AT&T Long Lines "Oak Hill" Tower, San Jose. CA. 2021.All the pixels, none of the per-minute long distance charges, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51#photography

A heavy-duty Brutalist-style concrete tower, with multiple levels of platforms supporting various microwave antennas, including "horn" antennas, on a hilltop behind a fence.
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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

@mattblaze I think we will, in the same way gasometers or electricity pylons now have admirers. A lot of ‘strictly functional’ infrastructure seems to quickly become invisible (I think it’s partly sensory adaptation and partly opacity ie seeing it but not knowing what it does) and eventually appreciated. But trying to make it decorative seems to mostly backfire, since invisibility is no longer an option and it’s hard to do well.

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