Comments on: 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: 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: 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!