In social networks, photos of unusual designs are popular against the backdrop of harsh northern landscapes. We checked their authenticity.

Numerous publics of “VKontakte” tell about the openwork supports of power lines that allegedly installed in Iceland. Among them "Survivor", "Such a planet", "Interesting from the world", "Dead Pages", "The most juice", "Mad World", "Interesting facts" And “Book of Records | Shock" - For each of these publics, they are signed from several hundred thousand to several million people. Users of other social networks have devoted their publications to the project, for example Facebook And Twitter.

The concept of unusual supports for power lines Developed In 2008, the Choi+Shine Architects design bureau. As planned by the authors, such structures up to 40 m high will be decorated with Icelandic landscapes, the types of which destroy functional, but unaesthetic familiar poles. The bureau proposed making towers in the form of a kind of designer so that the supports could be given a different shape and thus fit the structure in a particular landscape as successfully as possible. As an example, designers presented layouts against the backdrop of landscapes of other countries - Norway and South Korea. Also Choi+Shine Architects Created The layout of supports for windmills developed on the same principle.

Building options for supports
© Choi+Shine Architects

The project from Choi+Shine Architects participated in the competition organized by Landsnet, an Icelandic company that Manages local electric distribution system. The jury of the post Particularly noted An unusual design, but the idea of supports in the form of people did not fall among the winners and prize -winners. However, its authors Received Recognition in many countries of the world - for example, in 2010 they became laureates of the Boston Society Prize of the architects, and the mock -ups created by them were exhibited in the Museums of the UK and Canada.

In subsequent years, apparently, it was not possible to implement the idea - at least at the end of 2015, the marketing director of Landsnet reported The Icelandic publication The Reykjavík Grapevine that the company did not make such decisions. Then Choi+Shine Architects employees told Our colleagues from the Snopes factory project that are expected to implement their project in 2017, but have a minimal impact on the process. We did not succeed in finding reports that unusual supports for the power transmission line were installed in Iceland or another country. Representatives of the design bureau in May 2021 to the question of the implementation of the project are all the same declared: "We hope, soon."

Photo on the cover: © Choi+Shine Architects