Perhaps it was just for last night’s Marriott grand opening, but the new convention center’s shimmer wall was illuminated. I wasn’t able to get a picture (the rendering is shown here), but what we saw was backlighting with blue and green coloring that looked fabulous. The best view of this is from the former Button South location.

The wall is supposed to be officially illuminated during the Raleigh Wide Open 3 celebration. Hopefully the “full show”, including the red and yellow tones (depicted in the rendering), will begin during that weekend.

In other lighting news, the Marriott’s parking garage was offering a one-night-only free parking night last night. The deck is illuminated with the same LED lighting system that the City of Raleigh adopted for a level of their parking garage adjacent to the Upchurch building.