innovative art or just plain ugly?
pic courtesy www.brisbanetimes.com.au
Okay so this new piece of public infrastructure will further link our home base suburb of South Brisbane with the CBD (at least for pedestrians and cyclists). We couldn’t agree more that Brisbane needs more river crossings. And we admire any form of architecture that steps into ‘bold’, challenges traditional design and adds a new dimension to our cityscape.
But the truth is I just don’t like the look of the new Kurilpa Bridge.
It’s not finished but with the last piece of oversized Meccano slotted in during this past week it seems fair to say it won’t change much. Last time I moved home I had a big pile of wire coathangers in a bundle on the floor. And our new $63million bridge’s ‘pole and wire’ form reminds me too much of that interwound clutter.
I’m sure the architects would be happy it’s provoking comment and I promise to keep an open mind. Parisians hated the Eiffel Tower at first…
How about you? Love to hear your comments.
It’s fantastic a really innovative piece of architecture that will be unique to Brisbane. Bravo!!
I agree its a pile of Junk. It may well be a piece of “innovative piece of Architecture” but to place it so near to to a grand old bridge in the William Jolly is just crazy.
Maybe it’s my OCD coming out but I can’t look at it without thinking it just looks ‘messy’. Also, I believe that the money would have been better spent improving roads and traffic congestion – a couple more vehicular bridges would be a much better option for Brisbane’s future.
My name for the bridge would be bad hair day. It reminds me of the ongoing craze for haute cuisine where cooks have completely lost track of what their role is. They spend their time dreaming up more and more lavish sculptures without a thought, it seems, that people are just looking for a wholesome feed that tastes great and is enough to fill the hunger. At Kurilpa we have what is possibly a great engineering feat by someone with no thought as to what the finished bridge will look like against everything around it. It is just a mess. Any decent lines in the bridge have been overshadowed by the tangle of structure. The view down the river, the serenity, and the flow is destroyed by this jumble. And for $63 mill we could have had a free ferry service connecting the two sides for a hundred years. Can’t wait for the next bridge.