Comments on: University of Birmingham Steam Bridge by MJP Architects http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/27/university-of-birmingham-steam-bridge-by-mjp-architects/ architecture and design magazine Fri, 24 May 2013 16:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: horrible haridas http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/27/university-of-birmingham-steam-bridge-by-mjp-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-929441 horrible haridas Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:06:12 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=188762#comment-929441 thanks for explaining, reza. i think i see what you mean. looking at the rest of it, i do believe it couldn't be an error. thanks for explaining, reza. i think i see what you mean. looking at the rest of it, i do believe it couldn't be an error.

]]> By: felix http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/27/university-of-birmingham-steam-bridge-by-mjp-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-929376 felix Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:17:43 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=188762#comment-929376 Don't like. The form is boring, doesn't give any hint of the purpose. This could have drawn on the industrial tradition of Birmingham and the railway, but instead it's just a boring extrusion. Architects like Rogers have shown how pipes can be beautiful and communicate their function. This design is divorced from its function, whatever the architect says about the wave pattern. Don't like. The form is boring, doesn't give any hint of the purpose. This could have drawn on the industrial tradition of Birmingham and the railway, but instead it's just a boring extrusion. Architects like Rogers have shown how pipes can be beautiful and communicate their function. This design is divorced from its function, whatever the architect says about the wave pattern.

]]> By: felix http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/27/university-of-birmingham-steam-bridge-by-mjp-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-929374 felix Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:14:06 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=188762#comment-929374 Oh yeah. That's really weird. They seem to have done it correctly in other places. Maybe there's a fixing inside that had to be at that point. Oh yeah. That's really weird. They seem to have done it correctly in other places. Maybe there's a fixing inside that had to be at that point.

]]> By: Anh Pham http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/27/university-of-birmingham-steam-bridge-by-mjp-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-929334 Anh Pham Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:15:01 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=188762#comment-929334 "why doesn't the curve coming from beneath meet the horizontal one at the correct spacing angle?" Good observation but I think it does. You couldn't see it maybe because a piece of the machine inside was put right at that position. Look at the fifth image from the top! "why doesn't the curve coming from beneath meet the horizontal one at the correct spacing angle?"

Good observation but I think it does. You couldn't see it maybe because a piece of the machine inside was put right at that position. Look at the fifth image from the top!

]]> By: Reza Schuster MJP http://www.dezeen.com/2012/01/27/university-of-birmingham-steam-bridge-by-mjp-architects/comment-page-1/#comment-929310 Reza Schuster MJP Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:34:36 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=188762#comment-929310 Thanks Horrible Haridas, you've got sharp eyes! Trust me, it isn't a spacing issue: The stainless cladding was precision laser cut in the Netherlands (before being shipped over and pre-assembled on the carbon steel superstructure off-site in the UK). What you've spotted is the sky showing through one of the curved slots on the other side of the cladding. Thanks Horrible Haridas, you've got sharp eyes! Trust me, it isn't a spacing issue: The stainless cladding was precision laser cut in the Netherlands (before being shipped over and pre-assembled on the carbon steel superstructure off-site in the UK). What you've spotted is the sky showing through one of the curved slots on the other side of the cladding.

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