CN Tower - Lighting Canada's National Tower with LEDs

submitted by Krupo
1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago
Unlike what you'll here in the vid, the CN Tower is no longer the world's tallest - but the link I shared in this sentence gives you an interesting little history behind how the tower came to be and what it represents.

There's a second story about the new light system here, which talks more about the LEDs.

I like them

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Kruposays...

A negative review of the new lights, when they were being tested - this is the text from the "second story" in the summary.


If you like Honda Civics modded with blue neon, enormous spoilers and V-Tech stickers, you're gonna love what's happening to Toronto's most iconic structure.

Management of Canada's National Tower (formerly the Canadian National Tower) have begun testing the unfortunate new animated LEDs that were recently installed, dramatically transforming a brilliant exercise in modernist subtlety into a cheap, plastic martini spear. The "intelligent LED" colour effects will permanently go live after a launch event at sunset on June 28.

Environmentally, the new lighting system uses 10% less energy than conventional illumination (and 60% less than the previous dimly-lit setup, which was dismantled in 1996). The 1,330 LED panels are each about the size of a shoebox and the system is designed by Color Kinetics of Boston. The panels are located up the central shaft windows, at the base of each tier of the upper mast, and around the "bubble" beneath the Sky Pod.

The lighting effects are microprocessor controlled and can be animated in psychedelic patterns and in virtually any combination of colours. Last night's gaudy, rapidly-changing colours alarmed many Torontonians, though CN Tower management claims the lighting will be more subtle and won't be shifting as rapidly as it has been during testing.

We'll see about that. We think that whatever happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas.


Since installation I've found them to look really cool, giving new 'visual life' to the venerable tower.

Lethinsays...

Altho the Burj Dubai is in theory the tallest mand made building, its incomplete and off limits to most people. so as it stands the CN tower still is considered the tallest Viewing platform in the world.

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