Futuristic Enclosure Thingy Proposed for the BQE
It never hurts to dream. Manhattan-based architecture firm Studio for Civil Architecture just released its proposal for a visual and sound barrier between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Regardless of what is ultimately built on the waterfront housing, restaurants, ball fields, passive recreation areas visitors to the open space and surrounding structures will be…
Rendering via Studio for Civil Architecture
It never hurts to dream. Manhattan-based architecture firm Studio for Civil Architecture just released its proposal for a visual and sound barrier between the BQE and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Regardless of what is ultimately built on the waterfront housing, restaurants, ball fields, passive recreation areas visitors to the open space and surrounding structures will be subject to relentless, unpleasant, potentially deafening noise at 85 decibels, the equivalent of standing next to an operating lawnmower,” says architect Donald Rattner, who designed the lightweight structure to encase the triple-cantilever of the roadway with Hage Engineering. Evidently this stretch of the BQE is scheduled to be repaired in 2018 and the designers want to throw their idea into the ring now. You can see more renderings and listen to the 85 decibels of traffic noise here. Dig it?
Oh come on, Snark, you’re just playing games with words.
Last time I looked, Western Europe is right across the Straits of Gibraltar or the Straits of Messina from impoverished Africa.
Anyone who works in our corporations finds lots of highly-skilled Europeans who come here seeking opportunity. Ever hear of Andy Grove, the former chairman of Intel? How about George Soros? Please show me how many Americans emigrate to Europe in search of opportunity, and find it. Is there an equivalent to Andy Grove in Europe?
this thread reminds me of that things white people love thread… one of them being threatening to move to europe.
*rob*
> “100’s of thousands of highly-skilled Europeans”
So, we are down from 10s of millions to hundreds of thousands. Mathemagically speaking, you have gone from being 100% correct to 1%.
> “10’s of millions of low-skill immigrants”
The largest number of these cross the border from Mexico. If they bordered France, they’d go there.
Snark;
Obviously not, as Europe is on a demographic decline, as I noted above. However, it still remains a fact that 100’s of thousands of highly-skilled Europeans emigrate to the US over a decade, as just a walk through Brooklyn will attest to. Added to that are 10’s of millions of low-skill immigrants who know where the opportunities lie.
Tens of millions of European immigrants have emigrated to the US since the institution of these safety nets?
CMU and Snark;
You might choose the European model over the US, but tens of millions of immigrants, both low-skilled and high-skilled, have voted with their feet on the matter.
I could use a socialist safety net right about now.
> “No bust going on in Europe or Japan????”
Oh they’re screwed too.
Of course that European “socialist” safety net means less pain on a personal level.
You’re absolutely wrong when you say Europe is as car-dependent as we are, sam. Just look at the infrastructure…do you EVER see 10-lane freeways and 16-lane roads? No 15-yr old kids ever have cars. The mileage driven is less. Gas is 2x to 4x times as expensive.
What about the hi-speed (and low-speed) trains to everywhere? You can take a train to most places and there’ll be a taxi waiting (or on call) to take you the ‘last mile’; in how many rural areas could you do so here? I can’t even go visit my friends in Claryville (Catskills) w/o a car, and the rest of this country is abysmal compared to the NE.
Benson (where is the growth)…I’ll gladly take the European death-spiral over our dog-eat-dog every-(wo)man-for-himself, property-is-king society any day, and revel in free health care, ease of transit, 6-week vacations, child-care and a more relaxed life-style.