Honor 2018

Archive Dreaming

Honor Award 2018
Best of Show Award 2018
Archive Dreaming

What are the urgent conditions, responsibilities, meanings and future-directed objectives for a cultural institution functioning in the future? By attempting to consider these concerns along with questions of efficiency, ecology and sustainability, SALT’s 2017 program provisionally titled "What If…?" was to be composed of a series of changes to internal working practices, accompanied by five artistic interventions/architectural gestures that reconsider and reinvigorate the spaces, the ambitions, and the constituent relations of SALT Galata.

LAVA Centre

Honor Award 2018
LAVA Centre

The LAVA Centre sits between five of Iceland's greatest volcanoes. The main exhibition, designed by Basalt Architects and Gagarín, reveals the epic forces of nature that shape our planet and created Iceland. Visitors get a crash course in volcanology while experiencing the extreme forces associated with volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.


London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE

Honor Award 2018
London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE

The London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE mixes original archaeology, next-generation installations and contemporary art commissions, inviting visitors to encounter an ancient mystery cult. Buried below London for almost two millennia, the Roman Temple of Mithras is returned to the site of its original discovery in a free new cultural space that re-imagines how we engage with archaeology.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Honor Award 2018
"The Handmaid’s Tale" Highline Installation

Hulu launched its new series adaption of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the dystopian classic by Margaret Atwood. Pentagram designed a new interactive public art installation to celebrates the series by distributing 4,000 free copies of the book. The project was displayed in a high-profile location at the High Line in New York.

The novel is set in Gilead, a future theocracy where women have been stripped of their rights and subjugated into roles as “handmaids” used expressly for procreation.

DZNE Signage System

Honor Award 2018
DZNE German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases Signage System

DZNE (German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases) is the only research institute in Germany dedicated to dementia and all its facets. The task for büro uebele visuelle kommunikation was to create an overall atmosphere, to develop the identity of the place alongside planning a wayfinding system.

Since the building contains clean rooms, the interior design is mainly colored in monochromatic white. To maintain a friendly working environment, büro uebele visuelle kommunikation was asked to harmonize the space partly with color.

Row DTLA

Honor Award 2018
Row DTLA

At the new downtown development ROW DTLA, Rios Clementi Hale Studios used place-led branding to reveal the story and uniqueness of the place. Layers of the site’s past remained throughout the development: faded signage, timeworn concrete and a gritty patina that was important as a bit of the history of the Produce Market, which is still functioning today. A fresh skim-coat would have wiped these important imprints away but celebrating them gives the site an authenticity that can’t be recreated.

Denver RTD G-Line Windscreens

Honor Award 2018
Denver RTD G-Line Windscreens

The Windscreens run the full length of the RTD G-Line, a 10-mile stretch from Denver’s Union Station to the City of Wheat Ridge, applied to each of the 17 waiting areas on seven station platforms.

The idea was to develop a unique work of art linking each of the stations together as a cohesive whole. Ditroën developed a concept to create a visual attraction that engages and entertains riders as well as leaving them with a story and a deeper sense of the very place where they find themselves waiting for the next train.

University of California, Los Angeles, Wasserman Football Center

Honor Award 2018
University of California, Los Angeles, Wasserman Football Center

The University of California, Los Angeles set out to create a state-of-the-art complex for their football program, representative of the University’s football heritage and with the intention of further raising the caliber of their athletic program, promoting player development and driving the recruitment and retention of players and coaches.

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