A bridge with cut wings
I have to say that often I feel ashamed to have been born in this infamous country called mexico. However, I’ve faced it, lived with it, and lived in it. Now, this is not a political or a social complaint, but I can’t avoid the fact that the country’s organs have been decomposing for longer than I can remember.
And here comes a twist that would seem to have nothing to do with my initial statement. One of my favorite architectural and engineering structures is one that possibly has been overlooked: the Millennium Bridge by Norman Foster. Possibly the best tribute to it: a 5-sec max sequence in Harry Potter’s I don’t know what number movie.
You may ask at this point, WTF has to do the first thing with the second; well, Norman Foster designed and was the director of the NAIM, New International Mexico Airport [Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México by its initialisms Spanish].
The bridge and the airport are linked, as I see it. Why? Because both bring together lands, countries, borders, people. That’s a powerful semiotic treat. Bridges have always meant that and accomplished it.
But here in this so-called country, Foster’s huge and advanced vision was broken by malicious political and megalomaniac appetites. Such is mexico’s declaration to the world.
Beyond my reckoning note, I make this sad art firework explode in the night of the most important “patriotic” celebration here, the “Independence Day”.
That’s how easy it is to burst out a visionary and powerful masterpiece as the Foster’s destroyed project.
A bridge with cut wings
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