building bridges
2014-12-18 17:08:57.075984+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
This is awesome: The Euro bank notes were designed with images of fictional bridges, supposed to be archetypical of various historical European architectural styles:
They have been designed to prevent one single member state from having a bridge on their banknote opposed to other states not having any depicted in theirs. In other words, “member state neutral” banknotes.
A new development near Rotterdam in the Netherlands is building those bridges:
The illustrations on the banknotes show generic examples of architectural styles such as renaissance and baroque rather than real bridges from a particular member state, which could have aroused envy among other countries. "The European Bank didn't want to use real bridges so I thought it would be funny to claim the bridges and make them real," Stam told Dezeen.