The Weather Beacon, a kinetic sculpture that forecasts weather at World Financial Center Plaza
Weather change has never been more artistic and eye-catching before. Maybe you stop, look around and run for cover at times when the rains show up all of a sudden. No-one gives a damn about winter winds and the lovely spring breeze in a busy bustling city. Well, the World Financial Center Plaza will have an artistic way to weather change, with a kinetic outdoor sculpture that will light up through December the 31st. Known as the Weather Beacon, this multi-media sculpture by Erik Guzman translates weather data into moving gears and flashing lights. So how does weather data enable the moving of gears and flashing of lights? By receiving them via radio waves! These are then transformed into visual representations of spring breezes, winter winds. The Weather Beacon flashes and has its gears moving about through the day and into the night.
