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 ...

This design doesn’t look like much, but that’s the point. The slender pole can appear as a tall black lance or as a thin sliver from a different angle. With a convex exterior skin that reflects its ...

TenneT has developed a new concept for high‑voltage lines with a magnetic field intensity that is significantly lower than that of existing lines. The innovative design is called Wintrack and consists ...

Chris Huhne, Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary, opened a display featuring scale models of six striking designs for new electricity pylons to the public at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The ...

Take an everyday electricity pylon, flip it upside-down, and stand it on its end. Suddenly the everyday becomes extraordinary. Alex Chinneck, the theatrical 30-year-old British artist behind hovering ...

The National Grid is abandoning a new pylon project which has cost a whopping £17 million because they are too noisy. The so-called T-pylons design was revealed in 2015 as a 'vision for our electric ...

The architect behind these unusual-looking pylons says they were designed to look as if they had grown out of the environment, rather than standing out as incongruous, as so many manmade forms are.