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KGM Architectural Lighting Established in 1985, KGM Architectural Lighting provides lighting design services to a multitude of market sectors worldwide. Spaces are defined by light.

KGM Architectural Lighting is a Los Angeles based architectural lighting design firm with offices in New York and Atlanta. Established in 1985, KGM provides lighting design services to a variety of market sectors worldwide. This is accomplished by completely understanding the architectural concepts and complexities of any given project, evaluating various possible design solutions, and ultimately developing a lighting scheme that is fully integrated, cost effective and functional. Ongoing collaboration with the team during the design process enables lighting to actually become incorporated into the architecture, adding sophistication and strength to the overall design of the project. Lighting certified, licensed architects, LEED accredited professionals, and members of AIA and IALD comprise the talented individuals of KGM Architectural Lighting. State-of-the-art equipment provides the tools necessary to perform photometric studies, produce renderings of proposed lighting effects and develop documents utilizing the most current AutoCAD, Revit, AGI32, and Adobe software, while providing FTP capabilities. This technical backbone provides our design team the ability to work on local and international projects both creatively and efficiently. Our collaborative approach is an integral process focusing on professionalism and timeliness throughout the design process. With dedication and determination, Dave, Martin and Dan have worked diligently to build KGM into a thriving architectural lighting design firm. There is a fundamental belief that the firm must always improve, do better work, develop and generate an environment which fosters creativity. They have inspired other firms to follow the architectural paradigm by building their practices on the model of an architecture studio. Their ‘team player’ approach and enjoyment of the design process provides an atmosphere conducive to personal and professional growth.

Congratulations to Inns of Aurora on being named one of the top ten resorts in the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic in the Condé...
10/14/2026

Congratulations to Inns of Aurora on being named one of the top ten resorts in the Northeast & Mid-Atlantic in the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards!

We’re proud to work with partners who care this much about the spaces they create, and happy to have played a part in the guest experience.

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Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architecture: Hart Howerton
Photography: Brian Peck
Clients: Inns of Aurora Resort & Spa The Spa at the Inns of Aurora

10/12/2026

Lighting someone’s home is personal work.

It’s the place they unwind, host friends, and kick their feet up at the end of the day. So we light the architecture so it feels considered, and the rooms so they feel easy to live in.

The result is a house that looks considered and feels like home. We love helping people get there.

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architecture: kaa_design
Contractor: Beachcraft
Photography: Manolo Langis - Photographer

Please join us in welcoming Tarunima Nigam and Jiyun Kim to our Los Angeles studio.We’re proud to bring talented designe...
10/09/2026

Please join us in welcoming Tarunima Nigam and Jiyun Kim to our Los Angeles studio.

We’re proud to bring talented designers onto the team who will continue to shape the way spaces are perceived through light. Welcome aboard!

Premium fitness has become part hospitality, part wellbeing. The feeling of the space matters as much as the equipment.A...
10/07/2026

Premium fitness has become part hospitality, part wellbeing. The feeling of the space matters as much as the equipment.

At Equinox La Costa, warm light that slows you down when you arrive. Soft light where you feel most exposed. Every zone tuned to what you need from it.

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architecture: RDC
Clients: Equinox
Photography: Benny Chan

In a store like this, nobody came to look at the shelving.So the shelving disappears. It’s clear, and the light passes r...
10/05/2026

In a store like this, nobody came to look at the shelving.

So the shelving disappears. It’s clear, and the light passes right through it. The walls and fixtures stay white and quiet. And the accent lighting is aimed tightly at the product, so the shoes are the most vivid, most focused things in the room.

The result is a store where your eye goes exactly where it should, every time, without anyone telling it to.

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting

Nobody comes to the campus library for ten minutes.Which means the light has to hold up for hour three, when attention i...
10/02/2026

Nobody comes to the campus library for ten minutes.

Which means the light has to hold up for hour three, when attention is thinning and a harsh room would send you home.

Three things wear people down: glare, flat relentless brightness, and having no say in either. So the sources stay hidden, the light lands on surfaces rather than straight down, and there’s an adjustable lamp at each work station.

Comfort is an academic outcome.

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architecture: Integrated Design Firm
Photography: Lawrence Anderson Studio
Client: Los Angeles Harbor College

The dining experience starts before you sit down.A terrace glowing under the umbrellas. A dining room that drops warmer ...
09/30/2026

The dining experience starts before you sit down.

A terrace glowing under the umbrellas. A dining room that drops warmer and quieter as you move into it. Nobody tells you to slow down. The room does it.

We are proud to have had a hand in shaping that experience for Hawksmoor Boston. Congratulations to Hawksmoor on opening another beautiful location!

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Photography: Jamie Hackett Photography
Clients: Hawksmoor Hawksmoor Boston

More light doesn’t always mean a better result. Sometimes it takes a careful angle to convey the idea.This precast relie...
09/28/2026

More light doesn’t always mean a better result. Sometimes it takes a careful angle to convey the idea.

This precast relief, by Jacques Overhoff, has wrapped the Mark Taper Forum since 1967. It’s all ridge and recess, which means you read it through shadow. Point a light straight at it and the shadows disappear, and all that texture flattens into a plain wall.

So, after the sun goes down, the light comes from below at a shallow angle instead. Every ridge casts its own shadow, and the effect holds from across the plaza.

This is true almost everywhere. Brick, stone, plaster, wood grain, fabric, any material with texture depends on the angle light strikes it. Move the source a few degrees and the material changes character entirely.

2008 Mark Taper Forum Renovation
Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architecture: RIOS
Photography: Tom Bonner Photography

Baiyunting means cloud pavilion. That name sets an expectation for anyone who walks up to the building.Daylight and a fo...
09/25/2026

Baiyunting means cloud pavilion. That name sets an expectation for anyone who walks up to the building.

Daylight and a folded aluminum skin keep that promise for about half the day. The rest of the time, the light has to.

Sources behind the panels and carefully aimed sources at the surface, so the facade stays soft and weightless well after the sun is gone.

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architects: Dushe Architectural Design Co.
Photographer: Su Shengliang

One room says slow down. The other says stay up.Same property, opposite feelings, both built with light.📍Hard Rock Hotel...
09/24/2026

One room says slow down. The other says stay up.

Same property, opposite feelings, both built with light.

📍Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Punta Cana

Lighting Design: KGM Architectural Lighting
Architecture: Interior Design · Fabrication · Management + The Gettys Group
Photography: COSTEA PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.

Address

270 Coral Cir
El Segundo, CA
90245

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+13105522191

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