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Originally Posted by MercurySky
The color of the spire is pretty dull. How will it be illuminated? Are there going to be lights shining up on it from the roof?
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Not from the roof itself. There are a good number of fixtures to be mounted to a catwalk surrounding the base of the mast. Those, along with additional fixtures mounted on the bottom and top communication rings will uplight the mast all the way up to Section 8 (where the guy-wires attach). The rest of the mast will be uplit by fixtures encircling the mast on each of the platforms at 40' increments, ending with the platform at the bottom of section 16.
My understanding is that it will be lit in white in normal usage, and the color LEDs won't be used except for special occasions/holidays. I don't anticipate a lot of continual color-shifting on ordinary days like you'd see at 4 Times Square (Conde Nast bldg), because this is a special and more meaningful piece of historic architecture, and I think there is a sense that sometimes less is more, and this is a building that won't need all of that color-changing to stand out in the Manhattan skyline. It will do that on it's own. Also, with the horizontal beacon at the top rotating and shooting out in all directions, I think having a continual color-shift going on at the same time will be overkill.
That's just my impression from what I've been hearing regarding the limited use of the color.
Having said all that, at the end of the day this is a Durst property and they seem to have a love-affair with color-changing light shows on their other antennae in NYC, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Childs seems pretty impressed with the color LEDs as well....see article from 2011
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...#ixzz1f0qZFxmo