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Transmission Towers Transformed Into Landscape Monuments

September 07, 2010

The Land of Giants is an innovative design concept that uses transmission towers as the base resource for design. Conceived by Choi + Shine Architects, the project recently won the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Award.

Under the project, the architects created a set of towers by modifying the traditional design of electrical pylons (or transmission towers, as they are commonly called) to imitate human figures in different postures.

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