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the new meadowlands stadiums video systems may get all the glory, but its massive distributed audio installation delivers concert-level sound and can adapt to multiple tenants.

New Meadowlands Stadium: Not Just a Video Masterpiece

The New Meadowlands Stadium may be a marvel of IT-based video technology, but its architectural design also required a marvelous sound solution.

Much has been written about the massive video intrastructure at New Meadowlands Stadium and they way it delivers content to every visitor. But the audio system is also cutting-edge.

 

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Latest Installs

  • Working with numbers can be a very visual experience. Heres how one financial services firm set up its offices in order to see information flow.

    The Money Channel

    When Russell Investments, a worldwide investment firm, moved its global headquarters it turned to integrator Dimensional Communications to deliver what would be critical AV systems.

     
  • When Lockheed Martin decided to spruce up its Washington, D.C.area Global Vision Center, it could have gone with projected imagery on a globe. It didn't. If you look carefully, you'll see the flat screens are grouped to approximate continents.

    A Spherical Videowall

    When defense contractor Lockheed Martin wanted to wow visitors to a new facility, it turned flat-screen TVs into virtual continents.

     
  • Three clubs in a row enjoy big, networked sound as part of a multimillion-dollar initiative to revitalize one state capitals downtown.

    Tic-Tac-Toe, Three Clubs in a Row

    San Francisco-based integrator JK Sound took its expertise on the road to help a hometown club owner expand into the state's capital. The results have been good for everyone.

     
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Most Popular Installations

  • Inside Scoop: Fox News, Studio H

    Creating the 36-by-48-foot Studio H on the 12th floor of the Fox News building in midtown Manhattan began with the build-out of a new two-story studio shell, complete with video cabling and a powered lighting grid. As executives fielded design ideas and bids, the race began: Deadlines were tight...

     

  • 2010 PRO AV Spotlight Awards

    In its third year, the Spotlight Awards program recognizes 16 winners, including 12 first-time recipients. Talk about an industry with talent to go around.

     
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    Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter

    Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.

     
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Spotlight Awards

  • 2011 PRO AV Spotlight Awards

    The PRO AV Spotlight Awards are your chance to gain recognition for your company and get noticed by AV pros and architects for outstanding design and installation in commercial, corporate, education, and other non-residential applications.

     
  • Peeps & Company, National Harbor, Md. AV consultant: RTKL Associates. Systems integrator: One Solution. AV integrator: Tritech. Architect/design firm: RTKL Associates.

    2010 Best Retail AV Project

    Candy-maker Just Born opened its flagship Peeps & Company store at National Harbor, Md. RTKL Associates, which designed the AV and lighting systems, calls it "an example of brand-focused retailing."

     
  • Classic Comforts, Greenwich, Conn. AV integrator: Electronics Design Group. Architect/design firm: Shope Reno Wharton Architecture.

    2010 Best Residential AV Project

    The first Spotlight Award winner for Best Residential Project has 14 TVs, 31 AV zones, a 12-seat home theater, and a home office with its own Tandberg videoconferencing system.

     
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  • A Capella Means Sound AV

    At 53 stories, the halo-topped 225 South Sixth stands out from the Minneapolis skyline. Then landlord Hines, an international real estate firm, hoped the recent addition of a 5,400-square-foot executive conference facility would make it stand out in a different way.

     

  • How the Business Downturn Sparked a Rise in Executive Conference Facilities

    Executive conference facilities are showing up at hotels, corporations, colleges, and even large churches. Many are built as standalone destinations dedicated to hosting meetings; others are extensions of an organization's campus. All can help groups cut travel costs, realize new revenue streams...

     

  • Angels in the Outskirts: Telemedicine in Action

    Known as the Antenatal and Neonatal Guidelines, Education, and Learning System (ANGELS), the program employs conferencing technology to virtually transport a medical specialist to wherever the mother and child live and allow the doctor to perform many of the same examinations they would in person.

     
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Corporate and Retail

  • Peeps & Company, National Harbor, Md. AV consultant: RTKL Associates. Systems integrator: One Solution. AV integrator: Tritech. Architect/design firm: RTKL Associates.

    2010 Best Retail AV Project

    Candy-maker Just Born opened its flagship Peeps & Company store at National Harbor, Md. RTKL Associates, which designed the AV and lighting systems, calls it "an example of brand-focused retailing."

