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Originally Posted by Table 5
That's goofy lazy thinking Captain. While this bridge was never going to be the the crowning achievement for Calatrava considering the small scale/budget/location compared to his other projects, to think that you can just pull a bridge like this out of your ass is showing an ignorance towards the profession. The engineering complexity of this thing alone is pretty amazing.
If he truly was lazy, he would've given us something from his usual bag of tricks (you know, something white and curvy). The fact that his firm went out of his way to give us something unique that you've never seen in his portfolio is a testament to the effort going into it.
Feel free to hate the aesthetics and selection process, but calling it lazy is just goofy.
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Then why single source the design to Calatrava, because one of the Alderman read about it in a coffee table book and like a foolish woman buying a purse said it had to be him. Even if we didn't have a local firm that could design a beautiful bridge, there are surely other designers across the world that could have come up with something more inspirational then this bridge. We bought it due to name brand and nothing else. We literally bought a gucci bag.
Isn't part of great design being inspired by it, when your spending 25 million on it, shouldn't it make you happy everytime you see it, or fill you with wonder and a sense of awe or accomplishment? I look at that bridge and basically have a desire to go buy a chinese fingertrap.
In terms of beautification of the city, yes we can all point to a bridge, but realistically there's a lot of bigger priorities in terms of beautification of downtown that should take priority over a Calvastra bridge