Articles Tagged “city”

  • LED lighting conserving dark skies

    Several prominent buildings in Korea have upgraded to LED lighting. The optimal green upgrade would have been to minimize the exterior lighting or eliminate it altogether (see Dark Skies). That said, LEDs do have the green advantages of energy efficiency, durability and the ability to control light intelligently. The GS Tower (seen here) has used [...]

  • Night Writer

    One more great “How To” is comming from The Graffiti Research Lab. The Graffiti Research Lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artist and protestors with open source technologies for urban communication. The night writer extends the functionality of LED throwies by allowing a writer to catch a tag in lights. It’s cheap, easy to [...]

  • Galleria Fashion Store – Seoul

    The Building of Galleria West Shopping Centre in Seoul, Korea, is designed by Dutch architects UN Studio, has become the latest, intriguing style icon in the city and a world first for electronic facade technology. Ben van Berkel of UN Studio in association with Arup Lighting in Amsterdam have transformed the Galleria into a perpetually [...]