RIBA Releases Shortlist for Pylon Design Competition

Back in May, we offered up a somewhat melancholic post about the Royal Institute of British Architects launching the Pylon Design Competition, a project searching to replace the massive electric towers that dot rural landscapes internationally. At the time, we were prematurely mourning the loss of those iconic metal structures that we’d grown up imagining as giant robots as they passed by on road trips. However, now that the contest’s shortlist has been released, we realize we had no reason to be concerned, as there’s only so much you can do to redesign a structure whose sole purpose is to hold wires high above the ground except to make them more attractive.