Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons

Lanxon writes "An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country's landscape, reports Wired. The enormous figures would only require slight alterations to existing pylon designs, says the firm, which was awarded an Honorable mention for its design by the competition's judging board. It also won an award from the Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture competition."

Comments

Re:Wow. Just wow.

[fiannaFailMan]

What a retarded use of human resources.

So you've never ever bought something because it looked good? Thank goodness people like you don't have their way all the time. The world would look like Soviet Russia if they did.

Re:Yeah, they look cool but....

[Bai jie]

Pylons typically have four large legs widely spaced apart for good reasons.

No they don't, Pylons typically only have one large Octahedron crystal in which the tip barely touches the ground.

awesomely beautiful

[smellsofbikes]

I hope they go ahead with this because it's beautiful, and it's a comparatively inexpensive alteration to existing towers that converts them from a necessary eyesore into something that at least some people will actually enjoy. I'll go back to Iceland again just to see these, if they do get installed.

. It's also quite an upgrade for their power system. Iceland produces *enormous* amounts of electricity from their hydroelectric plants, so there's always a need for more power lines from the interior, where the reservoirs are located, to the coast, where the aluminum smelters are being built. I was reading a discussion of electrical systems in a small museum in Vik (I believe) where they mentioned that until the 1960's much of Iceland had single-wire power distribution -- not single phase, mind you, but just a single wire, that carried high voltage, and used the earth itself as the current return path. Any building with power outside of the few cities had its own monster variable transformer so the people living there could adjust the in-house voltage to the value they needed, to account for voltage drop along the supply line.