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ysun wrote:


这个也得赞一个！
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YpHaAvuiOo

Fargoer wrote:

美国华盛顿州也有个温哥华市。那里也有座很著名的桥 —— Vancouver Land Bridge。

http://www.designrulz.com/outdoor-design/public-spaces-outdoor-design/2012/05/vancouver-land-bridge-vancouver-washington/


不知道设计师是什么人。我感觉这桥比较符合中国人的审美品味。有点 “天人合一” 的味道。

Vancouver Land Bridge aerial view looking to Mt. Hood. Photo: Andrew Brahe 2008


Vancouver Land Bridge "Land Overlook" and sculpture basket. Photo: Maegan Moore 2009


Strolling on the southside Vancouver Land Bridge path. Photo: Ron Odenheimer 2008


Vancouver Land Bridge
The land bridge is a real link connecting back to the Klickitat Trail, Lewis and Clark, and the development of the Northwest. It completes a circle that's been broken. - Johnpaul Jones


European and Native American cultures once converged at this Columbia River site, where the Hudson's Bay Company stood as the first European trading post in the Pacific Northwest. Lewis and Clark camped here, and Fort Vancouver was built here 20 years later. Today, the site features an earth-covered pedestrian bridge that arcs over State Route 14, reconnecting historic Fort Vancouver with the Columbia River, which helped extend the fort's influence from Mexico to Alaska and across the Pacific Ocean.

Learn about the site's indigenous plants as you walk along the land bridge, which leads you up to a grand view of the river and the surrounding mountains. From the south, walk under the land bridge's Welcome Gate, designed by Native American artist Lillian Pitt. Two cedar canoe panels, each adorned with a cast-glass sculpture of a Chinook woman's face, evoke the site's role as a historic tribal crossroads as well as a point of contact between European and Native people.

Timeline
This 40-foot-wide, earth-covered pedestrian bridge, lined with indigenous plants and Native basket weavings, reconnects historic Fort Vancouver with the Columbia River waterfront, was dedicated August 23, 2008.  The event featured remarks by Maya Lin and the site architect, Johnpaul Jones, of Seattle.

Project Partners
Construction of the $12.25 million Vancouver Land Bridge project is a partnership of Confluence Project members, the National Park Service, the City of Vancouver and the Washington State Department of Commerce, and made possible through federal, state and private funding.

Fargoer wrote:



I totally agree.

不过，我感觉这学生的创作灵感一定和“中国结”有点什么关联。小时候一定见过妈妈穿旗袍。 这图形像极了中式衣服的纽子——最常见、最实用的“中国结”。

wherestip wrote:


A morning aerial view from a helicopter during rush-hour of a stack spaghetti highway interchange of Mopac Expressway Loop 1 and Highway 183 in north Austin, Texas

Fargoer wrote:

不过，我感觉这学生的创作灵感一定和“中国结”有点什么关联。小时候一定见过妈妈穿旗袍。 这图形像极了中式衣服的纽子——最常见、最实用的“中国结”。

ysun wrote:

Spaghetti Junction


Steve,

这 Mopac/Highway 183 的 Spaghetti 跟西直门立交的“炸酱面”看起来确实有点相似。 不过在我的印象中，在 rush-hour 期间，那里的车流量应该是这样的：

 

wherestip wrote:

BTW, it took me a while to get oriented. One thing that helped was the direction of the morning sunlight; another was the missing off-ramp of southbound Mopac getting onto 183 North (heading towards Lakeline Mall). When you think about it, it's the only ramp that's missing.

ysun wrote:

Steve,

我原来还真没注意到那条 “missing off-ramp of southbound Mopac getting onto 183 North”。似乎从 southbound Mopac 转向 183 North，可以通过 Mopac Service Road 过渡到 Research Blvd. Service Road，再上 183 North。此外，还可以走 N. Capital Texas Highway 和 W. Braker Ln. 这两条捷径。说不定这就是没建这条 ramp 的原因。有关部门也许会在将来把这条 missing Spaghetti 给添上。

ysun wrote:


我感觉这学生的创作灵感不是“中国结”，而是“纠结”。估计他是想起了小时候帮他妈妈缠毛线球。

wherestip wrote:



Fargoer,

All I can say is the student was either a little nutty, or went to a lot of trouble to be sarcastic

wherestip wrote: Indeed an ecological masterpiece



http://www.confluenceproject.org/project-sites/vancouver-land-bridge/

Aerial shot of Vancouver landsbridge. Photo credit: Bruce Forster








Vancouver Land Bridge. Photo Credit (above 4): Lara Swimmer