     
  • Boston Scientific Visitors Center, St. Paul, Minn. AV integrator: Sensory Environment Design. Architect/design firm: RSP Architects. Custom curved screen by Spyeglass.

    2010 Best Corporate AV Project (under $250K)

    Tasked with creating a "wow" effect Sensory Environment Design created a custom 4-by-20-foot seamless curved rear-projection screen with 3M's Vikuiti projection film and custom edge-blending software.

     
  • Bank of Amercia, New York. AV consultant: CMS Audiovisual Consultants. AV integrator: AV Services. Architect/design firm: Gensler

    2010 Best Corporate AV Project

    The Bank of America building in New York was designed to earn LEED Platinum. As such, the AV designs from CMS Audiovisual Consultants had to be as green as possible.

     
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Health Care Installs

  • Center for Connected Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pa. AV consultant: The Sextant Group. AV integrator: SoundCom. Architect/design firm: The Design Alliance. Visioning consultant/communications consultancy and design: ThoughtForm.

    2010 Best Health Care AV Project

    Sixty floors above Pittsburgh, sensors detect visitors? arrival at the Center for Connected Medicine and greet them with an interactive Flash program projected onto glass-etched automatic doors.

     
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Hospitality and Restaurants

  • Gamer's Delight

    It's considered ESPN's top sports bar on the east coast. And no wonder. The latest Chickie's & Pete's at Parx Casino offers the total experience, plus a unique video gaming environment.

     
  • Stay Hotel, New York. AV/lighting consultant: Robert Singer & Associates. AV/lighting integrator: SJ Lighting. Content consultant: V Squared Labs. Hardware/software integrator: DigitalMediaDesigns.

    2010 Best Hospitality AV Project

    To help the Stay Hotel stand out in Times Square, Robert Singer & Associates created a 10-story, seamless video projection system for the hotel's courtyard and a four-story system for the facade.

     
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    Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter

    Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.

     
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Houses of Worship Installs

  • Shen Milsom and Wilke came up with creative acoustical solutions for the Cathedral of Christ the Light, including wood canopies over the choir and opposite the altar. Speakers in the canopies help provide sound coverage.

    2009 Best House of Worship AV Project (Under $250K)

    The 1,500-seat sanctuary of the Cathedral of Christ the Light is the centerpiece of the Diocese of Oakland, Calif.’s Cathedral Center. It’s an architectural landmark and an acoustical challenge.

     

  • 2009 Best House of Worship AV Project

    Eastlake was a true collaboration between integrator and architect. Within guidelines, the team at Southern California Sound Image helped direct the building's interior geometry and finishes to meet the project's acoustical and AV performance goals.

     

  • Seeing the (Bright) Light

    It could be argued that everyone who slings a projector is trying to present an inspirational message, but few can make that claim like the increasing number of large, modern houses of worship increasingly adopting bright, large-scale projection technology.

     
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West Installs

  • The Mercy Corps Action Center includes touchscreen computers, surround-sound audio, wireless microphones, videoconferencing, and projection systems all within a 3,484-square-foot open layout.

    Zoned AV Educates the Public About Mercy Corps

    It was a rush job, but AV integrator CompView came up with a design for the new Mercy Corps Action Center that took an open space and divided it into discrete, non-intrusive AV exhibits.

     
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    Inside Las Vegas' CityCenter

    Las Vegas' CityCenter is big. Really big. From room automation to digital signage, AV integrators left nothing in their toolbox when building CityCenter's massive AV systems.

     
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    Audio Excellence at The Recording Academy

    The Grammy Awards celebrate the best in music excellence, so it only makes sense that the event's producers would invest in top-notch audio technology for their new Santa Monica, Calif., headquarters.

     
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Plains & Mountains Installs

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    One-Stop Shopping for Digital Signage

    When Oklahoma's Choctaw Nation needed new AV throughout all its casinos and a digital signage system, it turned to a single source: Alpha Video & Audio of Minnesota.

     
  • U.S Army TRADOC Classroom XXI Modernization Program. AV integrator: Audio Video Systems.

    2010 Best Government AV Project (Federal)

    The Army's Training and Doctrine Command called on Audio Video Systems to modernize schools at 16 installations. Due to the number of classrooms, AVS designed standard, repeatable technology systems.

     
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    Making of a Denver Museum's New Science Exhibit

    In the sci-fi thriller Fantastic Voyage, a medical team is shrunk in size to be injected into a scientist's brain to save his life. It may have been a little like that working on the systems integration for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Expedition Health exhibition, which required a lot...

