Designed by renowned master architect Renzo Piano and developed by Sellar Property, The Shard is one the tallest buildings in western Europe and the centrepiece of London’s new Bridge Quarter development. With its office space, exclusive apartments, restaurants, five-star Shangri-La Hotel and The View from The Shard viewing galleries, The…
Visitor attractions
BP at London 2012: Fuelling the future
As official London 2012 oil and gas partner, BP wanted to communicate a number of memorable sustainability messages to the public by creating Fuelling the Future – an AV showcase housed within a temporary building inside the Olympic Village. “Our ambition for the showcase was to create an extraordinary AV…
Applications – Museum & Visitor Attractions: Relive The Past
At the Vindolanda Trust’s Roman Army Museum on Hadrian’s Wall, visitors are confronted by a bristling Roman centurion, ready to pressgang them into his legion. He’s in-your-face but entirely illusory, a Pepper’s ghost display conjured up by projection technology. A few days’ march to the south, patrons of Ordsall Hall,…
Visitor Attractions: Technology overload
There was a time when museums relied solely on artefacts in display cases and descriptions on little cards alongside. Today even the most modest museum will employ some kind of audio visual show, combining video, sound and lighting. Similarly fairground rides have evolved from rickety wooden roller coasters into a…