Meet the 2010 Spotlight Award Winners

At InfoComm 2010 in Las Vegas, with little fanfare but with lots of guests in attendance, we announced the winners of the 2010 PRO AV Spotlight Awards. In their third year, the Spotlight Awards recognize excellence in professional audiovisual installations. This year's winners range from a New York City wayfinding application to an Army distance learning system.

 

Spotlight Awards by Year

Spotlight Awards 2010

  • 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.

     
  • 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.

     
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Spotlight Awards 2009

  • 2009 PRO AV Spotlight Awards

    Meet the 15 winners of the second annual PRO AV Spotlight Awards, projects that vary in complexity, scope, and budget, but share common traits, like the latest AV technology and successful coordination among AV integrator, consultant, architect, end user.

     

  • 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 Best Education AV Project (Under $250K)

    You can't tell from this picture, but the third-floor eye lab at the Illinois College of Optometry is actually shaped like an eye. Within that space is room enough for 18 refracting lanes (the place where eye exams, and in this case learning, happens) equipped with LCD monitors, to which an...

     
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Spotlight Awards 2008

  • 2008 Judges' Award: Adopt-A-Room

    Losing their young daughters to chronic childhood illnesses drove Brian Schepperle and David Millington to form Adopt-A-Room, a White Bear Lake, Minn.–based foundation that draws on corporate sponsorships and donations to remodel pediatric hospital rooms to help children and their parents better...

     

  • 2008 Judges' Award: Oneworld Lounge

    Ever wonder, while stuck waiting for a delayed flight, what it's like in those first- and business-class lounges? The Oneworld Lounge at Los Angeles International Airport is probably just as you imagined: a comfy-but-slick retreat offering free food and drinks, plus really cool AV extras you would...

     

  • 2008 Best Government AV Project (Federal)

    Chantilly, V.A., is a long way from the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific Headquarters in Hawaii. But on the integration floor of Audio Video Systems in suburban Washington, D.C., there's a custom-designed watch station that's almost identical to the 35 that sit on the watch floor of MARFORPAC's...

     
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Spotlight Awards Installs by Region

West Spotlight Awards Installs

  • 2009 Best Education AV Project

    The future of AV is now at the University of Nevada Reno's new Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, a 300,000-square-foot facility and home to more than 1 million volumes. Impressively, it includes an all-fiber HD distribution system. Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams designed the building's AV...

     

  • 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...

     
  • 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.

     
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Plains & Mountains Spotlight Awards Installs

  • 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.

     

  • CCS Opens New Mexico Office

    National AV integrator CCS Presentation Systems announced the opening of a new location in Albuquerque, N.M.

     

  • 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...

     
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Upper Midwest Spotlight Awards 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.

     

  • 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.

     
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Southeast Spotlight Awards 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.

     

  • 2009 Best Health Care AV Project

    Imagine you're a child going in for an MRI or CT scan. It can be a scary experience. At Miami's Baptist Country Walk Pediatric MRI Center, the modest, creative AV system design puts young minds at ease.

     
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Mid-Atlantic Spotlight Awards 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 Spotlight Awards Installs

  • 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...

     

  • 2009 Judges' Award: Harvard Decision Science Laboratory

    Now here's a different kind of integration project. Premier Network Solutions was tasked with integrating AV with a human physiological monitoring system from Mindware Technologies at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The latter wanted to study how human emotional and physical responses to...

     
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2010 PRO AV Spotlight Awards