MIAMI — A 700-foot message of support will begin flashing from a downtown Miami skyscraper beginning Saturday night.
The 60-story Paramount Miami Worldcenter building will light up with a “most-enormous” electronic message, the Miami Herald reported. Organizers said the display includes the world’s tallest digital Ukrainian flag, a 300-foot wide by 100-foot tall depiction of the nation’s blue and golden yellow flag, the newspaper reported.
The visuals, which consists of 16,000 LED lights embedded into 10,000 panes of high-impact glass, stand more than two football fields high, according to the Herald.
A giant message for Ukraine will be on display in downtown Miami. It’s 700 feet tall. https://t.co/kXnbg25eTO
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 5, 2022
“This is a mammoth moving LED mosaic of national colors from around the world -- signaling global solidarity with the embattled people of Ukraine in their war against Russian invaders,” Paramount Miami Worldcenter developer Daniel Kodsi said in a statement.
Paramount Miami Worldcenter’s center column will flash scrolling images of flags that represent 132 countries from six continents, according to the Herald. The flags then blend into the Ukrainian word, свобода (pronounced Svoboda), which translates to “freedom” in English.
The building has had light tributes commemorating President’s Day and Don Shula, the late football coach of the Miami Dolphins.
The building’s tower will be illuminated daily from 5:30 a.m. through 7 a.m. EST, and again from 6 p.m, until 12 a.m., the Herald reported.
The Ukrainian light show at the skyscraper will continue through March 15.
©2022 Cox Media Group
