BoA Tower Puts on a (Light) Show

The tower lit up (via Michael Renner's flickr).

The New York skyline got a little brighter recently. We can't say we'd noticed, but it seems that the Dursts have started lighting up the spire that caps the Bank of America tower off Bryant Park.

The shaft, which tops out at 1,200 feet, now slowly changes from blue to green to gold.

Apparently the building's neighbor, the Durst-owned home to Conde Nast, 4 Times Square has also started a similar light show and eventually, Durst tells the Post, the tower's top will play off of a proposed spire at 1 World Trade Center, when ever that building reaches its height of 1,776 feet.

We can't say we ever have a problem with a little more light in our skyline, but we aren't sure we'd really be boasting about how the tower's lights, like everything else in the building, are energy efficient. They're still unnecessary illumination being lit from dusk to midnight daily. Just saying!

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By Garth Johnston in News on December 28, 2010 12:04 PM

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Rob Belles

At http://www.bellesarchitecture.... we applaud the beauty of this light show. In Chicago, Rockford's neighbor to the east, there is an unwritten rule that all new buildings must have a spire. Recently Mr. Daley decried that a beam of light was an acceptable spire. I think on this issue, the Second City is FIRST.
Yes it is an energy waste, but not EVERYTHING has to be "green". I just wish society would be honest - we built a light spire, it uses electricity, and we did it because it is beautiful and we wanted to.

Peanut_Butter

You're right - it IS a waste. But if it makes them feel better to boast about energy-efficient lighting, let 'em. I just love hypocrisy. Makes me feel righteous.