[bikeqld] Local Roads & Engineers

[Ben Guymer]

Righto, well I'm an engineer but not a civil engineer, and I'll agree  
what they describe engineering gone mad.

But - well I'll go out on a limb here - that the powerstation at  
tennyson, designed for engineering purpose, was much more aesthetic  
than what Mirvac is building now.  I suppose Mirvac thinks it was  
designed by an architect?!!!
	The tennis centre is the most boring structure ever conceived, they  
must have had left over bits and beams from the Gabba and Suncorp  
stadium sitting around for 10 or so years that they had to find a use  
for.
   The apartments, while I give them credit for painting white instead  
of black.. I mean really, if they tried to make them ugly well at  
least the ugliness would be a point of interest.
	The bike track there is very wide...  but despite it's capacious  
width isn't much more useful because of it.  No-one realised that on a  
bike you have to exit the roundabout for the bikeway by riding the  
wrong way into other roundabout entrances, and you cannot cross the  
'green strip' beside the road to the path without carrying your bike.   
If you'd like to be reversed over by a ute afterwards, that is.

I think the only things they did well was to connect king arthur tce  
to Ortive st with a road and also they have also used the crushed  
concrete and brick lumps from the old powerstation as landscaping,  
which is very heartwarming indeed.

Ben


On 05/03/2009, at 6:49 PM, John Nightingale wrote:

> This is what we have always known:
> SMH, today:
>
>
> A lonely tree cries out for a drink in a city ruled by uncivil  
> engineers
>
>    * Elizabeth Farrelly
>    * March 5, 2009
>
> Evidence that engineers are vastly over-represented among the ranks of
> international terrorists will come as no surprise to architects, who  
> are
> accustomed to picking up what few pieces are left after engineers  
> have done
> their worst. Now, however, it seems there may be a yet more sinister
> engineering plot against the civilised world.