The Nightscreen-Gasometer is located in the south of Berlin. With an expanse of 660m² it is Europe’s biggest LED media facade. The LED net is attached to two top rings of the steel frame in an altitude of 80m, visible far beyond the Schöneberg district at nighttime. The orientation of the screen, operated by Megaposter, mainly is directed towards the new regional and intercity railway station Berlin Südkreuz of the Berlin Circle Line (Ringbahn) and the city motorway interchange.

The Berliner Fenster is the soundless passenger TV in Berlin‘s subway. A mixture of current world news, sports, culture, weather, today‘s events, and advertisement is broadcasted on 3,768 double screens in 1,106 coaches. It is a totally new dimension of television in means of the innovative dual display system. There are two displays installed, side by side omitting sound. One display provides all main pictures like TV would. The second display replaces the sound by showing text. That enables to deliver the same value of information.

The screen is located on the northeast angle of the square facing water fountains and benches where people gather and kids play during sunny days. Flagey Square is a hip and pleasant place in south Brussels at the crossing of multicultural, European and well-to-do neighbourhoods.

The BBC Big Screen in Liverpool is located in Clayton Square, close to Liverpool Lime Street railway station. The screen is one of 19 currently installed across the country - 25 meter LED screens with sound systems in prominent locations in city centres.
The premise on which the screens are operated is as a platform for all, to provide local information, and to allow film-makers and other visual artists a platform on which to display their work. The screens are run by the BBC in accordance with local collaborators. The 'screens' show BBC programming as well as screenings of locally made films, event information and sports coverage.

Lánchíd 19 has a moveable, accordion-like glass facade with tiny painted graphics, chronicling the eco-system of the Danube. It is animated by the changing colors of an innovative lighting design concept, thus providing large pictures (e.g. of a fingerprint, a diver, a bottle or simply wavelets). Glass is one of the dominant materials in the interiors as well, creating a sense of openness and allowing movement to become an integral part of the building’s character.

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LED Figs facade is a computer controlled display system made of 300 green molded plastic pixels, each one about the size of a fig, which will be placed in the windows of the Kitchen Budapest Building. Thus KIBU will create a communication platform with the street outside by sending out data from the internet, like yesterdays weather, visits to our site and many other things that fit in 300 pixels on 30 meters.

Gallery Alkovi is an artist-run window gallery which specializes in contemporary, urban and media art. The gallery is situated in the district of Kallio with a working class history, a neighborhood known for both its urban liveliness and young atmosphere as well as its social problems. The window surface of the gallery is altogether 2.5 x 8 meters. The depth of the backspace is only 1.5 m. Media Facades Festival Helsinki cooperates with the Alkovi gallery in organizing workshops and screenings. The gallery is also open to collaborative proposals from other MFF 2010 cities.

The Helsinki City Tourist office is located in the old centre of Helsinki, on the corner of the Esplanadi boulevard, with the Senate and Market squares and the ferry terminals close by. In spring 2009, the office opened a new window display based on
6 projectors which are activated after dark. They are currently used for presenting tourist material and other information on Helsinki.

The new Ars Electronica Center in Linz is an ambitious architectural undertaking that went up in record time. A multilevel structure was built immediately adjacent to the existing facility. Subsequently the entire ensemble was wrapped in a glass shell: the AEC’s spectacular 5.100 m LED facade which consists of 1085 windows colored red, green, blue and white in size of 3x1 meters. The LED lights are attached in groups to the building‘s facade (horizontal and vertical). The colors and intensity of the lights can be changed group by group (RGB based colors). The media facade can be operated by a ‘Simulator’.