The NiMo Building, Art Deco Classic, 2010

I took this photo shortly after the tower was renovated in 2009-10. Of particular note in the following weeks of blog posts is the lighting in the tower. There will be other details as well. 

The lighting changes with the holiday and when Syracuse University plays an important game. Originally the colors were generated with an array of neon tubes. They were converted to LED during renovation. Perhaps the neon gave a richer color; I regret I have no photos from the neon period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Mohawk_Building

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Niagara Mohawk Building

Niagara Mohawk Building: Art Deco in Blues and Purple Neon

NiMo Building, Masterpiece of Art Deco

Architecture of the Night

To us this will always be known as the NiMo Building. The tower of the art deco building, designed by King and King 82 years ago, is changing according to seasons and holidays, and the colors are brilliant.

Niagara Mohawk was sold to another power company a decade ago. National Grid continues the building's outstanding nighttime light show. At Valentine's Day it is red; for St. Paddy's it will be green; earlier during the SU basketball season it is orange and blue; at Christmas it is red.

[In 1999] Howard Brandston led the effort to bring light back to the Syracuse night. He also had worked with the relighting of the Statue of Liberty and the lighting scheme of Malaysia's Petronas Towers, the tallest buildings in the world.

Brandston considered the intent of the original designers and added modern technology, complete with 894 fluorescent lamps, 659 incandescent lamps, 110 metal halide lamps and 2,010 feet of blue, green, red and white neon lighting.

Dietrich Neumann works as an architecture professor at Brown University in Providence, R.I. He is an internationally recognized authority on exterior lighting and specializes in buildings created during the Art Deco era. "The NiMo Building," Neumann says from his office at Brown, "is a great example of what is called the architecture of the night."

A larger article from the Syracuse Newspapers tells the longer story here. 

King + King's website is here.

NiMo Building in Blue and Purple

Niagara Mohawk Building: Wearing of the Green

Niagara Mohawk Building Reflecting Early Morning Sunshine

Niagara Mohawk Building: Spirit of Light on a Snowy Morning

Belated Valentine Greetings from Niagara Mohawk

Niagara Mohawk Building in Blue Neon

Neon Palette: Niagara Mohawk Building

A new and rich combination from the neon palette, taken this morning before seven with my brand-spanking new SLR. Am I pleased? Yep.

Niagara Mohawk Building

If you live in Syracuse, then you already know that the lighting of the tower on the Niagara Mohawk building is fabulous. 

The current combination of pale purple and vivid neon blue is strikingly beautiful. At times the lighting is programmed to cycle periodically through several combinations of colors. It also presents Valentine Day,St. Patrick's Day and other seasonal themes. 

The eye naturally seeks the building at night, ready to be surprised and thrilled.

Niagara Mohawk Tower Sheathed in Scaffolding