The 23-story Bank of America Plaza in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,– known as the Las Olas City Centre – is the latest iconic skyscraper to undergo an exterior lighting makeover with the aim of reducing energy consumption without sacrificing safety or aesthetics.
Its project, spearheaded by the building’s developer and manager Stiles, involved scrapping 144 metal halide fixtures on the tower’s signature ziggurat, along the rooftop and several faces in exchange for a system that uses 288 Philips Color Kinetics LED fixtures. The system can change colors and is being used to promote events or causes – like what has traditionally been done with the Empire State Building, which underwent its own facelift several years ago.