A Shimmering Oak

Pictured here and in a previous post, the recently unveiled Shimmer Wall at the Raleigh Convention Center works so well as an example of environment-friendly public art. Here's why:

• The wall is decorative but also serves as ventilation for the boilers, cooling towers, exhaust vents, and other mechanical units behind it.
• LED lights cost about 80% less than incandescent bulbs, and will last 30 years, or 50,000 hours.
• The fixture is equipped to deal with hurricane force winds.
  

A few more considerations:

• No public funds were spent on the lights.
• The wall will never show the same image twice.
• Controlled by computer, the LED's are capable of displaying more than one million colors.