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17-1 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 Z.. ; I -ll si** Sift*~ 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. VC COULD SCARCELY WALK ABOUT 4nd For Three Summers Mrs. Vin- cent Was Unable to Attend to Any of Her Housework Pleasant Hill, N. C.—“l suffered for ;hree summers,” writes Mrs. Walter Vincent, of this town, “and the third and last time, was my worst. I had dreadful nervous headaches and prostration, and was scarcely able to walk about. Could not do any of my housework. 1 also had dreadful pains in my back and sides and when one of those weak, sinking spells would come on me, I would have to give up and lie down, until it wore off. 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