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Not a miracle. A planning choice.
Utrecht, 1982 → 2020.
The same street tells a 40-year story: fewer hard edges, more trees, safer walking, better cycling, and public transport still at the center.
Urban change doesn’t always need a landmark.
Sometimes it looks like shade, space, and a street people actually want to use.
📍 Utrecht, Netherlands
Keeping the whole section in compression basically eliminates the internal tensions that would otherwise arise from bending moments. I can imagine the behavior you're describing here. Great work!
If I can cross examine: what advantages (structural or architectural) are we trying to achieve with this system?
Relative to alternatives, does it currently achieve those advantages? If not, is the hope that it will in the future?
@steppedenizen@CSandbatch If I can make a content request: deep dive on algiers point would be very cool.
There is some awesome architecture out there. I barely knew it existed till I was in my 20s.
Notre Dame is rebuilt, Sagrada Família is finished, now the Vatican should raise money to build a new basilica somewhere in Western Europe and host an architectural competition to design it: