This skyline-stealing mural also powers its building

"At first glance, the most striking part of the SunRise, a recently redeveloped residential tower in Edmonton, Alberta, is the boldly colored facade, with strips of primary color and a lively mural. Called The Land We Share, the vibrant landscape sketch has sparkled on the skyline since its unveiling this past summer. But the mural is far more than a pretty picture. Covered on all sides in a kind of colored solar panel called BIPV made by Canadian firm Mitrex,"

"the mural and the rest of the structure generate roughly 267 kilowatt hours, enough to cut the building's carbon emissions in half. Typically, high-rises generate solar power primarily via their rooftops. But that's limiting, says Mitrex founder and CEO Danial Hadizadeh. "High-rises are exposed to the sunlight, and we can infuse them with panels at a minimal cost, so why not?" he says."

SunRise, a redeveloped residential tower in Edmonton, features a colorful mural called The Land We Share composed of colored building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) panels. The mural and façade panels produce roughly 267 kilowatt-hours, cutting the building's carbon emissions by about half. Mitrex developed the colored BIPV panels, solving technical challenges to make them safe, easy to install, color-customizable, noncombustible, and cost competitive with other façade materials. The company plans a new model aimed to be cost competitive with aluminum cladding and targets broader deployment across real estate portfolios to lower energy costs. Vertical façade arrays produce less than rooftop panels but still yield meaningful solar generation.

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