Crestron Installations Take Two Grand Prizes In Presentations' Best Rooms Contest

Presentations, one of the industry's leading trade publications, has published its annual Best Presentation Rooms Awards and two of the three Grand Prizes chosen feature Crestron control systems and touchpanels.

In the Best Boardrooms Category, the Grand Prize winner is the extraordinary Executive Boardroom at the Merrill Lynch headquarters in New York's World Financial Center. Designed by Shen, Milsom & Wilke, Ace Audiovisual was the dealer on this room used primarily for videoconferences with Merrill Lynch's London office.

In their description of the Crestron-controlled project, Presentations described the room as "a classic mix of old-school elegance and up-to-the-minute technology. This impressive combination of appealing aesthetics and sophisticated technology earned the room our Grand Prize."

Designed and installed by dealer AV Associates, Inc., a Crestron-controlled room earned 2nd Prize in the Best Boardrooms category as well. With a Crestron touchpanel as its primary user interface, the E-Com Center Conference Room at the Hartford, Connecticut offices of United Technologies Corp. "can accommodate practically any type of interactive videoconference and is a flexible, non-traditional use of the space."

A Crestron installation also earned Grand Prize honors in the Best Auditoriums Category, as the Harvard University Graduate School of Education's Larsen Hall was the top choice. Featuring a Crestron CNXRACKX control system and four Crestron touchpanels, the team behind the Larsen Hall system features Communications Design Associates, Inc. as the system designer and Crimson Tech as the AV dealer.

In its description of the winner, Presentations explains that "an intuitive Crestron touchpanel interface allows control of the room's technology, including plasma displays and desktop microphones for video and audioconferencing."

AV Associates also designed and installed another prize-winning Crestron-controlled project in this category, as the Atrium Auditorium at Pfizer, Inc.'s Groton, Connecticut facility were honored.

For the complete list of winners, check out the April 2001 issue of Presentations.