Queen Silvia crowned best concert hall at MONDO-DR Awards
With leading integrator Informationsteknik deploying 26 Genelec Smart IP PoE loudspeakers to provide a unique distributed sound system, Queen Silvia is unlike any other auditorium – offering a harmonious blend of architecture, technology and lighting.
Hosted by the team behind MONDO-DR magazine, the MONDO-DR Awards were launched in 2017 to celebrate the best installation projects from around the world and serves to recognise the work by installers and system integrators using often ground-breaking technologies. This year, the winners across all project categories were chosen jointly by a panel of industry experts, with additional public voting by AV industry professionals. The award ceremony took place at Orlando’s Ole Red venue, during the InfoComm show.
Marcus Haraldsson Boij, technical director of the Informationsteknik team, explained the challenges in delivering the Queen Silvia project: “Despite the relatively small 300 seat capacity, this is one of the most complex projects I have been involved in. The combination of a centrally located stage, the long reverberation time of acoustic classical music – and a design requirement to minimise the number of visible loudspeakers – made it very interesting from an acoustic design point of view!”
The team at Informationsteknik specified twenty-two Smart IP 4420 models and four 4430s. Painted in RAL 1036 gold, the 4430s were the only visible loudspeakers of the entire installation. Two pairs were suspended below the first level balcony, blending harmoniously with the décor. Additional pairs of the compact 4420s were installed every few metres across each section of the curved wall in between the windows, cleverly hidden in specially insulated recessed boxes.
“We knew that with the way the walls were constructed, and the design requirements imposed upon us, pulling cables was going to be a problem,” noted Boij. “Consequently, the Smart IP active loudspeaker family was the perfect choice since this avoided having to worry about housing external amplifiers – and Smart IP’s single cable technology made cabling MUCH easier. It was a great solution for us.”
Genelec would like to warmly congratulate all the award winners, and offer a big thank you to the MONDO-DR judging panel and industry voters for selecting the Queen Silvia Concert Hall as a category winner.
To see the complete list of winners, click here.