A huge new videowall has taken pride of place in the entrance lobby of 505 1st Avenue South, a dramatic new office building in downtown Seattle, USA.
The 9ft high by 52 ft wide rear-projection wall has its content managed and delivered by six DLP projectors, each with its own PC workstation running Dataton WATCHOUT to offer seamless edge-blending, overlapping, and meshing of images, all in complete synchronization. A seventh PC is used as a master production computer, running its own copy of WATCHOUT.
The videowall is part of a complete multimedia installation in the lobby of the building, designed by principal consultant Tracey Nash of ProAV Gear, and constructed and installed by CompView. The lobby was not designed with a videowall in mind but, after the building's owner, Starbucks Coffee, decided not to occupy it but lease it floor-by-floor to tenants instead, the whole nature of the space altered.
"We had to get prospective tenants interested in the building and were looking for something that would grab peoples attention," explains Jay Philips, Director of Corporate Facilities for Starbucks. We wanted a signature piece for the building.
