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the new jerome robbins theater includes fiber, copper, and ethernet av cabling to handle both current and future needs.

Future-Proofing a Performing Arts Theater

Here's how the curtain went up on the Jerome Robbins Theater in New York before the AV systems were finished.

Even if the Jerome Robbins Theater at New York's Baryshnikov Arts Center never decides to use it, the AV team that overhauled the venue laid the infrastructure to support current and future systems.

 

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Latest Entertainment & Museums Installs

  • Centre of the Cell, Whitechapel, London. AV integrator: D J Willrich Ltd. Design firm: Land Design Studio. Contractor: Beck Interiors.

    2010 Best Entertainment AV Project

    Education can be entertaining. Kids visiting the Centre of the Cell biomedical science center in East London may not realize how much they're learning as they enjoy the various AV games and exhibits.

     
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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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    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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    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.

     

  • Hurray for Dollywood

    When the folks at Dollywood, the theme park of singer Dolly Parton, got the idea to convert a 100-seat theater from 70mm film to digital–and add 3D to boot–it seemed fairly logical. Such outsized ambition isn't surprising when it's associated with a star known for dreaming big.

     

  • Under the Dome at a Chicago Museum

    Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is known for its innovative programming and exhibits.

     
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Entertainment & Museums Spotlight Awards

  • 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.

     
  • Centre of the Cell, Whitechapel, London. AV integrator: D J Willrich Ltd. Design firm: Land Design Studio. Contractor: Beck Interiors.

    2010 Best Entertainment AV Project

    Education can be entertaining. Kids visiting the Centre of the Cell biomedical science center in East London may not realize how much they're learning as they enjoy the various AV games and exhibits.

     

  • 2009 Best Entertainment/Arts AV Project

    Sure, the Grammy Museum has 16 projectors from Digital Projection, 30 LCDs, 29 HD video servers, 17 audio servers, and 21 interactive exhibits. But the one thing that stands out most is Crossroads, a 19-foot interactive table built by Design and Production to carry visitors through the musical...

     
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    PRO AV's essential industry guide, with crucial tips for positioning your company to leverage: trends in application, spending patterns, economic factors that affect the market.

     
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Mid-Atlantic Entertainment & Museums Installs

  • 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...

     

  • Stadium AV: Boys of Summer

    As sure as Opening Day follows Spring Training, every year baseball stadiums seem to undergo AV upgrades. Perhaps more than any other AV experience, entertainment needs to keep pace with or exceed the in-home experience or risk losing customers.

     

  • 2008 Best Entertainment/Arts AV Project

    It wasn't Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie-style publicity, but if any AV project in the last year could be described as "media-hyped" it was the stunning Newseum in Washington, D.C.

     
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Northeast Entertainment & Museums Installs

  • AV Brings The Action Inside

    The exclusive Club Room inside the Agannis Arena on the Boston University campus features high-end AV that caters to important guests.

     
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Plains & Mountains Entertainment & Museums Installs

  • 2009 Judges' Award: College Basketball Experience

    The College Basketball Experience in Kansas City, Mo., is certainly immersive. As you enter, you hear a pre-game pep talk. Full-motion video and fan noise swirl when you walk through the tunnel. Then suddenly you're in the middle of it all, shooting free throws against the backdrop of a hostile...

     

  • Stadium AV: Boys of Summer

    As sure as Opening Day follows Spring Training, every year baseball stadiums seem to undergo AV upgrades. Perhaps more than any other AV experience, entertainment needs to keep pace with or exceed the in-home experience or risk losing customers.

     

  • In the Final Frame

    Provide clear sound in a very high ambient noise environment without leaking unwanted sound into adjacent areas.

     
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Southeast Entertainment & Museums Installs

  • Hurray for Dollywood

    When the folks at Dollywood, the theme park of singer Dolly Parton, got the idea to convert a 100-seat theater from 70mm film to digital–and add 3D to boot–it seemed fairly logical. Such outsized ambition isn't surprising when it's associated with a star known for dreaming big.

     

  • Bravado by the Bay: An Upgrade for the Arts

    Poised along the banks of the Hillsborough River, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center is a commanding presence. It attracts all forms of entertainment, from Broadway tours to stand-up comedians. But at 11-years old, it wasn't as state-of-the-art as its competition. "We didn't have the amenities...

     

  • Casino Royale

    A new casino in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi helps a small AV firm get back on its feet.

     
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Upper Midwest Entertainment & Museums Installs

  • Lucas Oil Stadium: A Well-Oiled AV Machine

    Though well-known in racing circles because of its omnipresent logo, Lucas Oil Products was hardly a household name in Indianapolis two years ago. So it began to formulate a marketing plan that would take full advantage of audiovisual technology while meeting expectations for a state-of-the-art...

     

  • Under the Dome at a Chicago Museum

    Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry is known for its innovative programming and exhibits.

     

  • Gym Uses AV To Address Acoustics

    A Midwestern university's athletic center installs a zoned audio system to enhance sound intelligibility.

     
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West Entertainment & Museums Installs

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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.

     

  • 2009 Best Entertainment/Arts AV Project

    Sure, the Grammy Museum has 16 projectors from Digital Projection, 30 LCDs, 29 HD video servers, 17 audio servers, and 21 interactive exhibits. But the one thing that stands out most is Crossroads, a 19-foot interactive table built by Design and Production to carry visitors through the musical...

     

  • L.A. Live's Massive AV Install

    Keeping consumers in one place in a competitive entertainment market like Los Angeles, not to mention revitalizing the city's long-neglected downtown area, has required ambition and deep pockets. Over the past 10 years, billionaire developer Philip Anschutz has shown both in his efforts to bring...

     
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