The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, in collaboration with The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies, has revealed the winners of the 2024 American Architecture Awards. This prestigious awards program, the oldest and largest in the profession, recognizes the nation’s finest new buildings, landscape architecture, and urban planning projects from top design firms across the United States and internationally. We are excited to share that we have received an award for Best Installation for HeadMaze at Navy Pier!
HeadMaze at Navy Pier, Chicago is one of the most unique projects to ever land on our desks. Inspired by the success of ventures like Meow Wolf and Burning Man with the desire to bring their art and message to a broader audience, HeadMaze Inc have hired zpd+a to help turn this interactive sculpture into a permanent experience that can welcome guests of all ages and abilities. HeadMaze is an immersive experience into a repository of representational interiors that guides the visitor to walkthrough a reflection/projection of our inner worlds and a lifetime of memories. This four-floor adventure will be constructed inside a giant head-shaped space frame on the concourse at Chicago's Navy Pier. Interior engagement areas with themed environments are the crux of this four-story monument to memory, fantasy, and imagination.
HeadMaze reflects and surrounds us with an interpretive mirror of our mental states and emotional experiences, the very collective bonds bind us together as human beings. HeadMaze is an intriguing labyrinth; an environment of rooms and spaces that illuminates awareness about our mutually shared feelings. By prioritizing consciousness raising through immersion, these guided explorations of emotional spectrums dovetail with unique environments that prioritize imagination, recognition and curiosity. The result is an empathetic teaching moment of mental health understanding.
The spectacle of HeadMaze will be centrally located at Navy Pier for access from all points of the city with the desirable backdrop of Lake Michigan and equally dynamic city skyline. HeadMaze will provide Chicago residents and visitors with the endless possibilities of connection, as well as a forum, facility and incubator for artists, organizations, nonprofits and civic agencies.
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