July 4, 2007—Color Kinetics Incorporated has announced that its LED lighting technology will transform the world’s tallest freestanding tower, the CN Tower in Toronto.
CN Tower stands 1,815 feet tall and is considered an engineering wonder of the modern world. For nearly a decade the Tower was minimally lit in an effort to conserve energy while awaiting a better long-term lighting solution.
Following extensive evaluation, a Color Kinetics system was chosen to visually transform the Tower’s appearance while reducing energy consumption and maintenance requirements at the same time. According to preliminary operation, the Tower will consume less energy when fully illuminated by LED fixtures than it did when only partially illuminated by conventional sources.
The project called for approximately 1,300 LED-based fixtures to be installed within the Tower’s elevator shafts, projecting light all the way to its antenna mast. Each fixture is individually programmable and can produce millions of colors and color-changing effects without the need for glass filters, colored gels, or electro-mechanical color scrollers. The Tower will display various colors according to national events and holidays. For more information, see the Color Kinetics Web site.
