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fxfowle wins bridge competition
The winner for Dubai's newest bridge was announced recently. Fxfowle drew its inspiration form the city's rivers and near by sand dunes. The result is an elegant arched bridge that as built will be worlds largest and tallest spanning (arch bridge).
So Dubai will add to it's collection of tallest man-made objects. It already has the tallest building in world in Burj Dubai and Al Burj, which is targeted to be taller than Burj Dubai, has started construction. The race to be biggest and largest continues on - and it's mostly one-sided.
via: world architecture news
3 Comments
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Comment by Guillaume Ehrmann on April 3, 2008 at 9:38pm - It seems to me that there is something obscene about all this giganticism and bigger-than-thou attitude in Dubai. I mean the perspective view (this blog post cover) seen from the point of view of an arrival by car onto these bridges, looks likes one is traveling very fast into a huge ass ... maybe it's just my personal perverted sense, I dunno, but these images do not motivate me in any way to go to Dubai within my lifetime ...
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Comment by Mark Anthony on April 4, 2008 at 10:42am -
Guillaume > do you plan to go after your lifetime?
The first "money shot" doesn't do anything for me. It looks like what you'd get if you were to merge the gateway arch and calatrava. The other two are showing the bridge in it's context and fairly interesting though.
Thanks for the post.
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Comment by Guillaume Ehrmann on April 4, 2008 at 7:04pm
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Haha, ... I agree that as a phenomenon, it does have its interest. The only beauty I can see here is the very logical structural relationship of the height of the bridge arches to their span, but hey ... the one taught curve of the Millau bridge is worth a million of these noodly curves !
In any case, if after my lifetime I do go to Dubai ... I will deduce that I've gone to hell ;P
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