A T-shaped pattern has scooped a 5,000 honor in a contest to find the next era of physical phenomenon pylons.
Danish engineering definite Bystrup beat 250 rivals to win the Royal Institute of British Architects contest.
It set the dare to reinstate the aware "triangle" pattern - in use given the 1920s - in May, nonetheless there is no undertaking to erect them.
An stepping up number of pylons are approaching to be indispensable to link up new wind, chief and hydroelectric plants.
Bystrup's designer Rasmus Jessing mentioned he directed for a more certain figure than the normal "grumpy aged men" design, as they are well known in Denmark, to bring new forms of renewable energy.
"Hopefully in the next couple of years it will be time for T - the T-pylon," he said.
Six entries shortlisted in the competition, organized with the Department of Energy and Climate Change and appetite definite National Grid, have been on uncover in London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The 5 runners-up received 1,000 each.
The jury - that enclosed Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, heading architects and appetite officials - rated entries on pattern quality, functionality, and technical viability.
After mission for entries to be "both grounded in reality and beautiful", the judges took in to account the open reply to the designs and the teams' abilities to emanate them.
Mr Huhne praised the T-pylon as "an innovative pattern that is simple, exemplary and practical".
"Its clever make up moreover means that it will be sufficient shorter and not as big than existing pylons and thus reduction intrusive," he added.
There are more than 88,000 pylons in the UK, carrying up to 400,000 volts of physical phenomenon over thousands of miles.
Most are about 50m (165ft) high and import a few 30 tonnes but Bystrup says the 20-tonne T-pylon would mount at only 32m (105ft).
The steel could be embellished to merge in with the countryside, whilst a immaculate steel chronicle for coastal areas would offer insurance against gnawing from airborne salt, it says.
National Grid says it wants to work with Bystrup and two others: Essex-based New Town Studio - that written the lattice-framed Totem pylon - and Ian Ritchie Architects, of London, with its smooth Silhouette.
Organisers say the aim of shortening CO emissions by 80% by 2050 will lead to physical phenomenon personification an increasingly critical purpose in the UK's appetite mix.
A successive proliferation of pylons and subterraneous cables "have the prospective to renovate the landscapes for great or bad, and for generations to come", they said.
Campaigners often protest that pylons corrupt the countryside, whilst Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt described damage they result in as "beyond belief" in a Parliamentary discuss in July.
However, it is 10 times as costly to lay subterraneous cables that are moreover more tough and costly to repair.
And the 1920s pylons keep a few fans.
Flash Bristow, from the Pylon Appreciation Society, mentioned they were an "elegant engineering solution".
"Existing pylons we conclude because they're a hideaway design, so when you look at the pylon what you see, a lot of it, is obviously the credentials forthcoming through."
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