Puente de las Mujer
The Puente de la Mujer (Bridge of the Woman) is a footbridge that spans the harbor in the Puerto Madero neighborhood in Buenos Aires. It’s kind of a renovated port district, along the same lines as the Docklands in London. The Puente de la Mujer also reminded me a bit of London’s Millennium Bridge, but they don’t really have that much in common beyond both being fancy pedestrian bridges. Interestingly, the bridge also reminded me of the City of Arts and Sciences, which I visited in Valencia, and it turns out that’s because they were both designed by the same architect, Santiago Calatrava.
In the section of the audioguide where he discusses the bridge, Calatrava claims to have been inspired in the design by Argentinian tango. The left side of the bridge is supposed to represent the male dancer, standing up, while the right side is the woman dipping. I don’t really see it. To me it looks more like a harp, or perhaps an abstract interpretation of the cranes which surround the docks.
In an interesting connection closer to home, Calarava is also the architect for the yet-to-be-built Chicago Spire.
Chicago Spire? Oh, you mean the Chicago Giant Fucking Hole In The Ground.