Again, the Iconic Award nom­i­nated a Moni­teurs pro­ject as a win­ner in the cat­e­gory Com­mu­ni­ca­tion/​Guid­ance sys­tem. The in­ter­na­tional ar­chi­tec­ture and de­sign com­pe­ti­tion fo­cus on the in­ter­play be­tween all the dis­ci­plines in the ar­chi­tec­ture, con­struc­tion and real es­tate sec­tor and the de­sign and pro­duc­tive in­dus­tries. >Win­ner

Af­ter its clos­ing, the Air­port Berlin Tegel will turn into a re­search and in­dus­trial park. For the 550 ha big ter­ri­tory the Tegel Pro­jekt GmbH was look­ing for a part­ner to de­velop an in­te­grated Wayfind­ing sys­tem. PSY:PLAN an d Moni­teurs ap­plied to­gether and have been awarded for the pro­ject. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: Re­icher Haase As­soci­ierte

The In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence “Foot­bridge” or­gan­ised by the Chair of Con­cep­tual and Struc­tural De­sign at TU Berlin wel­comes many bridge de­sign­ers and builders from all over the world to share their views, to ex­change ideas, to learn and to meet col­leagues and friends. Moni­teurs de­signed the new Cor­po­rate de­sign and im­ple­mented it into the whole event in­for­ma­tion ma­te­r­ial like poster, flyer and the web­site for the 6th con­fer­ence in Berlin. >foot­bridge2017.com

33pt, the Graphic De­sign Con­fer­ence at the FH Dort­mund and the Köln In­ter­na­tional School of De­sign (KISD) goes in to the next round. Un­der the guests from eu­rope of the al­ready 7th con­fer­ence also is Sibylle Schlaich from Moni­teurs. >33pt

Mannheim has a new art gallery. The ar­chi­tec­tonic idea of the city within the city needs to be re­al­ized with the new build­ing. The ar­chi­tects are gmp - Ar­chitek­ten von Gerkan, Marg und Part­ner. To change the struc­tural cor­po­rate de­sign, the foun­da­tion held a com­pe­ti­tion, se­lect­ing the team of Axel Ku­fus and Moni­teurs. A dis­tinc­tive struc­tural cor­po­rate de­sign will be cre­ated with in­te­rior, fur­nish­ings and vis­i­tor guide sys­tem. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: gmp

The spark was the com­pe­ti­tion for the One World Trade Cen­ter — sbp has also been in New York for the last 10 years. A cause for cel­e­bra­tion and a rea­son to give a de­tailed story of the of­fice. For sbp, Moni­teurs has de­vel­oped a mi­crosite, pro­vid­ing a suit­able stage from which to pre­sent the times, its wit­nesses and the pro­jects of the of­fice. >Now on­line

Moni­teurs has won the pitch for the ex­hi­bi­tion de­sign con­cept and re­al­i­sa­tion of the vis­i­tor cen­tre of the “Gar­dens of the World”. The In­ter­na­tional Gar­den Fes­ti­val will take place in Berlin in 2017. The cen­tre­piece will be the ex­tended gar­dens of the world and vis­i­tors will be in­tro­duced to the gar­dens in a new vis­i­tor cen­tre. Moni­teurs will be sup­ported by land­scape ar­chi­tect Su­sanne Ya­coub. Foto: ©ww+; Esch-sur-Alzette

In a re­port at the FH Vo­rarl­berg in Aus­tria, Heike Nehl pre­sents the cre­ative work in de­vel­op­ing a wayfind­ing sys­tem and re­con­sider the W-ques­tions: who, where, why and whereto? How does the in­ter­ac­tion of ana­log and dig­i­tal me­dia changes the per­cep­tion? Sign is a sign is a sign – each sign is a part of a sys­tem and all to­gether they build a com­mu­ni­ca­tion chain – what is all be­hind?

What is ex­cit­ing about wayfind­ing, about in­stalling graph­i­cal mes­sages in space, so that peo­ple fol­low them? How is sig­nage con­nected with other me­dia, for ex­am­ple with dig­i­tal me­dia? Sibylle Schlaich, founder and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Moni­teurs Kom­mu­nika­tions­de­sign GmbH, has de­signed and im­pleme­tend wayfind­ing sys­tems for the last fif­teen years. At the Goethe In­sti­tut in Krakow she will pre­sent Moni­teurs cur­rent work.

This spring Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich are again in­vited as guest pro­fes­sors in China at the CDK (the Chi­nese Ger­man Art Acad­emy in Hangzhou). Since 10 years the CDK is the co­op­er­a­tion part­ner uni­ver­sity of the UdK Berlin. This year the sub­ject for the stu­dent will be “space and iden­tity”.