     
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Upper Midwest Installs

  • Cuyahoga Community College Center for Creative Arts, Cleveland, Ohio. AV consultant: Westlake Reed Leskosky. AV integrator: Zenith Systems. Acoustician: Walters-Storyk Design Group. Architect/design firm: Robert P. Madison International.

    2010 Best Education AV Project (Tie)

    Anywhere to anywhere. Ask the team from Westlake Reed Leskosky where it needed to send AV signals at the Cuyahoga Community College Center for Creative Arts and that's what they'll tell you.

     
  • Boston Scientific Visitors Center, St. Paul, Minn. AV integrator: Sensory Environment Design. Architect/design firm: RSP Architects. Custom curved screen by Spyeglass.

    2010 Best Corporate AV Project (under $250K)

    Tasked with creating a "wow" effect Sensory Environment Design created a custom 4-by-20-foot seamless curved rear-projection screen with 3M's Vikuiti projection film and custom edge-blending software.

     
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    AV Amenities in a Chicago High-Rise

    Chicago's 225 West Wacker Drive needed something to keep current tenants and lure new ones. It decided on an amenities floor with conferencing, workout facilities, and video to the exercise equipment.

     
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Southeast Installs

  • Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, Atlanta. AV integrator: Design and Production. Architect/design firm: Gallagher & Associates.

    2010 Best Museum AV Project

    Twenty-three years after first working on it, Design and Production had to create "blockbuster" showpieces for the Jimmy Carter Museum to make it the most interactive presidential library to date.

     
  • The Block, Louisville, Ky. AV integrator: Mankin Media Systems. Architect/design firm: Bayus Design Works.

    2010 Best House Of Worship AV Project

    The centerpiece of The Block student ministry venue by Mankin Media Systems is a 1,200-seat box-style theater with a 26-foot Da-Lite screen, Barco FLM HD18 18,000-lumen projector, and d&b line array.

     
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    Projectors Light Up the Carter Library

    On the world stage, the United States President projects America's image. So it's fitting that projectors are at the heart of a major renovation of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta.

     
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Mid-Atlantic Installs

  • Peeps & Company, National Harbor, Md. AV consultant: RTKL Associates. Systems integrator: One Solution. AV integrator: Tritech. Architect/design firm: RTKL Associates.

    2010 Best Retail AV Project

    Candy-maker Just Born opened its flagship Peeps & Company store at National Harbor, Md. RTKL Associates, which designed the AV and lighting systems, calls it "an example of brand-focused retailing."

     
  • NYU Dolan Recording Studio/Research Lab, New York. AV consultant/acoustician: Walters-Storyk Design Group. AV integrator: Masque Sound. Architect/design fim: Gensler.

    2010 Best Education AV Project (Tie)

    Virtually every room in NYU Steinhardt School's new James L. Dolan Recording and Teaching Complex was designed to be a live recording environment ... even the bathrooms.

     
  • New York City Visitors Information Center. AV integrator: VideoSonic Systems. Architect/design firm: WXY Architecture & Urban Design. Custom user interface and software design: GestureTek

    2010 Judges' Award

    For a new NYC information center, VideoSonic Systems worked with GestureTek on a wayfinding system that includes three multitouch projection tables with both finger-touch and object recognition.

     
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Northeast Installs

  • The ceiling above the wooden ceiling was painted black. The desired projectors were only available in white. A custom vinyl detailing company applied black vinyl to the projectors, carefully leaving open all ventilation and control surfaces.

    Modeled to Perfection

    What better opportunity to incorporate the guidance of 3D modeling software into an AV design than when the client is Autodesk itself and the project is a new LEED Platinum corporate briefing center?

     
  • Classic Comforts, Greenwich, Conn. AV integrator: Electronics Design Group. Architect/design firm: Shope Reno Wharton Architecture.

    2010 Best Residential AV Project

    The first Spotlight Award winner for Best Residential Project has 14 TVs, 31 AV zones, a 12-seat home theater, and a home office with its own Tandberg videoconferencing system.

     

  • 2009 Best Hospitality/Casino AV Project

    Before Veneklasen Associates designed the upgrades to Mohegan Sun's Casino of the Wind in Connecticut, techs had to hoof it among six amplifier rooms to troubleshoot problems. So from the project's beginning, it was decided head-end equipment would be upgraded to the latest MediaMatrix NION DSP...

     
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