Cool buildings with high-tech media screens
 

I am interested in finding some of the latest and greatest designs of buildings with screens or images or animated video media screen walls. I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for. I am designing a project with an exterior wall that will have the ability to play movie trailers on it. I'm not sure what technology exists out there, other than some sort of projection system. I saw a building in the new James Bond movie that showed a very new and tall highrise in Shanghai that had animated graphics on a transparent exterior wall. It looked like it was an actual building and not some fake CG movie stuff, and that the animated graphics were on glass.

This article is pretty neat. Asia's big cities are lousy with LED screens.

I don't believe that the building you mentioned from Skyfall is real. It seems that the scene was filmed in a skyscraper in London.

Was it Aurora Plaza in Shanghai?

http://www.artonfile.com/images/Shanghai-17-1.jpg
http://www.artonfile.com/images/Shanghai-17-1.jpg

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/67670886.jpg
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/p...m/67670886.jpg

Thanks for the info Volgus & Three Hundred. I'm quite sure that the Aurora building is not the one shown in the movie. But, I did not know that it had a display like that. If anybody else has something to contribute to this thread, please post on here.

This one in Dubai seems very interesting. Thanks Volgus.
http://insightmedia.info/images/DD-01-27-09_Podium.jpg

The new Wilshire Grand Tower in Los Angeles has always been planned with display abilities on its facade. The design of the building changed pretty dramatically recently, but the architect still says it will have "programmable LED lighting" in the entire skin and spire of the building. I think this is just a nice way of saying it can show images and potentially advertisements. And I welcome this!

http://brighamyen.com/wp-content/upl...3/02/A002L.jpg
image via brighamyen.com

I don't think a large building digital screen needs to be the same stuff you'd see in say signage or a jumbo-tron, concert back drop etc.

I've noticed for the past four years, the Detroit International Auto show has used lighter density arrays of LED's for huge wall signage. Viewed from far away, they still look very high res. The biggest benefits being that you can put them behind glass and your tenants can still have a view outside.

I'll see if I can find that info for you.

The Dallas Omni isn't a screen but it has a pretty intense light show.

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The Target Headquarters building in Minneapolis has programmable LED displays:

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That's super cool. Thanks for the posts. If anybody else has something to contribute, please do so.

I don't think a large building digital screen needs to be the same stuff you'd see in say signage or a jumbo-tron, concert back drop etc.

I've noticed for the past four years, the Detroit International Auto show has used lighter density arrays of LED's for huge wall signage. Viewed from far away, they still look very high res. The biggest benefits being that you can put them behind glass and your tenants can still have a view outside.

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Thanks for the FYI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9MqgK8_ZGc

I forgot about the LED screen that U2 used for their 360 tour.

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How can Shibuya's dinosaur (Lost in Translation) not be listed yet? In person it was incredible.

http://photowalks.manfrottoschoolofx..._29_QFront.jpg
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Yeah QFront at Shibuya crossing is an great example.

http://www.wallpaperpimper.com/wallp...-1280x1024.jpg

/\/\/\ So, is that an LED screen in front of a glass wall?

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How does one properly place a video in a post?

This example isn't on a building, but it is currently the world's largest LED dispaly screen:
http://www.digitalsignage.net/wp-con.../giant-LED.jpg

http://www.digitalsignage.net/2012/1...tising-screen/

Apparently, this is the largest LED display screen on a building, and Photovoltaic solar panels are integrated with LED color lights as one curtain wall system.

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i...na-beijing.jpg

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i...lar-facade.jpg

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i...ll-giostra.jpg

http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i.../00_06-468.jpg

http://www.treehugger.com/interior-d...lar-power.html

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...cRo02WhALmlmiE

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j...63758941475834

http://media.bestofmicro.com/Mediame...-294563-13.jpg

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3627/5...3ab8507b_z.jpg

http://www.fabricatingandmetalworkin...New_York_3.jpg

http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-conte...14-537x368.jpg

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j...63758941475834

http://www.gkdmetalfabrics.com/press_releases/11.html

http://www.screenmediadaily.com/news...14001284.shtml


Here's a random example:

https://blu171.mail.live.com/att/Get...d5c&oneredir=1

Media Glass
 

Here's a display on glass:

http://www.leuro.com/images/cache/cb...ut_680x400.jpg

With the giant face of an Asian Woman?:cool:

http://mokudekiru.com/b/wp-content/u...derunner_f.jpg
Source: mokudekiru / Blade Runner

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The earlier mentioned scene from Skyfall. The movie had an incredible night time flyover of Shanghai right before this scene.

Is that a "Pan Am" sign in the back?

Also, does the massive LED screen in the lobby of Comcast Center count?

Thank you for digging that up. Yes, this is what I was referring to! And, my big question is DOES THAT REALLY EXIST OR ARE ALL THOSE ANIMATED IMAGES ON CLEAR GLASS JUST A COMPUTER GRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT IN THE FILM?

sure. however, I'm looking for exterior usage mostly.

Thank you for the Blade Runner example.

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The animations on the clear glass appear to be reflections from the LED screen from the building across the street. I know they're filming with cameras with filters the exaggerate the blue light. I'm pretty sure they're projecting images on to the glass in real life, as well as images being projected on later with CGI.

If you're asking are LED screens clear in real life? I'm never personally seen one up close so I couldn't tell you for sure. I'd think they would be just because you wouldn't want to block the view of one side of the building.

Tokyo (Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ginza) and Shanghai (Lujiazui, in Pudong) are the best I have ever personally witnessed. Completely in a league of their own.

http://www.gkdmetalfabrics.com/proje...del_duomo.html

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This is probably the best example I've seen yet. A large LED and steel wire mesh temporary construction facade in Plaza Duomo in Milan, Italy. You can see images clearly during the daytime, and you can see through the mesh.

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This is a proposed building in China

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American Airlines Arena

Highrise in Thailand wrapped in media mesh:

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Way cool!

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Another media mesh example. This one is a parking garage for WinStar casino in Oklahoma.

Here's a moving glass facade in France. Watch how the moving glass bounces light on to the adjacent surfaces.
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moving metal facade
 

Incredible moving facade! This one is a pavillion in Korea.
http://www.soma-architecture.com/ind...ilion&parent=2

http://www.soma-architecture.com/poo...n__Day_Top.gif

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motion mesh screen at Pittsburgh Children's Museum
 

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another one
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