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?
either! either! darn keyboard never works the way it should
But its so pretty! I realize I am reacting to it as an art piece, not a practical structure.
Well, we do have a big greed factor too. I think Americans are a very conflicted group.
I also have to say the Europe has gone though so many wars, so much horror over the centuries that perhaps they would rather not do so again. Slow and steady isn’t so bad wither.
This is pretty funny. The noise still has to go somewhere and it will go into Brooklyn heights! This whole section of the highway was built as the result of Brooklyn Height’s power to stop some guy named Moses and it resulted in the first landmarked area of NYC with a landmarked view plain(the proposal is under the view plain so it is technically allowed) The BQE is being systematically rebuilt…some of it has been done already and they just announced the plans for the Kosciusko bridge part. The rebuilding of this section between Atlantic Avenue and tillary street is estimated to be in excess of 1 billion dollars. It may well be the most expensive non bridge highway in the country. the Proposal to build a tunnel under the east river to replace this section has and is being considered. The problem of course is the East River here has many tunnels under neath it already and this will probably be more expensive than Boston’s Big Dig. As for the concept, its nice it may work but it will need to come with a lot of windex.
Snark;
No bust going on in Europe or Japan???? Skipping the “world news” section lately???
moi, confused??? 🙂
I think, well at least I was referring to sam’s comment that Americans are anti-urban and I thought that was related to our self-fantasy of the American pioneer or cowboy. Somewhere deep down we object ot cities because we have a whole mythos about the pioneers.
But yes, what you say is true about our spirit and our spirit of enterprise.
> ‘there has been ZERO growth in Western Europe over the past 20 years.”
Damn right. Here in America we prefer ever-worsening cycles of bubble and bust.
Sam and Bxgrl;
I think you are confusing the notions of an established farmer type (such as our founding fathers) with the early pioneers.
With regard to the latter type, many Americans (myself included) look fondly to this image, and with good reason. It captures the spirit of enterprise, of “new roads” that has much to do with our accomplishments.
Consider just a few facts;
-in the past 20 years, we have created whole new industries and great corporations from nothing. Where is the European or Japanese equivalent of Google, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Apple and others. The answer: virtually non-existent.
-fact number 2: there has been ZERO growth in Western Europe over the past 20 years. They have added virtually NO new jobs to their economy. The result? A slow-motion demographic death-spiral.
All I can think of is how dirty that thing will look in a week from the fumes, dirt and dust of the city. Yet another job created just to wash this thing.