PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. -- Cooper Lighting's HALO brand of recessed and track lighting continues to affirm itself as the industry-leader, as it has won multiple awards in 2006 from both Builder Magazine and Remodeling Magazine, as well as a Best in Class award from Professional Remodeler Magazine.
While moving through the 1520 pages, the profusion of handsome illustrations offers readers a refreshing view particularly of the new architecture and changing character of the outer boroughs. The bright blue MoMA Queens in the former Swingline Factory that rejuvenated an entire neighbourhood is sadly no longer in public use since the Museum of Modern Art moved back into its renovated building in Manhattan. And although the names of well known architects are sprinkled throughout, you will not soon forget a Modernist house designed by Peter Gluck in the Bronx, or the great truss entrance to the Studio Museum of Harlem by Rogers Marvel Architects.Other Notable Features"2006 was the brand's 50th anniversary and HALO continues to adapt to the recessed and track lighting market. Customers responded by again naming Halo the industry leader in quality and usage," said Glenn Siegel, Director of Marketing and Product Management, Cooper Lighting. "Recognition by such highly read industry publications has helped Cooper Lighting continue its leadership in the commercial, industrial and residential lighting markets."New York 2000 makes for a grand visit to a stolid and only sometimes adventurous city, and yet it needs more of those visual connectors that bring the city alive. For example, the new Time Warner Center is shown in all its shining commercial glory at Columbus Circle, but nowhere do we look down from it at night onto the circle itself, newly designed by the Olin Partnership. With its illuminated fountains surrounding the Christopher Columbus monument and rivers of car lights swirling around from four different avenues, New York may now boast of its own glamorous Place de la Concorde. The reader will have to come see this for him/herself.HALO has also been named as the brand leader in lighting by Remodeling Magazine's Remodeling 2006 Brand Use Study by Readex. The survey resulted in HALO taking first place in the Research Brand Familiarity, Brand Used in Past 2 Years, Brand Used the Most and Brand Used in Past 2 Years and/or Would Consider lighting categories.Equipped With a Freeview TunerThough the book takes a geographic route from downtown to uptown and into the booming boroughs, you may enter any neighbourhood of choice along the way, say Chelsea, the latest fashionable art gallery district in the West Twenties by the Hudson River. Here you read in accessible and non-jargonesque language a detailed and fascinating account of the area's past industrial history and recent developments of sleek gallery architecture and of how it will be transformed again by the park-like pedestrianisation of the Highline, the elevated freight rail that bisects it. At a panel of urban experts at Columbia University that aunched the book (the authors over the years were mostly alumni of its college or its Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation), the writer Tom Wolfe remarked how New York artists, baited by low rent studios, have unwittingly become the real-estate pioneers responsible for converting neighbourhoods like Chelsea into upscale residential and commercial areas. Although the book is about architects and planners, as you read on about Soho and Tribeca (acronyms are the giveaway of artsy chic), the untold back story is about the power of developers, who seek these opportunities but lack the style and taste to make New York as innovatively and technically beautiful as a city like Helsinki.
Cooper Industries, Ltd. is a global manufacturer with 2006 revenues of $5.2 billion, approximately 85 percent of which are from electrical products. Incorporated in Bermuda with administrative headquarters in Houston, Cooper employs approximately 31,000 people and operates eight divisions: Cooper B-Line, Cooper Bussmann, Cooper Crouse-Hinds, Cooper Lighting, Cooper Menvier, Cooper Power Systems, Cooper Wiring Devices and Cooper Tools group. Cooper Connection provides a common marketing and selling platform for Cooper's sales to electrical distributors. For more information, visit www.cooperindustries.com.
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