Christine Murray, in her CABE-style design review of our Birmingham pylon (AJ 05.06.08), wrote: 'We cannot be certain whether visitors to the civic square will make the connection between this pylon and sustain-ability.' Essentially the pylon was designed to generate a response from as broad a cross-section of the public as possible. As a conversation piece on the way energy is used to occupy and construct the built environment, it is unashamedly iconic and provocative.
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