Tina's Pic Story - Bottom up bridge

Tina's Pic Story is back - she suggests the theme which this week is Bottom-up...we supply pictures to match. Today, I choose the view up to the north tower of the Zakim/Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge in Boston. Carrying Route I-93 over the Charles River, the top of the wishbone shaped north tower is 322 Feet (98 M) above the water. Function and style exist nicely together as we look up in awe...

SOOC - A web woven over the Charles...

Under the I-93 bridge from the Somerville side of the span...

Southbound to Boston and the Big Dig

SOOC - Straight out of the Camera - takes us back to Boston. The driver (myself) commissioned passenger Patti to capture the cable webs found on the very stylish I-93 Zakim Memorial Bridge over the Charles river in Boston on a warm and humid day. The combining of art and design, looking so delicate yet able to carry ten lanes to/from the Hub. SOOC in that the unedited sky is filtered somewhat by the tinted windscreen glass. Straight and true down the road...

29 Days-23-Concrete wishbone

We are looking south toward downtown Boston Massachusetts alongside the I-93 Zakim Memorial Bridge

Tina's 29 Days brings me to a place where style and function work equally. The place is under the Charlestown side of the Zakim Bridge in Boston. The look is graceful and sleek. The tower looks almost like a concrete wishbone, bit not weak like the one we find inside a chicken or turkey. Yet the span was designed and built to withstand that it will withstand a 400 mph / 640 km/h wind - the highest ever recorded was 110 mph. So, style and strength work well together!