Calling all Architects and High-Schoolers

[Table 5]

Under-appreciated local architects! Students with a dream! Elitist snobs! Dingers!

Your chance has finally come to design the new bridge over St. Patricks Island. Some claimed that it could've been cheaper, some claimed it could'be looked better, and some claimed that their children could've done equally well. Here's your chance to be proven right. It's time to put up or shut up.

http://calgarymlc.ca/rivers_projects/st._patrick's_bridge/conceptual_design_competition_-_st._patrick's_bridge/


Budget: ~$25 million

Schedule:

Stage 1 – Conceptual design competition and screening is anticipated to be eight (8) weeks;

Stage 2 – Public viewing and CMLC internal evaluation is anticipated to be four (4) weeks; and,

Stage 3 – Detailed design will follow and construction is anticipated to commence in 2010.

Milestones:
The following dates are the approximate milestone dates for the project:

Release RFS August 17, 2009
Advertise RFS August 19-22, 2009
Deadline for RFS Questions Sept 11, 2009
Design Competition Closing September 14, 2009 (14:00 Hours MST)
Screening Complete October 09, 2009
Public Open House October 12-23, 2009
Evaluation and short-listing October 30, 2009

[SeeGeeWhy]

Does this bridge have two spans? Better up that budget to 75 Million.

[Table 5]

If Banff can built a bridge for 2 million, we should be able to build like 10 of them side by side...in case people don't want to share.

[CaptainCrunch]

I woke up this morning and was reading a book on ancient times, and I decided that we need to combine the functionality of crossing the river with the fun of an amusement park. We can even make money of the venture.

I propose for 25 million dollars that we buy two catapults and two cannons and four safety nets.

We mount a cannon and a catapult on each bank and a park of safety nets on each bank. Then we can start blasting people across the river.

We can also build a wacky fun pair of rope bridges and a pair of zip lines.

People can be charged the following

$1 to use the rope bridge.
$3 to use the zip line
$5 for the Catapult
$10 for the express service cannon.

Effective cost

-$1000.00

[HOOT]

Make sure there is a nice flat area near the top for CPers to jump if the Flames start slow this season.

[Rhettzky]

Can't we just hire a world renowned architect to do it? I bet we can get it done, with fee's, for around 25 mil. Plus you would save three months and all that short listing trouble.

[Byrns]

Wow, what a waste of time. There's only one person who can design this bridge. Someone light the signal!!!

[socktape]

Originally Posted by Byrns

Wow, what a waste of time. There's only one person who can design this bridge. Someone light the signal!!!

Do we really want a Batman bridge? I mean come on... I liked the Dark Knight movie as much as everyone else but I don't think that the criminal element of our city would like it, not to mention all the Marvel fans. Won't someone think about the criminals!

[Bigtime]

I've got my box of crayons out and scribbling designs already!

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Originally Posted by fotze

The next bridge could be designed for ######s, I love ######s, who doesn't.

Hitler! Do you support Hitler or do you support the bridge?

[CaptainCrunch]

Well since we're going to have a bridge at the front of downtown that looks basically like a giant penis wearing a multicolored condom wouldn't it be logical that the next bridge looks like a set of anal beads going into the rear of downtown calgary.

Then we can call ourselves the sexually liberated city. Think of what it would look like from space.

[HOOT]

Originally Posted by fotze

The next bridge could be designed for ######s, I love ######s, who doesn't.

Well you know what they say. If you can't love yourself, who can you love?

[JD]

Originally Posted by fotze

I thinka Dr. Seuss bridge would be cool.

Well we already have a Dr. Seuss hospital...

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by JD

Well we already have a Dr. Seuss hospital...

No way, that is the Lego hospital.

[Barnes]

Okay, I am about ready to hand in my proposal but wanted to solicit feedback from all the bridge experts on here first.

This is a cable stay bridge consisting of two bridge towers shaped in the forms of cowboy boots at each end of the bridge.

Each main cable is connected to a giant cowboy hat in the middle of the bridge that people will actually walk through. Both the boots and hat are subtle allusions to the history of Calgary.

Because bridges are hard to make and are best left up to the experts I added a supporting column on the island because I have no idea if my cables are strong enough to hold. It is a brick cube that represents the architecture found in and around Calgary.

The entire deck is enclosed in chain link fencing so that it can not be vandalized and so crackheads don't fall in the river.



Whadya think?

[Muta]

This is an interesting RFP that came out, to say the least.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Muta

This is an interesting RFP that came out, to say the least.

Is it different than what you were expecting?

[Rerun]

hmmphh...

I think the old bridge is just fine the way it is. It adds character and is almost a heritage site.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Is it different than what you were expecting?

Not really, just the way some stuff is explained in there, that's all. No surprises.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Barnes

Whadya think?

Does the hat have a set of levers underneath that can tip it forward when rafters pass underneath as a sort of "howdy"? If so, I think "Barnes" will someday have the same cachet as "Frank Lloyd Wright" or "Aldo Rossi".