Urban Visuals » environments

Millenium Tower Interactive Model

Nathan — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:15:57 +0000

In November, 2007 Urban Visuals developed a custom control system for an architectural model of a 60 story tower being built in San Fransisco. The Millenium Tower sales centre featured a tower nearly 7 feet tall with individual LED lights for each of its 400 suites. Additional rear projection panels hung from the ceiling afforded displayed 360 degree views from each of the the floors of the building.

The installation was controlled by a touch screen PC which communicated via Processing (processing.org) and custom built hardware to interface with the 800 wires exiting the base of the model. It was programmed to illuminate an individual suite, a whole floor, and whole sections of the building — the building is divided into three product offerings.

Benny Benassi and Armin van Buuren

Nathan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:54:35 +0000

Urban Visuals’ latest production at the Vancouver Convention Centre was a big hit. Blueprint Events brought Benny Benassi and Armin van Buuren for a double header DJ show, and we provided Stage Design and visual production for the event.

We were so busy with the show that we didn’t get a chance to document, but we found these clips from a happy attendee.

Armin van Buuren

Benny Benassi

A long shot of the show.

As the first concert to be hosted at the Convention Centre, we had to be sure everything went smoothly and according to plan. The ten video projectors were driven all driven by Modul8 on one Mac Pro and three Macbook Pros. On the LED side, we had 600 nodes of Colorkinetics iflex and 14 CK Colorblaze units all driven by Madrix.

Here are some more photos:

Stage Design for MSTRKRFT and Steve Aoki

Nathan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:16:55 +0000

In September 2009, we installed an LED canopy and custom screen setup for the Blueprint 12th Anniversary Party at the Commodore Ballroom. The event featured acts Steve Aoki and MSTRKRFT and was sponsored by Red Bull. The show was a blast, and while we didn’t get to document it much, I did find these fantastic photos from David Lang’s site. The LED Canopy is built of 16 panels each 20″ by 96″. Each of the panels can be hung individually or combined in any orientation.

The video screens are custom built 40″ squares that create two 10′ x 10′ screens. It’s always fun to work with irregular screen shapes and especially screens that are made of a selection of smaller screens.

Some short clips are below the photos.

Check out the full post with more picture on David Lang’s site.

Here’s some video clips we shot of the event.

Nike Exhibit Design Coachella Music Festival

konstantinos — Mon, 31 May 2004 19:12:42 +0000

In 2004 we were asked by Nike to design a presentation environment for the launch of the “Art of Speed” launch at the Coachella music festival near Palm Springs, California. This was no easy task, both the time line and general conditions of a festival setting posed extreme limitations on what we could execute on-site. Nike creative staff in Oregon had initially asked us for something akin to a wind tunnel with a floating presentation screen. As the process moved forward we submitted several sketches outlining initial design ideas. As the time line was incredibly short, we could fabricate very little and had to rely on readily available temporary structures such as marquee tents and trussing normally used by stage lighting designers. In our final round of the design process we were informed by the festival that only standard marquee tents were allowed to be used by any and all sponsors on site, including Nike.