Eight floors of amber, and a blue skylight
In the Tribeca Grand’s atrium, each floor’s ceiling glows a deeper colour than the one below, until the skylight turns blue.
The Tribeca Grand is dominated by an eight-storey open atrium capped with a 50-foot skylight1. Focus Lighting made that height the subject of the lighting rather than a problem to fill.
Steel columns around the atrium are streaked with light from metal-mesh sconces1. On every guest floor, the ceiling coffers in the hallways, visible from the atrium, are uplit in amber, and each floor’s coffers are lit a progressively deeper colour1.
At the top, the skylight glows with a deep blue light, creating dramatic contrast.
Focus Lighting, on the Tribeca Grand
Read the photographs from bottom to top and the idea is clear: warm and bright where people sit, deeper and darker as you look up, and a cool, calm lid on the whole thing.
From the project
The interior designers credited are Bogdanow Partners and Tsao McKown1.
It is a hotel version of the hierarchy that runs through this issue’s parks: the most light where people are, less as you move away from them.
- Focus LightingLighting design
- Bogdanow PartnersInterior design
- Tsao McKownInterior design
At a glance
- An eight-storey atrium under a 50-foot skylight.
- Each floor’s coffers a deeper amber than the one below.
- A deep blue skylight on top.
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from these public pages. Open the original to check it, or to see more of the project.
- Focus LightingFocus Lighting — Tribeca Grand HotelUndated page · checked 2026-09-28
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