It was designed by bridge savant Miguel Rosales, the same dude behind the huge “iconic” Cleveland Pedestrian Bridge (the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere”), and it’s been nixed, at long last, by the City of Cleveland due to a preponderance of foreign parts which would have made construction too expensive. The PD’s Steven Litt’s got the scoop and the deets here.
Instead, Cleveland will get a version of the clunky drawbridge below, which the Planning Commission approved in May.
Here’s the bridge in its prone position:
The huge iconic Pedestrian bridge from the mall to the North Coast Harbor, the so-called “Bridge to Nowhere,” is still very much in play. Litt reports that the Group Plan Commission, the same group that raise all that money for Public Square is trying to wrangle dollars over and above the $25 million already committed by the city, the county and the state.
CLEVELAND: GIVE US ICONIC URBAN DESIGN OR GIVE US DEATH!!!!
This article appears in Jul 6-12, 2016.
You’ve got engineering giant AECOM in downtown Cleveland — get them to do it. Then it might have some style. You care more when it’s your home.
Dude, there’s more important things to worry about. You sound like a posh hipster douche bag for writing this.
Anyone who thinks crappy architecture is OK can move to a place that has no self-esteem. If Cleveland wants to be a player, it NEEDS to care about looking pretty!!! This means you don’t put big ugly eyesores on your lakefront by you most sought tourist attraction, the Rock Hall, and a stadium that could be on national TV 8 times per year in the fall.
PLEASE just build the original design!!! This one SUCKS!
I like it.
You get what you’re willing to accept. We accepted the mediocrity of the Innerbelt bridge so now it’s thought we’ll accept anything. This proposed bridge’s rallying cry? “Whaddya want? It’s a bridge.”
The designer must be a fan of the album cover for the Tubes “The Completion Backward Principle”.
Chick, more important things to worry about? Like what? Schools? Roads? Corruption? Yeah, right. You sound like a first-time noob douche bag for writing this…which you actually are.
That harbor and that bridge will be among the most-visited spots by out-of-towners…both now and in the distant future.
So you just don’t crap up the site of some of the biggest and busiest tourist attractions in this town by putting that POS mess right next to the stadium and the Rock Hall…just to name two of them.
Go back to Twitter and Snapchat and let the adults talk intelligently, airhead.
Chuckles the Clown
As a designer I actually like the new version better. It stands out and has elements of many boats found on the water. I’m a little concerned that pedestrians might be crushed by the large cylinder on the ends when it’s raised though. And as for Cleveland uglies? How about that monstrosity of a chandelier at playhouse square?
I think somebody could definetly come up with something better for $25 MILLION OR MORE! Definetely needs more style and modern design! And STOP hiring people outside of the city or atleast outside of ohio to design and build stuff for us. Keep our **** hard earned tax dollars within the city or atleast state instead of giving them to some dude in boston that probably wont spend a dollar in cleveland or ohio!!!
Why do we always have to get designers from out of town? No self confidence. We could have done this ugly bridge .What did they hire the ugly bridge company ??