Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built Them All on This River

Re:Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:17AM (#37019447)

The artist who did this https://robinstam.com/

has some other interesting stuff, looks like he's pretty well known so securing funding must not have been a problem - wonder who funded it though.

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Re:Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built... by datene on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:35AM (#37019518)

It's implied in this article (in Dutch) that the municipality of Spijkenisse funded it. At no more cost than building 'normal' bridges, as they had planned originally

https://architectenweb.nl/nieuws/artikel.aspx?ID=26568

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Re:Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built... by ComputerGuru on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:49AM (#37019826)

TFA says at a 25% premium, not no extra cost.

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Re:Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built... by yorwba on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:54AM (#37019585)

From the Bored Panda article:

Stam got a letter of approval for his project from the European Central Bank and he even cinched the support of the Spijkenisse city council. They financed his project with 1.3 million dollars which was around a quarter more expensive than what a more simple set of bridges would have cost.

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Re:Euros Bills Drawn Not to Represent Real Bridges. He Built... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:23AM (#37019693)

thanks, missed that, although in my defense I find Bored Panda articles a chore to read, something about the design hurts my eyes.

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