Veech Media Architecture (VMA) was presented in Munich with the Golden Award in the category Corporate Architecture for their trade fair pavilion for Swarovski Enlightened TM. The pavilion Ambient Gem at the exclusive Watch and Jewellery Show BASELWORLD convinced the members of the eminent jury by the way it sets new standards for the term “brand world”.
The Urban Media Tower for ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) was a central urban feature for the four week activities surrounding the EM_2008 in Vienna, Austria. Strategically located adjacent to the Burgtheater the 17.5 meter multi-purpose temporary building incorporated a 60m² TV Studio, outdoor terrace, offices, technical spaces and three integrated LED video screens for live broadcast. Due to the planned five day construction phase and positioning upon the tram line tracks special consideration and intensive planning was necessary in reference to erecting the main modular structural frame, external aluminium cladding, and lighting/acoustic constraints in broadcast media. The glimmering metallic facade gracefully transformed the area surrounding the historic cultural landmark buildings into a contemporary trans-Europe public zone linked through a media event.
Veech Media Architecture (VMA) collaborated with the WWP-Group on an ambitious project to develop a unique presentation tool to support the European launch of the new design family of autos of Spanish car maker Seat with the Seat Ibiza Roadshow in April-June 2008.
The design concept to create a trade fair interior pavilion for the presentation of ENLIGHTENEDTMSwarovski Elements gemstone brand at the BASELWORLD Watch and Jewellery Show 2008 is based on translating the fascination exerted by a gem into a magical and sensual three-dimensional experience. The form of the space follows the logic of the folded faceted structure, which originally derived from the need to conceal the extremely restrictive and rather banal geometry of the existing outer tent construction and ultimately took the shape of a cut gem. The structure itself is composed of a pneumatic membrane divided into inflated facets. Animated lighting and sound design transformed the space into a spacious free-flowing subtle visual, acoustic and tactile spatial experience. VMA’s long-term creative partner, the British graphic designer Neville Brody/Research Studios, devised a series of animated graphics that highlight and enhance the key elements of Swarovski’s new brand while harmonising completely with the unique luminescent space created by VMA’s gradually alternating lighting cycles. Expertise in the area of new materials as well as the integrative approach to the lighting and multimedia components helped the VMA designers to reinterpret the archetypical idea of a crystal creating an expressive and iconic brand space.
In 2008 we completed the comprehensive relaunch of the ORF Newsroom “phases 2″. The 360 degree multi-faceted studio space accomodates both ORF1 and ORF2 News and Information programming. Begun in 2007 as part of the new program reform within the Information News Department the first phase comprised of a simultaneous transformation from the existing 2003 award winning VMA design into the new world of video wall information screens encompassing the perimeter of the studio and adding variable flexibility to the future program content and presentation.
VMA was invited to design and develop a mobile event structure in collaboration with Griffner targeted at the exclusive mobile roadshow event industry. The first working prototype was completed in August 2007 and has toured extensively throughout central Europe.
VMA designed a multi-functional event space at Studio 44 to incorporate a wide variety of uses ranging from corporate events, exhibitions, lectures/symposiums, and televsion productions. The centrally positioned triangle shaped glass stage with integrated RGB lighting provides the atmopsheric ambience fine tuned for each individual event to transform the space to accomodate the user´s requirements.