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Office for Visual Interaction, Inc. (OVI)

Overview
Buildings

About

Member Offices: New York City

At Office for Visual Interaction, Inc. (OVI), we are more than lighting designers–we are philosophers, storytellers and tailors who identify the essence of a project and craft our designs into vivid architectural icons.

Our mission is to design and produce legacy-worthy masterpieces that radiate not just with light, but with rich narratives that thoroughly understand a project’s position in society and time.

We see light as more than a tool; its interaction with surfaces and materials tells an emotional tale, providing depth and structure to a space. Every project is a new opportunity to communicate an idea.

We seek to nurture and further the union of daylight and design. We believe the sensations that lighting stirs are inseparable from the space itself; it is as elemental to architecture as glasswork. We absorb location-specific details, exacting technical specifications, textured facades–every factor and concept that forms the complete project–in order to divine the essence of the overall vision.

In both breadth and scope, OVI’s portfolio is vast and inclusive, comprising intimate, humble installations and iconic, larger than life works–each approached with equal passion and humanity. Our designs and products discover and emphasize stories as dynamically composed visual soundtracks that underscore and invigorate architectural masterpieces. The stories that shape our work advance the industry while honoring and echoing the ideas of the past, memorializing and progressing the quintessence of a place, a people, an era.

As architectural lighting designers we extract, refine and strengthen the design making any location exceptional. With bold thinking and hidden logic, we provide one-of-a-kind concept and lighting ideation, daylight analysis, photometric calculations, drawings, specifications and luminaire schedules. Our integrated design solutions and detailed coordination provide a sophisticated aesthetic, creating an iconic, emotional, and holistic expression of light.

OVI was founded in 1997 by Jean Sundin and Enrique Peiniger and is based in New York City.

Fields of Expertise

Buildings

Rank	Name	City	Completion	Height
1	HeXi Yuzui Tower A	Nanjing	2025	498.8 m / 1,636 ft
2	Al Hamra Tower	Kuwait City	2011	412.6 m / 1,354 ft
3	The Towers	Miami	-	319.7 m / 1,049 ft
4	New York Times Tower	New York City	2007	318.8 m / 1,046 ft
5	Suzhou Keyne Center Office and Hotel	Suzhou	-	300 m / 984 ft
6	Qintai International Tower	Wuhan	-	248 m / 814 ft
7	830 Brickell	Miami	2023	220.7 m / 724 ft
8	Suzhou Keyne Center Residential Tower	Suzhou	-	220 m / 722 ft
9	Una Residences	Miami	2023	186.8 m / 613 ft
10	Huamu Lot 10 T1	Shanghai	2022	179.9 m / 590 ft

Rank	Name	City	Completion	Height
1	HeXi Yuzui Tower A	Nanjing	2025	499 m / 1,636 ft
2	Chengdu Greenland Tower	Chengdu	-	468 m / 1,535 ft
3	Dancing Dragon Tower 1	Seoul	-	446 m / 1,463 ft
4	Multifunctional Highrise Complex - Akhmat Tower	Groznyj	-	435 m / 1,427 ft
5	Al Hamra Tower	Kuwait City	2011	413 m / 1,354 ft
6	Dancing Dragon Tower 2	Seoul	-	378 m / 1,240 ft
7	The Towers	Miami	-	320 m / 1,049 ft
8	New York Times Tower	New York City	2007	319 m / 1,046 ft
9	Suzhou Keyne Center Office and Hotel	Suzhou	-	300 m / 984 ft
10	Qintai International Tower	Wuhan	-	248 m / 814 ft
11	830 Brickell	Miami	2023	221 m / 724 ft
12	Suzhou Keyne Center Residential Tower	Suzhou	-	220 m / 722 ft
13	Una Residences	Miami	2023	187 m / 613 ft
14	Huamu Lot 10 T1	Shanghai	2022	180 m / 590 ft
14	Huamu Lot 10 T2	Shanghai	2022	180 m / 590 ft
14	Huamu Lot 10 T3	Shanghai	2022	180 m / 590 ft
17	Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 2	Chengdu	-	173 m / 568 ft
18	Chengdu Greenland Center Tower 3	Chengdu	-	166 m / 545 ft