FIRST PLACE
Beantown’s Battery Wharf Development features a building identification, wayfinding and historical markers. DCL built the approximately 400 wayfinding signs from chemically etched zinc and raised, brushed letters. Fabricators also fashioned the seven, interpretive-history panels with Winsor Fireform’s four-color, photographic, porcelain-enamel informational plaques and painted-aluminum frames.
Fabricators conically formed the three site pylons – with a ribbed substructure and a 3/16-in., brake-formed skin — to resemble ocean buoys and installed four-color, porcelain-enamel maps and interpretive graphics. Each pylon features custom-painted aluminum wind chimes, which the shop tuned to strike a seventh-chord, C-major note when ocean breezes blow.
SECOND PLACE
L + H built this program for the Please Touch Museum, a 33-year-old, Philadelphia-based children’s museum that emphasizes interactive learning. According to Scott Long, L + H’s creative director, the playful depictions of the stick figures and circular structures vary from 8 x 8 ft. to 10 x 15 ft. The shop designs the wayfinding program with SA International Flexi® software and fabricated using CNC-routed, 0.125- and 0.080-in. aluminum coated with Matthews acrylic-polyurethane paint and an anti-graffiti coating.
THIRD PLACE
A desert’s indigenous color palette, flora and fauna provided ample inspiration for the Phoenix-based Desert Botanical Garden’s distinctive environmental graphics. After having delved into the Garden’s photo archive, JRC formulated the program’s design using Adobe® Illustrator® with a CADTools plug-in. Airpark fabricated routed-aluminum panels coated with Matthews Paint acrylic-polyurethane paint and decorated them with inkjet-printed, 3M Graphics Market Center vinyl faces before attaching them to rusted-steel posts. Cherrill said more than 50 signs have been installed, and approximately 50 more will be included during a future phase.
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION
HONORABLE MENTION