Sunday, December 09, 2007
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Sad to say, the rebuild is less stable than the original. The original bridge was built by hand around 500 years ago, and only was destroyed with great effort. The rebuild could come down if there was anything like a serious earthquake. :(
# posted by Katja R. @ 3:56 AM 
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Those cracks in the new-old stonework of the rebuilt bridge were to be expected, alas. Note that the Novi Stari most was (a.) designed and overseen by a committee of international experts; and that (b.) the U.N. was involved, in the form of UNESCO, reputed to be the infamous international body's least competent and most corrupt organ.
Projects like this were handled differently back in the days of Suleyman the Magnificent.
Still, I'm glad it's been rebuilt, if only to cock a snoot at that prize barbarian HVO general (and former TV producer) Slobodan Praljak, the SOB who ordered the destruction of the bridge in November 1993.
AR
Projects like this were handled differently back in the days of Suleyman the Magnificent.
Still, I'm glad it's been rebuilt, if only to cock a snoot at that prize barbarian HVO general (and former TV producer) Slobodan Praljak, the SOB who ordered the destruction of the bridge in November 1993.
AR
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: 11:53 AM
: 11:53 AM
Hello Katja,
Just wanted to let you know that we have a new website on Kosovo at www.newkosovareport.com. It's much more than a blog. Enjoy it!
Just wanted to let you know that we have a new website on Kosovo at www.newkosovareport.com. It's much more than a blog. Enjoy it!
# posted by : 6:51 PM
: 6:51 PM
@AR, dittos, btw, even some hardline Croats like my S.O. feel the SAME way, because the bridge has always been an important part of the heritage of Mostar, and of Bosnia Hercegovina as a whole. I think that the S.O.B. who ordered the destruction needs to sit in the same hot tub as Milosevic, and Stalin and Hitler.
@warchild, I do support independence for Kosovo, I just hope it does not lead to problems in BiH. There is NO DAMN reason for any decision on Kosovo to affect things here, but idiots are making noise.
@warchild, I do support independence for Kosovo, I just hope it does not lead to problems in BiH. There is NO DAMN reason for any decision on Kosovo to affect things here, but idiots are making noise.
In UK we build nuclear power stations without worrying about earthquakes but that is because we only have a significant one every fifty, hundred or more years. Was there some damage to the bridge in the October earthquake?
# posted by : 3:02 PM
: 3:02 PM
@Owen, I have no idea on wheter there was some damage at that time or not. I am assuming there was, and that that prompted all the assorted commissions to look at the bridge, and see what happened. Modern building methods just are not a patch on older methods. They built for the centuries, and did not care what it cost to do that, or how long it took to get things RIGHT. Now earthquakes of some severity are a regular feature of life here, after war, the most common reason for *urban renewal*
There's probably a good metaphor for civil society in Bosnia in your observation about the original bridge being much sturdier than the modern, foreign-assisted reconstruction.
Yes, we are lucky to have the example of past construction methods. Of course these wonderful structures were paid for by methods that we'd never tolerate today, but they knew how not to waste that money once they'd got hold of it.
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