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Originally Posted by Dion
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Again, an article full of opinions but short on facts.
How much does this Dallas city councillor think she could build a bridge for where:
- Piers into the river are to be avoided if at all possible, both for the environmental impact and for safety.
- No towers (for suspension) are to be used, due to the heliport located near the south entrance to the bridge.
- The opposing river banks are at differing heights and cannot be drastically altered.
I am guessing she would be close to $20M WITHOUT any star architect. With the same risk for cost-creep as any staritect design.
And as a bonus, a bridge designed by Calatrava will have spill over benefits to all sorts of facets of the cities 'economy' that a concrete span would not.
As for local designers v. international designers, it is called free trade people. It is supremely ironic that it is mostly right-wing types that are so anti-Calatrava. Maybe the European Union should not award any contracts to Canadian experts in their fields and get their students to do all the work for slave wages instead!? Seems like a really good way to grow a world economy....
(I am not going to go over
again how this spending for the bridge was NOT the work of city council, was money specifically allocated for this use, etc. Any person who actually wants to be informed knows this, and the rest... still oppose the bridge for the same tired reasons.)
And Moon, it is not like you EVER approve of anything. If it costs money or changes things without directly benefiting you, you don't like it. Sorry if the rest of us have a bit broader view of how the world interacts and evolves over time. As Calatrava himself said:
“to build things with beauty is a matter of dignity and not a matter of time.”
Claeren.