Comments on: Winners for the Bering Strait Project

By: MadDog

MadDog — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:03:34 +0000

ive heard of this idea before Of a connecting route through the bearing straght. Would It increase trade? Probally some but the whole thing about it being the solution to world peace. That I highly doubt. Now a tunnel/bridge probaly will get build eventually, might not be for a several decades but it will het built.

As for the movie. Seemed dated and as other ppl have said “rhetorical”.

By: K_Consilience

K_Consilience — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:43:51 +0000

Bering Strait Project | ArchDaily http://t.co/U3mVHXf via @archdaily

By: gerald abramovitz

gerald abramovitz — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:00:50 +0000

Strawberry Canyon in California- Hippy settlement -told me of successfully crossing of frozen Bering Strait in 70, November
Young East German escaped to West Germany -purchased 2cv citroen- crossed safely- light weight and large diammeter wheels an assist. The source who was busy converting 2cv,s to 4 wheel drive Safari type models says the escapee did not want his name revealed then because of his relatives in e.Germany.

1908 New York to Paris race -sponsored by NYTimes and ParisNewspaper originally called for route up frozen Alaska river and Bering straight- An inexpensive ferry on airbearings/hybrid hovercraft could act as backuk or pick-up truck- in emergencies.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:19:45 +0000

The video doesn’t load for me, so i have absolutely nothing to go on.

What’s wrong with taking an aeroplane from USA to Russia?

By: arkinet

arkinet — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:58:26 +0000

Bering Strait project to connect US & Russia http://snurl.com/n4fjm Sarah Palin’s gotta be all over this http://snurl.com/n4flw LOL

By: Matt George

Matt George — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:53:42 +0000

http://www.archdaily.com/25544/winners-for-the-bering-strait-project/

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:33:57 +0000

Ideas competitions: freeway-dreaming and concept-thinking.
Results: workless design firms search for contracts.
Reality: a lot of unsolved problems.
Advice: stop searching so far away and take responsability on the footsteps of your own house!

In short: Architects, stop messing around and do your job!

By: Jade Doel

Jade Doel — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:56:05 +0000

I love how the video says that this bridge will “connect the WHOLE world”. Last time I checked, the world doesn’t consist of only two continents…

By: rachmatrf

rachmatrf — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:50:00 +0000

well, I can’t stand the hype…

By: jorge

jorge — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:48:53 +0000

In this case someone should sponsor a competition for a human settlement on the moon. That’s more realistic!

By: HppyRobot

HppyRobot — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:55:24 +0000

Why on Earth someone would want to build a bridge between Russia and USA?!
Who then next?!

By: Lucas Gray

Lucas Gray — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:50:52 +0000

where are the images of the proposals?
That video was terrible.

By: Michael Lemmon

Michael Lemmon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:11:37 +0000

What if we built a tunnel across the Bering Strait? More feasible than you might think. http://bit.ly/aC9LR

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:48:18 +0000

Competition is sponsored by “The Foundation for Peace and Unification.” They’re a wacky church offshoot inspired by this rich Korean guy Sun Myung Moon. He probably owns the tunnel company.

By: Mookie Wilson

Mookie Wilson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:39:42 +0000

55K for first place?!? God Damn!

By: Nicolae Halmaghi

Nicolae Halmaghi — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:34:48 +0000

The Bering Sea Tunnel: A project for the elastic mind.
http://bit.ly/UsKQP

By: liliana

liliana — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:25:01 +0000

esto está increible… http://bit.ly/UsKQP

By: gonzalo

gonzalo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:09:11 +0000

Ah, I get it now. Just visited the website and its all clear: A Korean tunnel contractor sponsored this nonsense.

Let’s see, you’re a large tunneling company and you need work. But dammit, no one needs a tunnel. So what do you do? You come up with your “dream job”…a big money maker for you. Then you come up with a strategy to get people to want this thing (in this case a competition, shows you how smart these guys are). Then, to keep people from quickly seeing you for what you are, you wrap the idea in tender names and words like “peace”, “prosperity” and my favorite, “Sponsored by: The Foundation for Peace and Unification”

Sounds like these guys just rented “Chinatown” and said, “Hey, if they could do it in L.A. with water, why not the Bering Strait, with peace.”

Morons.

By: gonzalo

gonzalo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:57:04 +0000

Whoa, at long last someone has figured it out: the real solution to world peace is to build a bridge connecting Sarah Palin to Siberia. We can scratch world peace off our global to-do list.

This is ridiculous.

I found it interesting that no American (or Canadian, or Russian) teams were finalists. Probably because no one from those countries is stupid, naive, or gullible enough to fall for this idiocy. Not sure why so many Korean teams were finalists…must have been highly publicized there or something.

I love the warm and fuzzy language surrounding this thing too. Its the same tone all “pioneers” take when they know they’re getting ready to pull one over on you.

Dumbest Competition Ever!

By: Gatz

Gatz — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:40:48 +0000

I says “a connection among all races”. ¿Dogs are included? I only know one human race called human. The concept of “race” should not be aplied to humans. Please. It is a conection of countries, of people.