A Building Facade Uses Lights to Paint Central London  Jason
Bruges Studio designed a skin for the W Hotel in Leicester
Square, London, that translates data from the environment into a
dynamic light show.  There's an eternal tension between
contemporary architecture and its (older) surroundings, with the
former perpetually lambasted for neglecting to conform to the
character of the latter. A clever new facade by the UK lighting
designers Jason Bruges Studio would appear to sidestep the issue
entirely: it throws the neighborhood straight onto the side of
the building.  The facade enshrouds the new W Hotel in London's
bustling Leicester Square, and it's designed to take images from
the local environs and convert them into a dazzling abstract
light show.  How it works: Eight cameras mounted on the hotel
roof snap pictures of the adjacent buildings and skyline every
minute, night and day. Custom software then stitches the
photographs together into panoramic images that are then
compressed into a 2-minute film. Fi