Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 8, 2011 - 06:11am PT
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DMT
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Cosmiccragsman
Trad climber
AKA Dwain, from Apple Valley, Ca. and Vegas!
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Did they make that bridge with a SpiroGraph?
:)
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 8, 2011 - 06:24am PT
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Very mathematical eh? Its brand new, the approaches are not yet finished. A true beauty of modern bridge design.
DMT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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A lot more interesting than the new iteration we are building from Oakland to Yerba Buena (to SF).
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Don't fire unti you see their whitewalls.
Bunker Hill memorial bridge.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Everything old is new again.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I liked this one going up to Torres del Paine... Just a tad bouncy. :-)
This is the Bridge to Funkness!
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mstearns
climber
CA
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This is the opposite of modern.
Some random side valley, Pamir, Tajikistan
On the Afghan side of the Panj river. Taken from the Tajik side.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dingus, that last one is great. We've got three covered bridges here in town, I'll have to take some pictures.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Can there ever have been a more appropriate memorial to a writer than the new Samuel Beckett bridge that opened in Dublin on 10 December? The several thousand tons of steel deck and pylon were fabricated in a factory in Rotterdam, then carried across the sea by a barge labouring in the churning swell. A stately bridge carried over the turbulent water by a boat?
The designer was Santiago Calatrava, the Valencian architect who has made expressionist bridges and weirdly torqued structures a trademark. Never mind that Beckett made a virtue of muted understatement. The writer once said "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness". Calatrava does not think that way. He's in the landmark business.
This is Calatrava's second bridge in Dublin – the first was dedicated to James Joyce and opened in 2003. The new Beckett Bridge is technically interesting: the structure is cable-stayed from a 40-metre pylon. The span across the Liffey is 124m and carries two lanes of motor traffic, one of cycles and one of Godots. Trains may come later. Hydraulic apparatus allows the bridge to swing through 90 degrees in the horizontal plane to allow ships to pass.
Artistically, it is more interesting still. Calatrava has ignored the temptation to use ForEx traders, race-horse owners and other Celtic tigers as a source of inspiration. Instead, he has been inspired by Guinness's traditional harp: the tensioned cables are, he says, to be seen as strings. It reminds me of what Beckett said about Dublin university containing the cream of Ireland: rich and thick.
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Rural PA after the floods
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Cragman
Trad climber
June Lake, California....via the Damascus Road
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Thanks Huell Toast.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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That bridge in Dublin is amazing! Certainly poetic, although somewhat extravagant.
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Donald Thompson
Trad climber
Los Angeles,CA
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Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur, California
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