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McGraw: Builders go by the playbook

MCGRAW I Builders go by the playbook As a car approaches the bridge along the freeway, the smaller ovals seem to move into the larger oval, creating the illusion of footballs in motion. "It's kind of like the football going through the goalposts," Kasi said. (Note to drivers: Let your passengers stare at the girders.) The bridges are not just for motorists. Kasi and Darwish also designed them with nearby Detroit Metropolitan Airport in mind. Travelers flying over the complex can look down and see the shape of a giant football that is formed by the space between the two bridges. Girders down the middle look like the stitches on a ball. (Note to pilots: Let your passengers stare at the girders.) "This sculpture tells you about the American passion for football and also for automobiles," Kasi said. He added: "It's also a time capsule" that will From Page 1 1B semble footballs. commemorate the 2006 Super bridges' principal designers, though they stressed they were part of a Benesch team of many members. Their inspiration: Football, as in Super Bowl. Kasi, Benesch's executive vice president and chief operating officer, became a passionate fan while attending Michigan State University in the late 1960s. He said he had thought for years about Incorporating the mass (linemen) and speed (running backs and receivers) of football into a design. Darwish, a senior project manager, had the brainstorm of melding football and engineering in the I-94 bridge. Speaking of the bridge artistically, Kasi said trucks represent the linemen and automobiles stand for the speedy backs and receivers. Vehicles on 1-94 travel though structures, each of which is formed by two arching steel ribs held together by five oval girders shaped to re- Bowl. State and local officials will open the gateway arches officially at 8:30 a.m. Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Soon after, 1-94's average daily load of 180,000 vehicles - speedy running backs/cars and lumbering linemen/trucks - will begin to thunder through. The bridges' life expectancy is at least 50 years. Only time will tell what place they will take in metro Detroit's gallery of public art, which includes such objets as the Joe Louis Fist, the giant tire and the Dodge Fountain in Hart Plaza. "I think it's a magnificent structure," said Taylor Mayor Gregory Pitoniak. "We wanted it to be significant visually, and it is. Anything that is public art is going to be controversial. I guess that's the nature of the beast when you go beyond the functional." Contact BILL McGRAW at 4781 or journal@/freepress.com.
Article from 28 Sep 2005Detroit Free Press(Detroit, MI)
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