The light frieze of the new Kunstmuseum Basel building has received a Media Architecture Biennale Award 2016 in the category 'Animated Architecture'. After MegaFaces this is the second project by iart to have won this award.

The Media Architecture Biennale Awards are given to outstanding projects at the intersection of architecture, media and interaction design. They have five categories: Animated Architecture, Money Architecture, Participatory Architecture and Urban Interaction, Spatial Media Art, and Future Trends and Prototypes. The winners were announced at the Media Architecture Biennale, which took place in Sydney, Australia, from 1 — 4 June 2016.