Los Angeles, 2009?

Here a short WIRED report about Sonny Astani, a real estate mogul who is planning to bring 2019 Los Angeles to life in the form of two 14-story animated billboards modeled on Ridley Scott’s opening sequence of Blade Runner….The idea, pending city approval, is to install hundreds of rows of LEDs, each spaced 6 inches apart, across the buildings’ floor-to-ceiling windows. So what will happen if our dystopian future movie visions are slowly reaised?

Thanks Sascha for the link!

The FLARE membrane developed by WHITEvoid is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. Each stainless steel flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position. The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders. When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way appears as a dark pixel. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light.

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