Comments on: New Buffalo Bayou Bridge Will Encourage Tolerance of Houston http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:23:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Don.geraci@me.com http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-56160 Don.geraci@me.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:02:36 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-56160 PS - I'm not sure that German architects are the authority on tolerance............. PS - I’m not sure that German architects are the authority on tolerance………….

]]> By: Don.geraci@me.com http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-56158 Don.geraci@me.com Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:48 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-56158 This design is truly ugly. OK - I understand the economics behind the fact that developers can build horribly inappropriate buildings all over our neighborhoods, and I'm OK with that. But this is a public space. We need some kind of commission or panel or ANYONE with an ounce of design sense to say 'No'. Does anyone know how I as a citizen can protest the decision to build this thing? I love the idea of a bridge but really.... this? Really? Hasn't anyone looked at Calatrava? This design is truly ugly. OK - I understand the economics behind the fact that developers can build horribly inappropriate buildings all over our neighborhoods, and I’m OK with that. But this is a public space. We need some kind of commission or panel or ANYONE with an ounce of design sense to say ‘No’.
Does anyone know how I as a citizen can protest the decision to build this thing?
I love the idea of a bridge but really…. this? Really? Hasn’t anyone looked at Calatrava?

]]> By: EMME http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-18529 EMME Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:39:50 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-18529 THe arches over Post Oak looked pretty ugly at first, but now they look great. It just takes some getting used to. They should name the bridge: "Tolerance, the Joe Campos Torres Bridge". I think it is near where the police threw him in the river and said they wanted to "see a wetback" swim. It seems we haven't learned anything from that. Intolerance abounds. But I digress. THe arches over Post Oak looked pretty ugly at first, but now they look great. It just takes some getting used to.

They should name the bridge: “Tolerance, the Joe Campos Torres Bridge”. I think it is near where the police threw him in the river and said they wanted to “see a wetback” swim. It seems we haven’t learned anything from that. Intolerance abounds.

But I digress.

]]> By: Jonathan http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-18515 Jonathan Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:55:59 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-18515 WTF? who cares about skateboarders? Keeping skaters off of the bridge was a “prime directive” for the design team....that is ridiculous if skaters want to skate on the bridge let them. Who or what are they hurting? At least they are out engaging the city and not sitting on there butts playing Xbox and eating mayonnaise with a spoon. WTF? who cares about skateboarders? Keeping skaters off of the bridge was a “prime directive” for the design team….that is ridiculous if skaters want to skate on the bridge let them. Who or what are they hurting? At least they are out engaging the city and not sitting on there butts playing Xbox and eating mayonnaise with a spoon.

]]> By: Mad Mex http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-17374 Mad Mex Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:56:38 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-17374 The German artists that dreamed this up know more about tolerance than we do, and how to physically depict such tolerance. Instead of encouraging our own culture by supporting our own artists and architects, we decide to go elsewhere. Build bridges of tolerance expanding from the 3rd Ward to River Oaks. The German artists that dreamed this up know more about tolerance than we do, and how to physically depict such tolerance.

Instead of encouraging our own culture by supporting our own artists and architects, we decide to go elsewhere.

Build bridges of tolerance expanding from the 3rd Ward to River Oaks.

]]> By: James http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13910 James Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:19:15 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13910 "Tolerance" bridge? Tolerance, meaning what? What is meant by "encouraging tolerance of Houston"? I'm not a skateboarder, but if a prime directive is how to keep skateboarders off of it, how is that "tolerance"? I'm confused, but this is about something in Houston, so, well... you know... And I'm and very happy ex-Houstonite. “Tolerance” bridge? Tolerance, meaning what? What is meant by “encouraging tolerance of Houston”? I’m not a skateboarder, but if a prime directive is how to keep skateboarders off of it, how is that “tolerance”? I’m confused, but this is about something in Houston, so, well… you know… And I’m and very happy ex-Houstonite.

]]> By: The Joanna http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13907 The Joanna Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:20:57 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13907 Bring on the magnetized graffiti! Beautification. Bring on the magnetized graffiti! Beautification.

]]> By: me to you http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13816 me to you Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:02:52 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13816 this is hideous.. does anyone know who designed this so that i can email them and let them know. this is hideous.. does anyone know who designed this so that i can email them and let them know.

]]> By: GoogleMaster http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13740 GoogleMaster Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:37:52 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13740 kjb434, that is not a dog park on Allen Parkway. It is a public park that inconsiderate dog owners have taken over to run their illegally leash-free dogs in. Sure, before there were any dog parks in the city, there was at least an excuse for them to run their dogs there. But now there are plenty of legitimate, official, fenced dog parks, even some near the trendy inside-the-Loop neighborhoods. Lest you think I am an evil dog-hater, I am quite the opposite. I am a dog lover, owned by two furry beasts who love to frolic in this city's many fenced dog parks. We've been to Danny Jackson (Westpark), Maxie Rd, Dunlavy Park, Millie Bush, and the new one on Highway 6 opposite the farm and ranch club at Bear Creek. We have never run loose along Allen Parkway. I would never forgive myself if one of my dogs were to be running loose and decided to take a swim in the alligator-infested waters of Buffalo Bayou or to sprint across Allen Parkway or Studemont. kjb434, that is not a dog park on Allen Parkway. It is a public park that inconsiderate dog owners have taken over to run their illegally leash-free dogs in.

Sure, before there were any dog parks in the city, there was at least an excuse for them to run their dogs there. But now there are plenty of legitimate, official, fenced dog parks, even some near the trendy inside-the-Loop neighborhoods.

Lest you think I am an evil dog-hater, I am quite the opposite. I am a dog lover, owned by two furry beasts who love to frolic in this city’s many fenced dog parks. We’ve been to Danny Jackson (Westpark), Maxie Rd, Dunlavy Park, Millie Bush, and the new one on Highway 6 opposite the farm and ranch club at Bear Creek. We have never run loose along Allen Parkway. I would never forgive myself if one of my dogs were to be running loose and decided to take a swim in the alligator-infested waters of Buffalo Bayou or to sprint across Allen Parkway or Studemont.

]]> By: Will http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13708 Will Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:27:31 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13708 Not only is it ugly now, it looks like it will become a graffiti magnet! Not only is it ugly now, it looks like it will become a graffiti magnet!

]]> By: Miz Brooke Smith http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13662 Miz Brooke Smith Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:08:33 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13662 Oogly. Put up something more riverine and less freeway-like in design. And "tolerance" is nothing to be proud of, let alone to celebrate. Ugh ugh ugh. Oogly. Put up something more riverine and less freeway-like in design. And “tolerance” is nothing to be proud of, let alone to celebrate. Ugh ugh ugh.

]]> By: Jessica http://swamplot.com/new-buffalo-bayou-bridge-will-encourage-tolerance-for-houston/2008-12-04/#comment-13652 Jessica Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:01:32 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=4396#comment-13652 What better way to highlight the natural beauty of the lush green buffalo bayou than to build a gigantic twisted mash of rebar and concrete right over it. Can't they just build something functional and low-impact, visually? Now that, I could TOLERATE. What better way to highlight the natural beauty of the lush green buffalo bayou than to build a gigantic twisted mash of rebar and concrete right over it. Can’t they just build something functional and low-impact, visually? Now that, I could TOLERATE.

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