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Originally Posted by Muta
You know, as someone who works in architecture... I'm actually not mad of the way the City handled this. They actually had the BALLS to go out and single-source a QUALITY AND WELL-KNOWN BRIDGE DESIGNER.
This is the same muncipal government that RFP's 99.9999999% of the work it requires. Anyone in the industry knows how complex these RFP's can get.
Props to them.
We didn't get a chance to design the bridge, but you know what? Who cares. Calatrava is a bridge legend, and will likely produce something more discussion-worthy than most others can. Besides, everyone got a chance on the St. Partrick's Island Bridge, which people seem to forget.
I actually give the City of Calgary credit for the way the Peace Bridge bridge was delivered... but I do know that I'm probably in the extreme minority on this one.
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I completely agree with this entire post, but especially the bolded part. It's not like they sole sourced the project to someone unqualified as a political payoff. Calatrava is a freakin' legend. I went out of my way in Buenos Aires to see his bridge there (and it's not as striking as the Peace Bridge, imo).
Is everyone who is opposed to this honestly of the opinion we should always take the lowest bid for everything? Because I'm not interested in living in a city of square Soviet style architecture. And if you are in favour of low bidding everything, are you still opposed to the Spaniards who screwed up the welding after they low-bid that part of the job?