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What do you do with an old abandoned oil tank? Do you destroy it and build and something else or do you let a team of designers make some art out of it?

Located outside of Helsinki in Kruunuvuorenranta, a residential area across the water from the city, the World Design Capital program commissioned this art project, a group of designers from the Lighting Design Collective punched a pixelated framework of tiny holes—each replaced with an LED. Each of these 1,250 diodes is controlled by a central computer, programmed to react as the weather outside changes.

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The project opened permanently last year. [LDC; Designboom]