Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Wireless Cell Towers as Community Markers


For as long as cell towers have been around there seems to be a dearth of original design and thinking about them.  One of the objectives of cell towers is to hide them but they could also be embraced and used to identify a community.  In the following examples the small community of Glassell Park in Los Angeles wanted to use a proposed tower to mark their name in the larger community.


 The cylindrical tower below is based on a design at Los Angeles International Airport that is lit from within while also radiating light outward


This design is based on an abstraction of an angel.  Appropriately enough the City of Angels could have angels floating above it naming the communities below them