Bones creaking, the clucking of grasshoppers or the good old internet; everyone has their own weather-checking ways. But what about looking at a neon-lit skyscraper to check the temperature?

Well, Belgian design studio lab[au] have prettied up the 145 meter Dexia Tower in Brussels to serve as a weather tool, appropriately named the ‘Weather Tower’.



The building’s 6,000 windows are lit by LED bars, with each color denoting temperature, cloudiness, wind speed and other meteorological tidbits.

Before you scream ‘environmental travesty’ though, there aren’t actually that many bulbs involved, given the size of the installation; each window used only 12 three-color LEDs to fire up 420,000 watts of light.

To generate that amount of light, lab[au] used the reflection on closed window blinds to illuminate the entire window surface.





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