dragonball Z-axis
In a city full of robust infrastructure, this is my favorite. It's the central tangle in which the North/South and East/West elevated highways interchange in the middle of the old city. City planners were told by a Fung Shui consultant that the absolute centerpoint of the interchange was a vertical axis that should not be disturbed by having a road pass through. Thus, all of the lanes swerve to avoid this geomantic axis, which is encased in a hollow stainless steel column with bas-relief steel dragons climbing the sides (see below, center). This column appears to exert a centrifugal force on the surrounding roads, pulling and throwing them in four directions. Please note that the "ground" of this photo (the road on which we were travelling) is twenty meters in the air. Wow.
* joshua, 4/01/2004 10:24:07 PM
