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Skyscrapers have always been symbols of architectural, economic and national might, the taller the better. They are meant to be seen from miles around. But a new tower slated to go up outside of Seoul, South Korea, has been designed with a twist: It is meant to be seen–and then not seen. The Tower Infinity, designed by the multinational GDS Architects, uses technology to render itself “invisible,” or at the very least, optically camouflaged.

Clad in a surface of both cameras and image-producing LEDs, the 450-meter-tall tower will visually capture its surrounding environment and transmit those images to the opposite face of the building from which they were shot. With a building manager’s finger on a dimmer switch, the opacity of the building could be adjusted.

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