The well recieved Christian Menn design for the new Peace Bridge is a no-go. All thanks to a rare species of bird that could never evolve enough to adjust to the existence of this bridge apparently.

So instead we will have a simplistic, slightly boring design by an engineering firm from Florida. Its nice that it is white, and the arches are a polite bow to the old bridge it runs by. Not a bad design…just kind of boring.

Menn’s design has been repeated everywhere nowadays and although elegant, graceful, and powerfully inspiring-eventually the concept gets tired (see Mies Van Der Rohe’s black skyscraper concept).

Basically its at the point where no one believes this project is ever going to happen so it doesn’t matter what it looks like.

The design is the least of the battles ahead…lawsuits galore coming from whichever section of the lower west side gets destroyed by its construction.