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Oct. 20, 2015 — The new Whitney Museum of American Art near New York City's High Line is a masterpiece of architecture. But what's behind the walls that makes it work is just as astounding: state-of-the-art custom electronics, and audiovisual and IT installations that create a seamless multimedia experience for patrons, according to Cerami & Associates.
Designed by architect Renzo Piano and situated near the Hudson River, the Whitney's new building "vastly increases the museum’s exhibition and programming space, offering the most expansive display ever of its unsurpassed collection of modern and contemporary American art," museum officials said.
Cerami & Associates, the consultancy in acoustical, audiovisual, IT, and security design, designed the systems for new theaters and interactive audio-visual systems throughout the museum. The women-owned and internationally acclaimed firm also provided for extensive digital signage and assistive-listening device system in the galleries, all completed over a 16-month span.
The new technical spaces include an education center, a multi-use black box theater for film, video and performance, and a 170-seat theater with views to the river, a conservation lab, and a library reading room.
Other key players for these technologies included integrator Advanced Electronic Solutions (AES) and the consultants and installers at Mood Media and Technomedia. The rest of the project team:
Owner’s rep: Gardiner & Theobald, Inc.
Executive architect: Cooper, Robertson & Partners
MEP engineer: Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Lighting/daylighting engineer: Ove Arup & Partners
Structural engineer: Robert Silman Associates
Construction manager: Turner Construction
Landscape architect: Mathews Nielsen
To learn more about Cerami & Associates, visit http://www.ceramiassociates.com/.
