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Architects Give Weather Its Very Own Mood Ring

by Amar Toor on November 30, 2009 at 03:40 PM

Since we already have a color-coded system to tell us how afraid we should be, it only makes sense that someone would create a similarly colorful metric to tell us whether or not we should wear galoshes tomorrow, right?

That's exactly what a cool new building called 'Tomorrow's Weather' does. The eight-story structure in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Swedish art duo Bigert & Bergström, consists of a double-helix arrangement of 60 glass globes that change color depending on the forecast for the following day. Digital representations of daily forecasts are fed into the structure from the Danish Meteorological Institute, and the orbs' hue changes accordingly.

It may not be as exciting as Al Roker, but it's definitely a lot easier on the eyes. [From: Seed Media Group, via information aesthetics]

Tags: art, denmark, design, top, visualization, weather

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