Renderings by Tappan Zee Constructors LLC, the team selected to design and build the bridge at a cost of $4 billion, show a structure crowned by 400-foot-high towers that look like insect antennae waving aimlessly in the wind.
Four pairs of masts tilt outward, from which cables splay to support the road deck. The towers are intended to form an iconic image, but they are just stumpy.
This is a site that deserves the magnificence of the Golden Gate Bridge.
— bloomberg.com
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Unfortunately, a more appealing span would probably cost much more because American road builders have lost the technical capacity to build anything not slapped together from catalog parts.
Yep.
I agree and am glad to see this reaction. Pre-fab is a euphamism for "catalog parts" which always seems to get the thumbs up from the slick architectural periodicals. Then again, if your going to build something soulless, why not save some green? Kind of looks like chop sticks.
I actually had a very small part in the quantity survey work for this project, but never saw any documents showing the full design with the pylons… Sad to see how bleak and unintersting it all turned out to be.
I guess I would think it is a Bridge going to New Jersey....so who cares what it looks like as long as it moves cars....and cost a lot....a real lot to feed the Union of the Italian Brotherhood.
they need to watch out unless they want to end up like us out here in the Bay Area - 7Bil
http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_23317695/my-word-bay-bridge-fiasco-has-been-display
Donna
sad but true, the new 7 Billion Bay Bridge span was built from parts made in China and trucked across the pacific and assembled in place by a giant Chinese crane that is now on it's way to NY to build the New Tappan Zee
http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/05/28/left-coast-lifter-to-leave-bay-bridge-job-for-new-york/
I guess I would think it is a Bridge going to New Jersey....so who cares what it looks like as long as it moves cars....and cost a lot....a real lot to feed the Union of the Italian Brotherhood.
Funny. And sometimes there's a lot of truth in jest.
Actually, it goes from New York to New York, and not New Jersey once you're in Westchester County, NY. Actually, because it is Westchester County, I'm surprised a design that evokes such nothingness was approved, if it has been approved. And, for any locals, what is what appears to be a tall structure poking its head through the trees in White Plains/Westchester?
At any rate, s-d-d, your concern is the same one, in addition to others, as to why people don't want the suspension bridge over the Strait of Messina connecting Sicily to the mainland built, which would be the longest suspension bridge in the world (see paragraph 1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Messina_Bridge
And photo:
http://buildipedia.com/images/masterformat/Channels/Operations/2011.11.17_strait_of_messina/images_credit_ANAS_Press_Office/strait_of_messina_04.jpg
And with all the interesting things going on now with prefab in NY...
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