Burj Khalifa · Downtown Dubai
The building
is the screen.
A configurator for the Burj Khalifa's LED facade: drop in your content and watch it run on the tower, live in your browser, at the real canvas size and from the point the facade is designed for. The guidelines for preparing it properly are here too, and if you would rather not build the content yourself, we make it for you.
01 · The canvas
A perspective, not an elevation.
The template looks like a flat drawing of the tower. It isn't. It is the building seen from across Burj Lake, so a circle drawn in the file reads as a circle from the fountain, and stretches everywhere else. Every preview here projects your file exactly that way.
- Canvas
- 1576 × 6240 px
- Frame rate
- 30 fps, progressive
- Delivery
- QuickTime .mov, HAP
- Lit span
- 35 m to 826 m
02 · Pre-flight
Eight checks before it goes up.
The tower unfolds into the flat canvas and the file is measured against the specification: anything falling outside the facade, detail too fine to survive the pitch, gradients that will band in HAP, flashing faster than three times a second. The report downloads as a page you can send to the client.
- Canvas size
- Outside the facade
- Spire zone
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Fine detail
- Gradients
- Flashing
03 · The view
It reads differently from every side.
Head-on from the fountain. Steeply foreshortened from the promenade below. A thin silhouette from Business Bay, two kilometres out. Move the camera and the content follows the real geometry, including the setbacks that cut a logo in half when it sits at the wrong height.
04 · The hour
6:30 pm is not 9 pm.
The early window plays into a sky that is still blue, and the city underneath is still bright. The same file that carries at nine can disappear at half six. Set the clock, dim the city, and judge it at the hour it will actually run.
Bring a file, or let us make it.
Test what you already have against the specification, read the guidelines before you start, or hand us the brief and we will build the content for the facade end to end.
Rendered live from the official 1576 × 6240 facade template. 3D models under CC BY 4.0. .