Sprint’s Fake Grain Silo Faces Local Opposition
September, 20th - 10:50 am ET | posted by in Odds and Ends
According to the Washington Post, Sprint Nextel Corporation’s plan to build a cell phone tower disguised as an agricultural silo in Loudoun County (a Washington DC suburb) has been put on hold. County officials voted to send the proposal back for more debate.
Wireless companies regularly disguise cell phone towers to better fit into their environments, but even then can find strong community resistance to the idea. (Everyone wants great reception in their driveway; but no one wants a fake silo or fake palm tree in their neighborhood.)
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I dont see where the objection should come from.
In my opinion it actually makes sense to mask these towers like this.
Mobile telephone base stations nowadays hugely interact with landscape. There are different solutions to solve visual impacts: there are architecturally blended cell towers, sculptural appeal cell towers (over 500.000 of Murano glass panels), tree camouflaged cell towers, chimneys (chimroof) camouflaged cell towers and so on.
I agree: the proliferation of radio base stations in our cities makes it imperative to face the visual impact problem.