Posted Jun 28, 2013, 8:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Traynor
Thankfully the light show won't be quite as garish as that. Unlike the Coney Island ride, there are no LEDs imbedded in the length of the mast itself.
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No, there are not. That's whey I said it could be something like it.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...dBAP7Fsu3VQSSL
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The spire at 1 World Trade Center will serve as a television and radio antenna, and it will feature an LED-powered light that will be visible from tens of miles away, said Scott Rechler, the vice chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the lower Manhattan trade center site. The light, which will change colors, is to be activated in the next few months.
"It will be a beacon of hope, just like the Statue of Liberty," Rechler said.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines...PBKm9PelDTX2AP
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Inside the shiny skin, workers are wiring up hundreds of individual LED lights, whose beams will comprise an architectural beacon flooding the tri-state area via a spinning mirror. An FAA beacon will also wink on the top.
A short lightning rod will top off the tower at 1,795.4 feet above the north lobby, and all will be lit at night by a colorful array of LED lights.
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http://www.allledlighting.com/author...&doc_id=559438
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Later this year, LEDs from Barbizon Lighting will illuminate the spire of the new One World Trade Center building in New York City.
Some time later this year, the spire will be illuminated by RGB LED lights, and from its top a rotating, 300,000-lumen, white LED-powered beacon will shine.
The outfit overseeing this showcase LED project is Barbizon Lighting Company in New York. It is in the business of designing LED lighting systems for theatrical, film and television, architectural, and other uses.
There has been controversy going back almost a year as to whether the spire should be considered part of the building, for purposes of calculating its height, or merely an antenna (which, functionally, it will be). The design originally called for enclosing the steel skeleton of the spire in a white fiberglass shell. The builder argued successfully before the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to omit the shell, thereby saving $20 million, on the grounds that it would be impossible to maintain. (The building's architects demur, claiming that the issue was settled successfully in the design phase.)
The omission of the shell presented design issues for Barbizon. Lighting a steel skelton is not the same as lighting white fiberglass. As Gebbie explained in an email:
In order to bathe the entire antenna structure in color changing light, Barbizon and Strong utilized some of the brightest LED outdoor fixtures in the industry to achieve the over 100' throw distance from the roof to the first set of fixtures located on the antenna itself. The remainder of the [spire will be] lit from 6 platforms attached to the antenna.
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So now, everyone is up to date on that.
Gareth Paxton
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Last edited by NYguy; Jun 28, 2013 at 8:41 PM.
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