One World Observatory takes visitors to the heights of audiovisual technology

Go up to the floor 102 from One World Trade Center in an elevator with walls that simulate being made of glass and arrive at your destination to be greeted by an installation made up of two rings, composed of 10 LCD screens, These are some of the technological attractions offered by the One World Observatory.

El One World Observatory, that occupies the floors 100, 101 y 102 of the One World Trade Center building in New York, considered the tallest in the Western Hemisphere (541 meters high), was opened to the public last 29 May and offers visitors a whole suite of digital display technologies that they can enjoy from the moment they take the elevator.

These elevators, that go up to the floor 102 in less than 50 seconds, They have their walls covered by LED screens 75 inches of high definition in which while they reach this height the visitor is shown a video in which the 515 years of the history of the island of Manhattan.

 

For the trip down, The feeling brought is like a flight simulation in which passengers are sent on an aerial journey around the building. The objective is to offer an experience where the walls of the cabin give the sensation that they are made of glass.

The observation platform of the three floors and the SkyPod videos of the five elevators of the building have been a project developed by the company Legends Hospitality, who worked with The Hettema Group, the architect Montroy Andersen DeMarco y JRM Construction, as well as Blur Studio.

City Pulse

Upon reaching the floor 100 del One World Trade Center, visitors meet the City Pulse. An installation formed by two overlapping geometric rings, that integrate 10 LCD screens that measure 4,2 meters in diameter each.

The installation, which was created by Local Projects, company that has carried out projects such as the Smithsonian Design Museum or the National September 11 Memorial Museum, responds to the gestures made by a tour guide who wears a bracelet specially designed for its control and it is he who determines which video can be seen: like the history of new york, the most interesting areas of the city or the restaurants in the area. City Pulse has up to 10 different stories to view simultaneously.

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