Tourist sights that surprisingly impress, or, he's my new Eero!

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http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/stlsaar/mikearchdet.jpg
This view comes nearest to actually experiencing this amazingly improbably monument. I really didn't expect to be impressed by the Gateway Arch-- it looks k-static in most pictures. It's not, those other pictures have the wrong vantage point. As you crane your neck to view it from below, it's a stainless steel invocation of the future from 1960 America. One of Coupland's characters describes loving the intense odor of gasoline, something like how "it smells clean like the future." That's this arch, man. Don't bother going up in it, unless you have to prove it possible to yourself. Find a dry patch of grass and just watch the clouds float by it, and hope for a jet.

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 9 November 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.iit.edu/~leeyoun/pic/GateArch/gate1.jpg
Also, it's much taller and more graceful than views like this suggest.

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 9 November 2003 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You can actually go up in the structure? Ya learn something new, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the arch is amazing, I hope to have a place with a view of it soon. mr teeny worked in the tallest building you see there last summer and has a job waiting for him in september. Going up in the arch is quite an experience, you go up in little pods, five to a pod, and they are quite compact. since you are going up in a curve, the pod tilts and tilts and tilts and then occasionally rotates back to correct itself. It's truly a wonder of engineering.

the gateway arch is a catenary arch, which is the arc created when a heavy, flexible cord is suspended from two points in the same vertical line--like a necklace.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Not just up, but all the way to the top in this little train of 8 capsules that hold 5 people per. The little capsules are pure Jetsons, Ned. Then you get out and you're on this deck that is like the cabin of a 727. There are little 5 inch by 20 inch windows to peep out of.

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 9 November 2003 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

and it sways in the wind!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

a story of the development of the arch tram system.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm kinda excited about moving.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 05:07 (twenty-one years ago)

the first pic is beyond amazing. the typical pictures make the Gateway Arch look like a Slinky.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 November 2003 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

My experience first time in Saynt Lewie was the same. Yada yada yada Gateway Arch yada yada holy shit look at that thing it's alive!

― Skotie, Sunday, 9 November 2003 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hackneyed as it is, the Arc to tha T-R-I in Paree continues to please me when I'm up close to it. It's HUGE. From a distance, it looks like a postcard (but then, so do I). Up close........woahhhh

http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/pres-etab/col_sierck/4euro2001/arc%20de%20triomphe.jpg

― Skottie, Sunday, 9 November 2003 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Manhattan, just generally.

David Blaine in a box.

The new installation in the Tate Modern turbine hall (if that counts)

That is a great photo, Hunter.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 November 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

are there windows? how do you see outside of the pods?

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 9 November 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/images/tramview.jpg

you can see the windows in the door here; all you can see out of them is the machinery that drives the trams. Then they let you off at the top:

http://www.nps.gov/jeff/images/arch630.jpg

it does look a lot like the inside of an airplane.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

java panorama of the base of the arch

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/flyian/terminal/twater3.jpg

This was always my favorite sight went we went to the airport when I was a kid(although the Unisphere was good see below), and related to the thread since it too is by Eero Saarinen. I guess with it having been vacated and old, they were going to level it, but...

Surprisingly, and thanks to efforts of the city's Municipal Arts Society, a tentative agreement has been reached that will leave the terminal not only standing but also rejuvenated as the showpiece property for Kennedy's newest and hippest hometown airline, JetBlue Airways. from Salon

Yay.

http://www.monmouth.com/~randy/usopen/unisphere99.jpg

― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 5 December 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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