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If Harry Potter grew up to be an architect, there’s a good chance he’d design something along the lines of Tower Infinity, a project in Seoul, South Korea, that’s being billed as the 鈥渨orld’s first invisible skyscraper.鈥�

To make his buildings disappear, the boy magician would simply mutter a couple of words of the abra-ca-dabra variety. The designers of Tower Infinity, however, don’t have the benefit of an oversized magic wand to make their 1,476-foot-tall tower disappear into thin air.

Instead, GDS Architects has come up with a scheme to use waterproof cameras on the building to capture real-time images of the tower’s surroundings. The resulting images will then be projected on what reporter John O’Ceallaigh of the Telegraph describes as of LED screens on the outside of the building. A couple of digital tweaks of all of the images will allow the building to blend pretty much seamlessly into the air around it.

No word yet on how the designers plan to keep birds from being caught unaware that the building exists until it’s too late. But they might want to take a cue from the Treehotel’s Mirrorcube 聽in Sweden.

Situated among a grove of trees, (designed by the architecture firm Tham & Videgard) is a cube-shaped structure with a mirror-covered exterior. The mirrors reflect the trees, sky and ground around the cube, allowing it to blend into its surroundings.

The illusion works so well, according to Telegraph reporter O’Cealligh, that the designers decided they had to find a way to help bird realize they were headed for a solid structure and not thin air. The solution: covering the walls in an infrared film that’s visible to birds, but can’t be detected by the human eye.