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Philadelphia's Chemical Heritage Foundation Features Digital Signage Media Column

SEEN & NOTED: PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) is an independent, nonprofit organization that seeks to advance public understanding of chemistry and related sciences. CHF maintains a museum that includes vast collections of instruments, fine art, photographs, papers, and books, and they run public programs that explore subjects ranging from alchemy to nanotechnology. The museum is housed in a recently renovated bank building on Philadelphia's Chestnut Street that was designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, a design firm that specializes in large-scale museum projects.

Ralph Appelbaum Associates worked with Audio, Video and Controls (AV&C), a New York City based systems design firm with an extensive portfolio of experience in museums, retail, and hospitality to create a Media Column as part of the renovation for Chemical Heritage Foundation's museum. The Media Column was created using multiple 18 inch flat-panel display modules that were combined into a 6-foot wide by 20-foot tall column that rises up into the museum's two-story high exhibit hall. The Media Column's multimedia content features the periodic table of the elements. On the opposite side of the column visitors can access an interactive program on the foundation's research and collections.

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Digital Signage Video Wall Welcomes Visitors at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

SEEN & NOTED: KITCHENER, CANADA –  The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario has just marked a major expansion with the opening of The Stephen Hawking Centre this past September, more than doubling the size of their research facility. The Perimeter Institute is devoted to cutting-edge scientific research, training, and outreach in theoretical physics and is one of the largest institutions of its kind in the world. The goal of the new state-of-the-art research complex is to advance scientific progress by providing the ultimate environment for researchers to conceive, visualize, and understand the nature of physical reality, from the subatomic world to the entire universe.

The Stephen Hawking Centre was designed by Teeple Architects of Toronto. Their design strategy focused on creating the ideal space for research that includes quiet spaces for contemplative thought which are balanced with spaces that facilitate interaction. The expansion added 55,000 additional square feet increasing the total size of Perimeter Institute to 120,000 square feet and adding space for more than 150 new researchers. It was paramount to the design that the expansion be contiguous with the existing facility to function as a singular whole.

One of the new features at the facility is a dynamic digital signage media wall located in the Stephen Hawking Centre's lobby which welcomes and informs visitors. The media wall uses an array of 84 Christie MicroTiles arranged in an irregular hexagonal shape that matches the architectural angles of the environment.

“The wall’s design is a fusion of messaging, mission and architecture – and it all came together because of the Christie's technology,” said John Matlock, Director of External Relations and Public Affairs at Perimeter Institute. “The unique shape of the media wall, including a functioning passageway, is in line with the architect’s vision of the main entrance to Perimeter Institute.”

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