Dexia Towers Show Weather Forecast To Brussels With 72,000 Rainbow LEDs

Inhabitat.com:

Thinking about turning on the news or heading to Weather.com to check out the forecast? Bo-ring! Wouldn't it be infinitely cooler if you could just glance over at a giant skyscraper illuminated by a rainbow of 72,000 LEDs to let you know whether it was going to rain or be sunny? Well that's exactly what the Dexia Towers in Brussels do.

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Comments

[Tom Joad]

08:18 PM on 07/18/2010

If you're outside looking at this building, don't you already know what the weather is?

[Netflyer]

11:17 AM on 07/17/2010

Sure, lets waste energy to tell you how much energy you will need tomorrow to escape the weather... doh!

[Sheldon101]

12:58 PM on 07/16/2010

We don't need no stinkin' thermometer to beat Baker City.

We got the weather beacon that tops out at 321 feet.

I don't know if they still do it, but at one time, if you went into the building, they handed out wallet size cards with info on the weather beacon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Life_Building#Weather_beacon

[plzchuteme]

07:20 AM on 07/16/2010

When I was a child, a local bank had a huge "weather ball," perched on the top of it's headquarters building, downtown, and smaller ones scattered around the city on branch offices and billboards. It would glow different colors to indicate the forecast weather and blink for precipitation. There was a nice little jingle to help remember what the colors meant. That was a long time ago, but it was as accurate as today's forecasts with the "rock star," weathermen and women with their satellite tracking and doppler weather radar. I miss it.

[whatsthatsound]

10:50 PM on 07/15/2010

145 meters? That ain't no skyscraper!
The commonly used term for buildings under 200 meters is "high rise".

[Tom Joad]

09:57 PM on 07/15/2010

LEDs use 90% less energy than incandescent bulbs...but imagine how much energy they would save if they turned off all 72,000 LEDs...

[hypnotoad72]

07:10 PM on 07/18/2010

True, but - for example - if a foodstuff is promoted as having 1/3rd the amount of carbs and fat, you then don't go and eat 3 of them as a result? :)

Thankfully all of those lights aren't incandescent bulbs, but it still isn't cheap to light up. :(

[Usless comment]

08:15 PM on 07/15/2010

Seriously? What a waste of money. Right below those lights there is a homeless man looking for food. At least he can see what he is looking for a little better now I guess.

[tjconkster]

06:41 PM on 07/15/2010

On first glance I thought they were forecasting the latest airport travel advisory.....

That is a pretty cool photo...

[cosmiCataclysm]

06:27 PM on 07/15/2010

Looks awesome!

[maverick77]

06:05 PM on 07/15/2010

Rainbow lights...so according to the picture above, today's forecast is...gay marriage?

Woohoo, yay Argentina.

[zumajim]

06:04 PM on 07/15/2010

OK, now that's just plain cool. I could see us using something like that in So Cal for indicating smog levels, seismic events, how much BS is spewing from Sacramento... endless possibilities!

[nexxtep54]

05:22 PM on 07/15/2010

I can see them doing this on the new WTC site . . . for the terror alert level.

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[DoUntoOthers]

03:59 PM on 07/15/2010

So... Baker, California loses its crown as the city with the tallest thermometer?

[steve11407]

01:08 PM on 07/15/2010

Cool!!!

[PerfSeeker]

01:07 PM on 07/15/2010

What a waste of electricity. People can find out what the forecast is going to be on Weather.com. How many people are gonna see the building anyways?

[relikx]

02:56 PM on 07/15/2010

Get off your computer now before you waste any more electricity.