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Originally Posted by Regulator75
How does SPF with Arup (Glide) get 48% of the votes?
I think it's horrible, looks like a giant maxi pad.
Plus those stairs would get ZERO use during the winter months, what's the point?
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It's you and me, buddy, vs just about everyone else.
Personally, Glide looks exactly what I'd expect Rick McIver to want in a bridge. A bland, simple ribbon of concrete with zero aesthetic charm. A plain flat chunk of rock that is pretty much the cheapest possible way to build a bridge.
Quite frankly, driving around this evening I was struck by how much interchange overpasses in this city look like the SPF proposal.
I dunno, maybe the stairs really do it for some people and could salvage this thing, but they just don't wow me in the least - at best they remind me of the stairs we already have on the north side of the Prince's Island lagoon. It's certainly not the ugliest bridge ever - if we had $5 million to spend, I'd love to see something like that. It's just that it's a very boring bridge. For $25 million I want some pizazz. Something that will impress people.
But maybe my design tastes are shit. This may be like the paneling on Le Germain - it's nice and all but I just see 1970s station wagon and Ataris, but most forumers drool over the wood laminate.
Props on having the Bow in their renderings, though.