bpe235 wrote:Damn! You got an Aint Skeered! sticker on the back of that bad boy? That's a nice truck but does anyone else find it ironic that one of the mods of an urban website drives a big ass truck? Not to mention, that rig is longer than your friggin house is wide!
The irony is not lost on me. BTW, it's not wider than my house. Mine isn't pictured and the neighbors houses just look small. One of these day's I am going to get me a bad ass scooter. But think of the development idea.
The only sticker is a city sticker from STLStyle.
Framer wrote:Right. Developers drive trucks. And drink beer (not at the same time, of course).
I'm hoping for a slow demolition if we're all getting together to drink and watch it. I don't want to pop a beer open, watch the implosion, and then have to slam the beer because everybody is taking off...
If the bridge is coming down, i think they might as well do it in a lavish = stylish fashion with an apache helicopter flying down washington (requsite streets lined parade-style) to a huge crowd roar as it proceeds to fire missiles into the brige amid more cheering and beer drinking. What with more and movie movies being filmed here i think it would be a great publicity stunt for the area- if a little ott.
A full week and two and half pages of quips regarding the demolition of the skybridge.
Can't you tell the bridge is not liked?
Had dinner with a couple of friends who happen to be civil engineers last weekend at the Dubliner. Totally their uninformed guess: but in their opinion the bridge will not be brought down with explosives.
In anyone with common sense's uninformed guess they wont bring it down with explosives. Its a freaking skybridge for god's sake. There's no amount of precaution that could be taken to prevent possible damage to the two buildings it connects. It will probably be a piece-by-piece demolition that will last over a week. Sorry to put a damper on your party guys, but unless youre prepared to tailgait for a couple of days, it wont be too exciting to watch...
Washuslouser wrote:If the bridge is coming down, i think they might as well do it in a lavish = stylish fashion with an apache helicopter flying down washington (requsite streets lined parade-style) to a huge crowd roar as it proceeds to fire missiles into the brige amid more cheering and beer drinking. What with more and movie movies being filmed here i think it would be a great publicity stunt for the area- if a little ott.
Thoughts...
Ahhh, I can hear "Ride of the Valkyries" right now.
I can't believe the 'progressive', urban-oriented people of this board are so in favor of more demolition in the city. Just because this skybridge isn't 100 years old doesn't mean one can't appreciate the architecture and craftsmanship behind it.
Skybridges are rare, and are often a part of the most exciting buildings in the world. Take the Petronas Towers for example - what would they be without the bridge that joins them? That's right, nothing. They are a relatively new feature in architecture, but that does not mean they're irrelevant. They're as much a part of our history as streetcars and cobblestone streets were, and you see how much we all lament the demise of those in our fair city.
Architecturally, the skybridge speaks to passers by - it's a link of the old to the new, symbolic of the adaptive reuse of the building for a new purpose; of looking back to remember our past while 'crossing over', as it were, to our future.
And what would the lot of you have replace it. Air. That's right, not even a surface parking lot, but nothing at all. All this talk of 'density' and 'building up' in the city on this board, and all of you want to take something away that is very dense and is in the air. Disgusting.
Fifty years from now our children are going to look back on us and wonder why we tore down their heritage - their skybridge. I hope all of you are happy with yourselves.
Moving slightly center from RBB's post, it IS unnerving to see so much celebration for this demolition. With all the talk of precedent that goes around here, I don't know if we should necessarily be so happy about this. In a way, this demolition is part of the "it's in our way, let's break it" mentality.
captainjackass wrote:Moving slightly center from RBB's post, it IS unnerving to see so much celebration for this demolition. With all the talk of precedent that goes around here, I don't know if we should necessarily be so happy about this. In a way, this demolition is part of the "it's in our way, let's break it" mentality.
I don't think anyone cares that much but it'd be more dramatic. Meanwhile, I don't see the connection between demolition and culture. Demolition is just more efficient.
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