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Bayer Tower, Leverkusen
The Bayer Tower in Leverkusen is not gona be demolished, but will resplend in new light – not any more as an office building, but as an ultramodern media facade. The Bayer AG plans the transformation of the former company center into a far away visible media sculpture and wants thereby to create a up-to-date visualization of Bayer at the head office of the enterprise. The 122 meters high office tower will be used by Bayer as an impressive communication instrument. The completion of the new media facade is intended for spring 2009.
The beginning of the reconstruction is planned for June of this year. The building at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee will be striped down to the stealing and the floor structures. Afterwards a transparent and weather-resistant high-grade steel fabric will coat the building over a surface of 17,500 square meters. Approximately 3.5 million LED lights are woven into the lattice and can display moving pictures and light shows
Most modern technology permits also – independently of the time of day – the representation of two approx. 40 times 40 to meters large representations of the Bayer cross on the east and west front of the building. Thus the tower becomes an impressive indication of the region and will be far away visible sign. via: www.presse.bayer.de WIKA, Paris
WA is a site-specific video installation created for Knoll International by Gabriel Winer and Dana Karwas. Large-scale architectural projections turn the existing seventeenth century facade into a drive-by cinema and pedestrian spectacle. Playing with a unique two-screen format, the movie re-imagines the story of the company’s founders, how they discovered a minimalist approach to design, and came together to create the modernist symbol that Knoll is today.
The two videos are synchronized to play with, and against, each other, or as a single vertical image, creating a captivating dialogue between the characters on screen, the architecture of the building, the street, and the viewers. State-of-the-art projection material is used to implant the images onto the skin of the building and live editing software (developed by WIKA) remixes certain scenes, creating a fresh version of the movie each time it plays. These various elements come together to tell the story of Knoll the way it should be told, through time and urban scale. via: winerkarwas.com NOVA – 3D Lightsculpture, Zurich
NOVA, a project from the 150-Jahr-Jubilee of the ETH Zurich, is that world-wide first three-dimensional, bivalent color display. The Six tons heavy lightobject can not only display abstract visualizations, but also photographic and cinematic picture sequences. It will hang three years in the Zurich station hall.
NOVA is a right parallelepiped with a surface area of five times five meters and a height of a meter. 25000 individually addressable light balls can light up in more than 16 million colors. Common are two-dimensional displays, which are already present in the main station. Three-dimensional structures with large depth of shade and the characteristic, as two-dimensional displays to likewise function (bivalent displays so mentioned), are still unknown. This three-dimensional structure was selected, because under any circumstances a further wall-like structure in the main station should not be installed. The pictures shown on the display are renewed with a frequency by 25 cycles per second, i.e., dynamic procedures can be shown.
The idea for the object comes from Horao GmbH, a future spin off of the ETH Zurich. The development of the technical overall system as well as the hardware comes from the ETH close Supercomputing System AG, and the software was developed at the computer Graphics Laboratory of the ETH Zurich. Research results from 17 different institutes flowed meanwhile into the project, and the development still continues. Thanks to Oliver Schürer for the hint! This project has been shown at the Media Facades Exhbition Berlin 2008 and was published in the Exhibition Companion LAX, Los Angeles Airport
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the fifth busiest airport in the world, accommodating more than 61 million travelers per year. In 2006 it undertook a major lighting renovation to both improve visual impact and reduce energy and maintenance concerns by taking advantage of intelligent LED illumination.
The pylons of LAX Gateway are visible to airline passengers at 3,000 feet. A series of dynamic light shows was designed for the new LED-based installation, including a patriotic sequence of red, white and blue to observe the anniversary of September 11, 2001. The distinctive, architectural structures were originally designed as part of a $112 million construction and landscaping program intended to make the airport more welcoming and convenient for passengers. They have since become an iconic component of the Los Angeles cityscape for residents and visitors alike. via: www.colorkinetics.com Huge LED Screen for the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar
Element Labs, Inc., an industry leader in LED video technology, was contracted by Doha Asian Games Organising Committee (DAGOC) to created the largest custom LED screen ever used for a live event. Especially designed for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, the exterior Versa? RAY screen made its debut during the Opening Ceremony on December 1, 2006 at Khalifa Stadium.
