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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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    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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    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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    Office Depot HQ Gets an AV Makeover

    When Office Depot called on architecture firm HOK to design its new global headquarters in BocaRaton, Fla., collaboration was a priority. From the low-height cubicle walls to the open layouts of glass and windows, the company wanted everything, including upscale amenities and all the installed AV...

     
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    Green Install: A True Test of Green AV

    If you installed AV systems in a group's new headquarters and those headquarters subsequently received a Platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, does it mean those AV systems were green? What if the group whose...

     
  • 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.

     
  • 2009 Best Corporate AV Project

    ITC Holdings Corp., the country's largest independent electricity transmission company, recently built a 188,000-square-foot headquarters in Novi, Mich., including a new operations control room.

     
  • 2009 Judges' Award: The Comcast Experience

    David Niles' Comcast Experience is a lot of things. It's a corporate AV installation, an AV technology marvel, an entertainment masterpiece, and a Philadelphia tourist attraction. It's a 83.3-foot-wide by 25.4-foot-high LED wall, built from 6,771 Barco NX-4 LED modules delivering 10 million total...

     
 
 
 
 

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