Posts Tagged: Venice Cable Car

06
May

2011

How to (Cheaply) Beautify a Cable Car Tower

Julia passes on a link to the Venezia Cable Car which reveals how that city is dealing with the visual pollution of elevated transit infrastructure. It’s pretty brilliant:

Doesn't look like much yet.

. . . until you see the full intention and effect.

Leave it to fine Northern Italian design to figure out how to make elevated transit beautiful.

As we’ve argued and demonstrated before, elevated infrastructure need not be ugly – and there’s absolutely no reason we can’t do something with gondola tower infrastructure.



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