DAGOC main contractor David Atkins Enterprises was the producer of both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. DAGOC & DAE challenged Element Labs to create a massive LED screen for the ceremonies having the highest possible resolution and video performance. The entire screen is 165 meters wide along the curve, reaching 39 meters at its highest point. The screen is comprised of 20,000 individual Versa RAYs, which laid end to end would span 58 kilometers (over 36 miles). 762,000 individual LEDs were used, with a pixel pitch of 77 millimeters.
The Versa RAYs themselves were mounted onto large trusses with integral catwalks called “spines”. These spines are approximately 11 meters long and hold 148 Versa RAYs in varying lengths, from 750 millimeters to 3 meters. Snowdome LED Courtain
During November 2006 BLIP set up a transparent ten metre LED display in the botanical glasshouse of Sunderland’s Museum and Wintergarden for the National Glass Centre’s Snowdome project. Until early January 2007 an international group of artists including Flunk from the UK, Claire Davies from Germany and China’s 3Gi exhibited works on the display using the internet.
ElementLabs LED curtain was used in a flexible free-hanging installation which allowed display of full motion imagery both from within the glasshouse as well as the public space of the park, where there was also a webcam enabling the building to be viewed online.
BLIP’s Display Manager computer installation, using WiFi links to connect distant cameras and image generation provided secure websites; allowed moving imagery developed in other countries to be loaded on to the installation and viewed immediately. Curators were able to change the program of works remotely from any internet browser. This was the first time that the development and curation of a public installation had been conducted completely over the internet. Snowdome was funded by Culture10, Sunderland and Newcastle and Gateshead councils and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Taishin Bank Tower, Teipeh
The majestic Taishin Bank Tower stands approximately 400 feet (120 meters) tall with an elegant architectural design that’s become a new urban landmark in the city of Taipei. Conceived by the renowned architecture firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the tower’s curvilinear shape mimics that of nearby Jenai Circle, which inspired a uniquely dynamic lighting design by Fisher Marantz Stone (FMS).
National Library,Belarus
The National Library of Belarus, an architectural diamond, is lit at night in stunning fashion by 4646 color-changing RGB LED fixtures.
“The authors suggested hiding the light sources behind the glass to create an illusion of a giant color display,” continues Kramarenko. “A total of 4646 color-changing LED fixtures were installed all around the building, effectively creating a monitor with 25×25 meter sides and 62 meters in diameter.
The entire color-changing system was designed and produced by Walter Industries (Minsk, Belarus), a 100% subsidiary of a Canadian lighting manufacturer GVA Lighting, Inc. The system consists of 4646 custom-made RGB light fixtures (STAR), 1349 controllers, 54 splitters, one channel splitter RS485-1/8, one converter USB/RS485-1 and one personal computer. Protocol RS485 was chosen for maximal reliability of the system. via: gvalighting.com This project has been shown at the Media Facades Exhbition Berlin 2008 and was published in the Exhibition Companion Aspire Tower, Qatar
Aspire Tower is a national icon for Qatar, the tallest building in the country and is specifically associated with the National Centre of Sports Excellence in the Middle East. The building was to be completed within 15 months for the Asian Games of 2006, and thereafter a focus for events in the sports complex and national celebrations. The lighting had to be very flexible allowing the tower to convey moods and dynamics relating to specific events. Challenges: vast height of the building (300metres); requirements for visibility at considerable distance from the tower; integration with the mesh fa?ade; climatic conditions; very tight timescale. KSLD’s early practical approach allowed the design to develop rapidly so orders could be placed.
via: kevan-shaw.com Palacio de las Artes Reina Sofia, Valencia
The Palacio de las Artes Reina Sofia is an extraordinary architectural achievement and cultural landmark in the heart of Valencia. Designed by famed architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, the performing arts center makes use of cutting-edge technologies that complement its contemporary design.
The building’s lighting design was conceptualized by CA2L Il·luminació, a Barcelona-based lighting design firm, who specified Color Kinetics’ ColorBlast 12 systems to adorn the building with color and movement. A total of 104 systems were installed along the top of the building and addressed in pairs, generating symmetrical effects on either side of the building.
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