Acclaim Lighting has announced an architectural lighting retrofit atop the 1499-ft John Hancock Center that stands in a prominent Chicago, IL location on Michigan Ave, just of Lakeshore Dr near Lake Michigan. The new LED lighting replaced a legacy Crown of Lights that surround the building on the 99th floor and that can be seen from 360° for miles. The new solid-state lighting (SSL) system is controlled via DMX by an engineer sitting in a comfy office on the 16th floor of the skyscraper. Watch a short video below to see the lighting in action.

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　　The Hancock building is certainly not the first façade or architectural lighting project on famous buildings intended primarily to entertain visitors and residents based on changes in the calendar or wins by sports teams. For instance, New York City even installed a dynamic LED system on the exterior of its iconic Madison Square Garden sports venue. And a few years ago, we covered a project in Miami that lit the entire façade of a skyscraper.