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CONSTRUCTION
OF CITY BRIDGES
Lack of Artistic Talent Shown
In Design.
NO AESTHETIC EFFECT.
To Achieve the Proper Result the
Bridge Engineer Should Co-operate
With the Architect In the Design of
the Bridge and Its Approaches.
By FRANK KOESTER.
Author of •'Modern City Planning and
Maintenance.”
One very striking defect in oui
bridge construction is the lack of artis
tic talent shown in the design. For the
most part our bridges ure like skyscrap
ers, masterpieces of ugliness and purely
utilitarian in every sense. In the pres
sure to get enough bridges built to ac
commodate rhe traffic they have been
built with little or no sense of aesthetic
effect and are accordingly without
beauty or individuality.
The engineers have been wholly con
tent to erect bridges that would stand
up. but while successful in this the ap
pearance of the bridge has been utterly
neglected, for the great majority ol
bridges are of not too good engineering
design, containing far more meta) than
Is necessary in certain parts, while oth
er parts too little. This is proved by
the frequent strengthening of and ad
ditions to existing bridges, the removal
of tracks and their unnecessarily high
cost. Thus our engineers can only be
credited with the roughest kind ot
■work, which is not to be wondered at.
since the mind that would be satisfied
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TWO SPECIMEN PARK BRIDGES
with au aesthetically ugly bridge can
not be expected to avoid imperfections
in the practical side of the bridge's de
sign.
the great importance thus of the
bridge, both m the practical and
aesthetic life of the city, demands that
its design and construction receive the
utmost care and attention. No single
part of the plan of a city, with the ex
ception of the civic center, is of great
er importance than its bridges. The
civic center may be likened to the
main ballway of a building and the
bridges to the portals. Often the first
impression of a city and frequently the
most lasting one is gained from a
bridge, and as the entrance to the city
it should be treated with the dignity
it deserves and be made a feature of
the city’s plan rather than a mere en
croachment of a utilitarian nature.
A bridge should be considered aes
thetically from three principal points
of view: The bridge itself, the bridge
in its relation to its approaches, and
the whole effect of the bridge and its
approaches in relation to its environ
mem.
In its design it should be regarded
as an integral part of the city’s plan,
and it should be located in reference
to the whole plan of the city in such a
way as to produce the most efficient
and pleasing result. A bridge may for
example serve as a terminal or focal of
an important avenue or for several
converging avenues, full advantage
thus being taken of its architectural
importance.
Its location having been determined,
the bridge itself should be of such a
design as to meet in the most direct
and practicable manner the conditions
it will be called upon to fulfill, and its
approaches should be of such a char
acter as to enhance its value rather
than, as is often the case, of such a
character as to detract if not ruin its
entire effect.
In order to achieve the proper result
it is necessary for the bridge engineer
to cooperate with the architect in the
design of the bridge and its approaches
and with the city planner or civic
architect in its relations to the plan of
the city as a whole. Unless this is
done, bridges will continue to be ugly,
misplaced and ill suited to their pur
poses.
In the aesthetic design of a bridge It
should be remembered that the bridge
is a work of architectural art and that
as such it should conform in its own
field with the general principles of ar
tistic design wffich have been noted as
being the rules of city planning in gen
era I
The first principle is that of unity.
The bridge with its approaches should
impression of being a sis
fcie hoinGpWnecus structure.
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