Hospitality
Guest rooms, apartments, corridors and facades. Light that behaves like the light of a house and survives the use of a hotel.
Restaurants
Dining rooms and cafés, where light has to serve the food, the face of the person across the table, and the bill at the end of the night.
Museums and art galleries
Permanent collection and contemporary art galleries, where conservation limits decide what is possible before the design begins.
Heritage and monuments
City walls, churches and convents, where the light is mounted on stone that cannot be drilled and has to last for decades.
Squares and public space
Roundabouts, squares and urban monuments: visual hierarchies that tell everyone crossing where to look first.
Offices and industry
Offices, industrial halls and petrol stations: buildings where the light has to serve the work done inside and, at the same time, say what the building is to whoever passes at a distance.
Lighting masterplans
The scale at which light stops being a project and becomes part of urban design. Diana Delnegro coordinated Lisbon's first lighting masterplan, still awaiting implementation; the lighting of Porto's ring of medieval walls was designed to reshape the night image of the city; and in Porto Alegre the studio designed, with three other lighting designers, the lighting of 55 cultural landmarks of the historic centre, taken as one set rather than as 55 separate commissions. Diana Delnegro chairs the CIE technical committee for urban architectural lighting and has taught the CIE guide to urban lighting masterplans in Italy, in 2022, and at the Istanbul conference in May 2023.
Five recent commissions, 2022–2026
Foto de Pedro Cardigo / MotaEngilM-ODU, Matadouro do Porto
Cultural quarter · Porto · In progress · with Kengo Kuma & AssociatesKengo Kuma & AssociatesIn collaboration with Kengo Kuma & Associates, lighting for the reconversion of Porto's former slaughterhouse into a landmark complex of cultural and office spaces.
MACAM, Lisboa
MACAM, LisboaMACAM, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins
Museum & Hotel · Lisbon · 2025Complete lighting design for the museum and the MACAM Hotel, inside and out: permanent collection and contemporary art galleries, guest rooms and apartments, library, restaurant, the àcapela bar and the facades of a nineteenth-century palace.
Diana DelnegroMuralhas Fernandinas, Porto
Urban monument · Porto · 2024Honourable Mention, LIT Awards 2025Lighting for the stretch of medieval city wall above the Ribeira, designed to read from the far bank of the Douro without competing with the bridge or the facades around it.
Pedro M. RodriguesMarquês de Pombal, Statue and Roundabout
Urban monument · LisbonLighting for Lisbon's most iconic roundabout: a system of visual hierarchies that highlights the statue and orients everyone moving through the square.
Diana DelnegroConvento de Cristo
UNESCO World Heritage · Tomar · UpcomingIn developmentUpcoming lighting project for the cloisters of the Convent of Christ, including the celebrated Manueline window of the Chapter Room.
Commissions in light, ordered by year
| No. | Work | Place | Year | Honours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 018 | Convento de Cristo, UNESCO World Heritage | Tomar | 2026 | In development |
| 017 | M-ODU / Matadouro do Porto, with Kengo Kuma & Associates | Porto | 2026 | In progress |
| 016 | MACAM, Museum and Hotel | Lisboa | 2025 | |
| 015 | Fernandine Walls of Porto | Porto | 2024 | Honourable Mention, LIT Awards 2025 |
| 014 | Lighting of 55 cultural landmarks of Porto Alegre, with Eduardo Becker, Carina Tomazzoni and Osvaldo Perrenoud | Porto Alegre | 2023 | |
| 013 | BP petrol stations | Leiria | 2022 | Gold, ADC Awards (International) |
| 012 | Praça do Comércio, façade lighting | Lisboa | — | |
| 011 | Marquês de Pombal, statue and roundabout | Lisboa | — | |
| 010 | Lisbon Urban Lighting Masterplan | Lisboa | — | The city's first lighting masterplan |
| 009 | Lisbon's network of belvederes and their churches | Lisboa | — | |
| 008 | Santa Casa da Misericórdia, headquarters and church | Lisboa | — | |
| 007 | Igreja de São Roque | Lisboa | — | |
| 006 | Igreja da Graça and the Sophia de Mello Breyner belvedere | Lisboa | — | |
| 005 | Igreja da Conceição Velha | Lisboa | — | |
| 004 | Hotel Avenida Palace | Lisboa | — | |
| 003 | Hotel Palácio Condes da Ribeira Grande | Lisboa | — | |
| 002 | Columns of Parque Eduardo VII | Lisboa | — | |
| 001 | Monument to the Dead of the Great War | Lisboa | — |