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MIAMI, March 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The World’s Tallest Digital Ukrainian Flag and the World’s Most-Enormous Electronic Message of Freedom are lighting up the Florida Skyline this week at the 60-story Paramount Miami Worldcenter skyscraper in downtown Miami.
The 700-foot-tall Paramount Miami superstructure features the world’s most technologically advanced animated lighting system.
Dimensional Digital Descriptions
All this week, the building’s Skydeck Crown illuminates nightly with a 300-foot-wide by 100-foot-tall wafting image of Ukraine’s bright bold blue and golden yellow horizontal striped flag.
Through Paramount Miami Worldcenter’s 233-yards-tall center column, appears scrolling images of flags representing 132 countries.
“It is a mammoth moving L.E.D. mosaic of national colors from around the world -- signaling global solidarity with the embattled people of Ukraine in their war against Russian invaders,” explains Paramount Miami Worldcenter developer, Daniel Kodsi (Cod-See), CEO of Royal Palm Companies.
Following the flurry of flags from six continents, the light emitting diodes in the building’s center column then transition into the Ukrainian word, свобода” (pronounced: Svoboda). In English it means, “Freedom.”
The Freedom words and other vertical glowing images measure more than two-point-three football fields high.
Color Kinetics Lighting System
The Paramount Miami Worldcenter skyscraper is built with 16,000 L.E.D.’s embedded in 10,000 panes of high impact-resistant glass.
The building’s Color Kinetics lighting system can create a combination of 16.2-million colors.
It took a team of 12 technicians a total of three-years to install the one-of-a-kind Paramount Miami Worldcenter lighting system – at a cost of $3-million.
Lighting Schedule | Eastern Time
The tower lightings start during the pre-dawn hours of March 1, 2022 through Sunday night, March 6, 2022.
The tower will ignite daily at 5: 30 a.m. through 7:00 a.m.
It will illuminate nightly at 6:00 p.m. through midnight.
The tower lightings occur at the top and bottom of every hour for a duration of five-minutes.
About Paramount Miami Worldcenter
The ultra-futuristic Paramount Tower is the soaring signature skyscraper of the $4-billion, 27-acre Miami Worldcenter.
It is, currently, the nation’s biggest urban core construction project and America’s second-largest real estate development, which is dubbed as, “The City-within-the-City-of-the-Future.”
Beacon of Freedom
“The Paramount Miami Worldcenter Ukrainian Freedom Tower Lighting is a shining beacon of American and international solidarity with the people of this war-torn eastern European nation,” says Kodsi.
“It is our hope that the lights of our skyscraper will serve as inspirational support to millions of Ukrainians; letting them know they are not alone in their battle against tyranny and oppression.”
Ukrainians Living in the U.S. & Florida
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019, it was estimated that approximately 1.1 -million people of Ukrainian decent resided in the United States.
In Florida, some sources speculate the heaviest concentrations of Ukrainian-Americans and new immigrants are found in Broward, Dade and Palm Beach counties, especially in the Aventura and Sunny Isles communities.
There are clusters of Ukrainians living in many parts of central, northern and southwest Florida and the Tampa Bay area. The exact number of people from Ukraine living in Florida is unknown.
Ukrainian Flag
The flag of Ukraine is a simple bi-colored light blue and yellow banner, that was officially adopted on January 28, 1992.
The flag is a symbol of the land, the Sovereignty of the country, and the hope of the nation. Hence, it is celebrated every August 23rd as a reminder of the resilience of Ukrainians in the struggle for independence.
Blue is symbolic of the calming skies above. Yellow is the color of its vast wheat fields and the feeling of joy.
Lighting System Creator
The lighting system was designed and engineered by LED Smith, Inc. of West Palm Beach, Fla.
The company’s CEO, Gavin Cooper, has created lighting systems for some of the world’s best-known landmarks, including the Empire State Building.
Best Camera Shots
It is recommended that TV News crews and print photographers consider setting-up tripods and live vans in the empty lots located along NE 8th Street between N. Miami Avenue and NW 1st Avenue in downtown Miami.
The best images of the Paramount Miami Worldcenter can be captured from its westside opposed to the eastside along Biscayne Blvd.
The closer the camera is to the building; the more-pixelated the images.
Paramount Miami Worldcenter is located at 851 NE First Avenue, Miami, Florida 33132
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