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Originally Posted by Bigtime
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Good article and we finally get to hear from Calatrava himself on the design and influences for the bridge.
I have a question for you oldschool, since you are in the industry as you have stated before. Does the architect Ron Goodfellow at the end of the article have any ability to have designed something like this?
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Well, let's put it this way, if one is vetting architects based on what they have done, Goodfellow is hardly someone you would name out of Calgary has having the ability of doing something memorable.
There are some architects, who people on this forum, can name right off the bat for doing innovative work. I had to Google this Goodfellow guy...
It sounds snobby, but the awards and publications are the true test of any architects design ability...Has Goodfellow been in Canadian Architect? Azure? Has he won any design awards?
There's a reason why Calatrava is a globally renown architect; he's goooood. If the architects in Calgary were so good, they'd be building, like, outside of Calgary.
Don't get me wrong, there are a few architecture firms I think that have that potential to do something very good, but not something like Calatrava. What would be more difficult is the engineering - the guys here struggle with elegant engineering. The trees on Stephen Ave show that - it is way over engineered.