The hodge-podge of bridges in the Philadelphia region may provide testimony to unplanned growth, but the variety is endlessly fascinating.
Point of view matters, of course. What looks very straightforward — even flat and slightly uninspired — at one angle can look quite different when seen from another.
This view is a little meh, I think. (Unless, perhaps, your name is Valentino, and you choose to see it as a monogram.) It’s a little rigid, a little dull. Just a bridge support in the middle of a river.
But seen from here? Sure, there’s a steely flatness in this ordered precision, but also a kind of grace in the swoop of the arches, and the open spaces between the girders, don’t you think? And, maybe, a visual depth that enhances the protective, cave-like, underside of the roadway?
It’s all in how you see it.