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01SEP 2012

“Flyover” / Shenzhen Incites Criticism

Posted in Architecture - Infrastructure by * FORMAKERS

If you’ve lived or visited any Chinese city, you’ve surely encountered or are even intimately familiar with the “flyover”, that peculiar, patently Asian urban device which lifts denizens up into the air and over bustling car traffic below, only to deposit them on the street opposite.

The flyover, usually concrete and cast in some dubiously symbolic, yet daring form, resembles an utopian artifact from a time when ambitious urbanism schemes were still produced by the profession. The futuristic city may be a dream of the past, yet the bespoke object-flyover is just coming into its own.

But not without it’s own share of problems. Continue.

Located at the junction between Nanshan and Shennan boulevards in Shenzhen, the 14-meter-wide Chunhua Footbridge hovers over the intersection like a halo, touching the ground at four points. The structure, whose form was designed to look like an abstract flower, was hastily completed last year for the Shenzhen Universiade at a cost of 50 million yuan ($7.

6 million), and has been bitterly criticized ever since for its high construction and maintenance costs..

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