We investigate the dynamics of pendulum chains immersed in turbulent boundary layers. We combine qualitative video analysis of the artist Ned Kahn's kinetic façades of buildings, and laboratory experiments on a unidimensional weakly coupled chain of pendulums. We performed analysis of both the façades and the laboratory scale model. We show that pendulum waves traveled in the direction of the wind. These waves originate from the excitation by the spatiotemporal pressure fluctuations. We identified two dispersion relation branches. The first branch corresponds to a resonant response of each pendulum at its natural frequency of oscillations. The second branch corresponds to an excitation by the advected pressure fluctuations along the chain. Using local pressure sensors, we show a quantitative agreement between the convection velocity of the pendulum chain waves and the pressure fluctuations. Eventually, we propose a model in Fourier space to describe the magnitude of each branch. We show that at a small wind speed, the pendulum response is dominated by the resonance at their natural frequency. At larger wind speed, the response becomes dominated by the advected pressure fluctuations.