[Shadow_Group] Mark Morford: Come See Our Hideous Slab ( I give it 3 thumbs up)

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===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata ===== 
SFGate.com - December 17, 2004 

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Come See Our Hideous Slab
As the world swoons over France's soaring beauty of a bridge, S.F. gets slapped with an eyesore
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist 

  

And did you hear the one about how those gul-dang baguette-sucking antiwar French just completed work on this astounding new bridge, a soaring, airy, delicate thing erected in southern France, and it's all over the international press and the French people are justifiably proud and even the venerable Le Monde has deemed the new Millau bridge a "work of art," and the amazing pictures are being featured everywhere, for good reason? 
And you look at the photos and see the breathtakingly elegant architecture (it was built by the same company that did the Eiffel Tower) and you read about the bridge's world-record height and its classy designer, renowned British architect Norman Foster, the man who also designed the Millennium Bridge in London and who believes, crazily, that "works of man should fuse with nature," and his bridge is already being hailed as an instant landmark. 
The Millau. Its pillars poke the clouds and its design inspires the spirit and it will surely be a major tourist attraction for decades to come -- a fact that, of course, means little to most Americans, because most red-blooded patriots never venture past the Wal-Mart on the outskirts of their home state. But still .... 
(click here to read the rest) 
(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/12/17/notes121704.DTL&nl=fix ) 

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