Architecture and Vision has been nominated with their MoonBaseTwo Project for the 2010 Imagina Award for “Best Design and Communication” in the section ‘Industry’.

“MoonBaseTwo” is a design by Architecture and Vision founders Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler for an inflatable Lunar laboratory. The nominated video was produced in 2009 for a large exhibition about 40 years Moon Landing at the Cité d’Espace in Toulouse.

IMAGINAis the annual festival on computer graphics (CG) that takes place in the Grimaldi Forum in the Principality of Monaco. It was created by The Institut national del’audiovisuel in 1981. It will be opened by French architect Jean Nouvel.The very best 3D works submitted in each of the 4 categories are in contention for 11 prizes. The winners of the Imagina Award 2010 will be announced in Monaco during theevening of Thursday 4 February 2010 at the imagina awards ceremony.

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February 02, 2009
Architecture and Vision’s project FioredelCielo won the competition for the design
of the next ‘Macchina di Santa Rosa’ of Viterbo.

The ‘Macchina di Santa Rosa’ is a 30 m high structure dedicated to the city’s patron, St. Rose; every year, in September, the Macchina is carried through the narrow streets of the medieval town, stopping at each major square. The structure/tower is allowed a maximum of 5000 kg and is carried by 100 men.
Every 5 years a new design is introduced.

Participating in the last competition, Architecture and Vision proposed a triple-helix structure, which is winding vertically up around three spheres, that represent different stages of St. Rose’s life. At each stop rose leaves gently fall down from the top, on the crowd gathered to celebrate the patron.

Image © Ideami

The MarsCruiserOne video by Architecture and Vision has been nominated in the Industry sector of the Imagina 2009 Award, in the section Best Industrial Design.

Imagina Awards aims at recognizing and rewarding the very best use of 3D modelling, simulation andvisualisation applied to a particular sector, whether it be artistic, industrial or engineering related.

Modern-Day Leonardos
The Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago, USA, April 14 – September 4, 2006

Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry selected Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler as Modern-Day Leonardos for its Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius exhibition.

«Leonardo da Vinci stands as a unique figure in history but the passions that drove him have traveled through the centuries, inspiring generation after generation of scientists, artists and inventors. His willingness to go against accepted beliefs in his fearless quest for knowledge; his pursuit of truth without bias; and, his belief that in even the smallest parts of nature we find the blueprints for amazing technologies echo in the work of today’s leading scientists and engineers.

There are 40 modern-day Leonardos featured in Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius. Learn about a few of these extraordinary people here and visit the exhibit to meet all the innovators.»