At the proposed grand entrance of the new Dorothea Dix Park laid a 115kV transmission line that was functional but didn’t aesthetically match the City of Raleigh’s vision for the park entrance. Pickett, an ESP Company, was contacted to transform the mundane transmission towers into something marvelous. Inspired by the surrounding annual sunflower patches, which welcome an estimated 100,000 visitors each year, the once ordinary infrastructure at the park entrance was transformed into two towering 73’-0” tall steel sunflowers, each carrying 46 stainless steel petals between 8’-0” and 10’-0” long.