Sir, – Gerry Brouder (January 24th) may be interested to know that we can already save on costs associated with pylons, as the competition to design more elegant pylons has already been run.
The competition was organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British Department of Energy & Climate Change and UK National Grid in 2011.The six shortlisted designs (selected from more than 250 entries) were included in a public exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum that year, to coincide with the London Design Festival. Most importantly, one of those six designs was submitted by ESB International & Roughan O'Donovan and UK-based architecture practice Knight Architects. So, job done. No need for The Irish Times to run a competition. All we need is for someone to build them. – Yours, etc,
PAT MULLEN,
Kilkerley,
Dundalk, Co Louth.