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It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread! Power and Control.
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Pylons? How about these:
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Wow those pylons are amazing.. Looks like they're in Europe, wouldn't have anything so inspiring here in the UK would we now.
Great photos.Posted 10 months ago # -
A cube with so much power and control you would not believe.
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Power and control, try sailing one of these, and theres a design ethic within.
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Wow those pylons are amazing.. Looks like they're in Europe, wouldn't have anything so inspiring here in the UK would we now.
Great photos.Sadly they're from another design-a-pylon competition, so renderings on top of a photo background rather than being "real". Agree that it would be great to see something like that though. Not everywhere, but as something different in the right environment they'd look ace.
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bikebouy - A cube with so much power and control you would not believe.
So that's where the Transformers AllSpark cube is hiding!
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Those pylons are awful, prime example of architects playing at being Engineers, they would be incrediably expensive to build, if not impossible, would never stand up to the loadings imposed and would be incredibly difficult to maintain as well as needing to be doubled up as single circuit outages on the one line would not be possible
And don't get me started in that RIBA design a pylon competition! That doesn't have one exeriemced engineer on the judging panel
No new designs will see light of day as a result of that, possibly some minor ideas may get cribed and incorporated into existing (revised) designs (access etc) but in the uk the traditional pylon is unlikely to change very much, that competition is just a very, very cheap way for ngt to get some new ideas and a means to try and pacify the public over the increase in windfarms etcPosted 10 months ago # -
Awe, sucha shame.. those pylons are truely excellent..
Suppose "let pylons be pylons"
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Here:
Because it contains this:
The Joint European Torus
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Great thread
I'm sitting in the control room of my company's biggest substation at the minute. It used to be a power station that was one of the first to supply power to Birmingham.
I'll go and start taking pictures
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If we all clubbed together and asked Prof Brian Cox really nicely do you think he'd let us chuck a bucket of bouncy balls into the large hadron collider?
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