 2012. “Lessons from Sandy”


Interior Design, October, 2012. "Catch the Wave"


Elle Decor, Sweden, October, 2012.


The Architect’s Newspaper, October 17, 2012. “Lighting the Way to Freedom”


Architect, March 2012, "Overexposed"


Buffalo Rising, March 29, 2012, "Ellicott Park: BNMC's Linear Park"


New York Magazine, February 5, 2012, "Nothing But Green Lights"

 
 

2011


New Geographies, 3: Urbanisms of Color; Gareth Doherty, ed. (2011). “Accumulations,” by Julia Czerniak.


Garden Design, July/August 2011. "Let There be Night"


Railway Interiors International, June 2011. "Style and Substance"


Architectural Lighting, March/April 2011, "Pool on the Water"

 
 

2010


Architectural Record, April 1, 2010, "Recounting Modernism"


Town & Country, February 2010. "A Switched on Expert"


New York Magazine: The Cut, January 7, 2010.

 
 

2009


Indian Architect & Builder, November 2009. "Rethinking Lighting Design"


Architect's Newspaper, October 21, 2009. "Lighting Feature: Tillett Lighting Design"


North American Design, Fall 2009. "Tillett Lighting Design Profile"


New York Times: Lens “Sight/Site”, August 25, 2009. "This Way"


New York Times: City Room, July 2009. "Answers About Public Art in New York"


Solid State Lighting Design, July 2009. "Brooklyn Bridge Project Frames Thoughts on Ways to Eliminate Over-light"


Lighting India, March/April 2009. "Lighting a Luxury Train for the 21st Century“


Decorators Home, February 10, 2009. Milne-Ojito Residence.


Washington Spaces, Winter 2009. "When Every Inch Counts"

 
 

2008


Enlighter.org, November/December 2008. Featured Designer.


Professional Lighting Design, October-November 2008. "A Goodbye to Shadows"


Architectural Lighting, September/October 2008. “This Way: Brooklyn Bridge Installation"


Architectural Record, August 19, 2008. "This Way"


Architect's Newspaper, May 22, 2008. "Walk This Way"


Forbes Life, March 2008. “Night Light”


The New York Times, January 2008. “Making Dark Rooms Glow”

 
 

2007


Lighting and Sound, December 2007. “Café Carlyle Swings Again, Thanks to Lighting/Sound Upgrade”


Architectural Lighting, November/December 2007. “125th Anniversary Gala”


NYT: Louis Poulsen Magazine of Lighting and Architecture, Issue 585, 2007. “The Adventure Returns”


designbuild-network.com, October 2007. “Innovations Come to Light”


Architecture Plus (Dubai/London) Volume 15. “A New Kind of White”


Dwell, September 2007. “Henry Urbach: Curatorial Explorer”


Professional Lighting Design May-June 2007. “Nighttime Rendezvous with the Statue of Liberty”


Lighting Design (Romania) April-June 2007. “Battery Bosque: sau farmecul discret al luminii”


New York Magazine. May 28, 2007. “Fantasy Island”


Architectural Record, February 2007. “Battery Bosque”


New York Magazine, February 2007. “Space Shifters”


Architectural Lighting, Jan/Feb 2007. “Light and the Urban Nightscape”


Architect’s Newspaper, January 17, 2007. "Lighting Feature"

 
 

2006


AND rivista di architetture, cittá e architetti December 2006, “Tillett Lighting: segni di luce;” “Sensi urbani”


Lighting India, May-June 2006, “Friends Meeting House”


Architectural Record, April 2006. “Box House, Colorado”

 
 

2005


Landscape Architecture, August 2005. "A Better Battery Bosque"


The New York Times, June 2005. “Grove at the Battery is Ready to Reopen”


Illuminator (Russia), June 2005, (Ecliptic and Icepool).

 
 

2004


Professional Lighting Design, November/December, 2004. “The Snow Show in Lapland /FIN”


Architecture, October 2004. “The Boat in the Woods”


The New York Times, July 2004. “Currents”


Architectural Record, May 2004. “The Snow Show, Finland”

 
 

2003


Architectural Record, February 2003. “Friends Meeting House: New York City”

 
 

2002


Metropolis, March 2002. “Water Works”


Martha Stewart Living, February 2002. “Light Bulbs”

 
 

2001


Lighting & Interiors, June/July 2001. “Lighting Designer in the World, Linnaea Tillett”


To The Trade, December/January 2001. “Well Lit, The Art of Illumination”

 
 

1999


Lighting Your Community, 1999. Lighting information pamplet for the New York City Department of Transportation.

 
 

1998


Design Times, February/March 1998. “Designing with Color and Light”

 
 

1997


Places, Summer 1997/Vol. 11/No. 2. “Nighttime Lighting and Community Character”