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Hoover Dam Bypass

When completed in late 2010, the 2,000 foot long bridge will span the Black Canyon (about 1,600 feet south of the Hoover Dam), connecting Arizona and Nevada highways nearly 900-feet above the Colorado River.

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[OilCrash]

11:44 PM on 12/19/2009

Agreed. I have often wondered what the problem is here with public and even private design and architecture. Apparently people were concerned about making this bridge "match" the look of the dam. That is sad and pathetic. Zero innovation, zero inspiration, nothing but mundane form following function to the extreme and to our detriment as citizens.

I am embarrassed to live in this country sometimes. Okay, okay, embarrassed a lot.

[Tom95134]

03:52 PM on 11/15/2009

Hoover Dam Bypass, how mundane.

[kingart]

06:10 PM on 11/14/2009

Yes, Dubai, Japan, Singapore, China, Korea, Copenhagen, London, Spain -- these are nations and cities that know how to invest their money, engineering energies and creativity in public works worthy of the societies that gave these amazing structures. A bridge 1,125 from base to tip of a spire? Others that are as much high-tech art as they are infrastructure? How pathetic is it that most U.S. buildings and virtually none of our bridges are anywhere in this league! We've made an art form of mediocrity -- when we get off our ass to make anything at all!
I live in NYC; the bridges here have an *average* age of 90 something years and I would be dismayed, but not surprised, if one of these years one of them came crashing down.
By our edifices they shall know us. We are being drained dry by the vampires of bailouts and war mongers and so there is no real money to commit to remaking this kind of architecture. And when we do, some part of it -- The Big Dig in Boston, for instance -- has been assembled on the cheap, and/or goes far over budget and/or schedule. They can't even get ground zero right! Idiocy!
If the aesthetics and innovation of our national urban transportation infrastructure is one measure of our national ambition and character, and is how local and national government values its citizens, then let us no longer delude ourselves that we have anything left to show the world!

[texasjanet]

04:35 PM on 11/13/2009

I'm shocked that Jeff Bridges isn't on this list.

[bzb]

12:15 PM on 11/13/2009

Only one American bridge featured, America is so behind on creativity. No wonder why so many of our architects pack up and go over seas to work and live.

[bridge to somewhere]

01:13 PM on 11/13/2009

My thoughts exactly. Boring utilitarianism. That's what happens when you replace arts and sciences with worthless programs like "Every Child Left Behind." You'd never see a helix-bridge like that in the US. Most people here don't even believe in Evolution...which by default means you don't believe in genetics...or most science in general...since they are entirely bound to one another.

How can anyone look at these amazing structures and NOT see how our regressive, theocratic policies have anchored us to the past. Now it seems to take forever just to build a rather boring 20th-century-style tower in NY...stuff that was child's play for us in the 1930s!!

[zombie fairy]

07:35 PM on 11/14/2009

Not just behind on creativity, behind on upkeep. Our bridges are crumbling for lack of being taken care of.