I do like a bit of epic 19th Century engineering and the Brooklyn Bridge – ±3455 feet* of steel cabling and limestone, granite & concrete masonry spanning the East River between Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan (completed in 1883) – is no exception! It’s an awe-inspiring structure, and walking across it I felt like I was inside a very clever giant’s complex game of cat’s cradle – a little bit disorientating and a lot magical (to see the world through this intricately beautiful grid)…
To give the above details some context here is the bridge, viewed from underneath the Manhattan Bridge, on a moodier, damper day…
* Length, anchorage to anchorage: ±3455 feet / 1050 metres (according to this source) | Total length of bridge and approaches: ±6016 feet / 1830 metres | Length of main span: ±1595 feet / 486 metres
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21 May, 2010 at 10:10 pm
mlle paradis
Suzanne. I like you because you are so engaged! I don’t get the impression you miss much!
It is a beautiful bridge. Of course you’ve seen the Hockney photos too?
About the Standard. Yes. The nakedness (and “worse”) has become the done thing there. Kind of odd nothing’s been done about “officially” (tho how and what?) since people do bring their kids and their grannies there. And everyone thought Amsterdam was such a decadent place!
Hope the sun has made it to A’dam!