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Hi-Rise Uses LED Covered Exterior To Display Time And Weather

Hi-Rise Uses LED Covered Exterior To Display Time And Weather

By Kyle Studstill on February 2, 2010

The Dexia Tower is a Brussels high-rise with an illumination system designed by Lab[au] to visualize time through the use of color. Part of Lab[au]‘s “Who’s Afraid of Red, Green, and Blue?” project, the tower currently uses different combinations of light and color to represent the time of day, while plans are in progress to integrate representations of the weather as well.

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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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