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2 comments:
I don't see the Lift part..maybe just because I'm so very bad in mechanics...but I see something else...Huge iron cages in that superbe summer sky...like singular prisons...seeing what we have done to your planet trough technology kind of scares you sometimes doesn't it?
It's funny how we all have our own perception of things, but I can certainly understand your point of view!
Let me give you an XXL answer, because you are raising an interesting point. I will also post another picture to show you the whole view.
The first impression might be: iron cages against a superb summer sky (it sounds poetic, so I like that - ha ha). But you are actualy seeing two sides of the bridge - the road between these towers can be lifted, allowing large ships to cross below it.
In a way you could compare this bridge (or in fact I should say these bridges, because there are 3 similar vertical lift bridges crossing the tiny river Gouwe) to the Eiffeltower - on a modest Dutch scale, of course. The 3 bridges were build during the economic crisis of the thirties - as some sort of labour project. Might be an interesting idea in these difficult days!
The Eiffeltower was ready in 1889 and the engineer Eiffel first offered this project to the city of Barcelona, who turned it down - believe it or not! (They will regret that now!). "The tower was met with much criticism from the public when it was built, with many calling it an eyesore. Newspapers of the day were filled with angry letters from the arts community of Paris."
This is also funny: "Novelist Guy de Maupassant — who claimed to hate the tower — supposedly ate lunch in the Tower's restaurant every day. When asked why, he answered that it was the one place in Paris where one could not see the structure." (Wikipedia).
Sometimes people need more time to appreciate industrial design or modern monumental buildings. I have an eye for beauty when it comes to people, nature and historic buildings, but I also appreciate modern design (not all of it!) and industrial buildings, bridges and even factories.
I agree with you that it is sad that we, people of this planet, have destroyed so much of nature to make room for cities, highways and industrial areas.
But at the same time: people need space to live and we are creative entrepeneurs. We need to keep the balance between culture and nature, that's for sure.
Thanks for commenting, Cristina, because you have triggered me to write a long answer - almost an essay ;-)
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