Ramus studio: Building light reacts to the weather

888 Collins Street is Australia's first real-time weather display. Towering lines of LED light cleverly combine to create a luminous façade that responds to rainfall, cloud-cover, wind speed and temperature. Wrapped in a luminous skin, the 15-storey 888 Collins Street façade interprets incoming weather data and translates it into beautiful digital visualisations on the hour, the building displays the next day’s forecast from a Bureau of Meteorology data feed through a generative visual interpretation. At all other times, the façade reflects real-time weather conditions collected by a weather station on the rooftop.