{"id":6884,"date":"2016-11-30T08:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2016-11-30T08:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T14:03:32","slug":"impressive-is-not-the-same-as-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/30\/impressive-is-not-the-same-as-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Is Not The Same As Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Alter on <i><b>Treehugger.com <\/b><\/i>may be letting his architecture background get away from him on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/infrastructure\/lucky-knot-bridge-spectacular-pedestrian-infrastructure.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/infrastructure\/lucky-knot-bridge-spectacular-pedestrian-infrastructure.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1480546240389000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHimfy9zCbwA0AxNwzNIdj8bYlGyw\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bendy-bridge.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6886 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bendy-bridge.jpg?resize=259%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"bendy-bridge\" width=\"259\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bendy-bridge.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bendy-bridge.jpg?resize=235%2C150&amp;ssl=1 235w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/bendy-bridge.jpg?resize=150%2C96&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, is a booming place. It has its charms, including beautiful rivers and lakes. Development is happening everywhere, including the Meixi Lake District to the west of town. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextarchitects.com\/en\/projects\/lucky_knot_dragon_king_kong_bridge\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.nextarchitects.com\/en\/projects\/lucky_knot_dragon_king_kong_bridge&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1480546240389000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGq9GwiAK8gQcugVZSJ56bAU0Oqfg\">NEXT architects<\/a> have built the Lucky Knot, a beautiful new pedestrian bridge over the Dragon King Harbour River (and a highway) in the Meixi district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To my eye, this is gaudy. I suspect that Lloyd is marveling at something in its architecture or engineering, rather than asking, <i>Is this beautiful<\/i>? Follow the link to <i><b>NEXT<\/b><\/i>, above,<i><b> <\/b><\/i>to see more pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Alter on Treehugger.com may be letting his architecture background get away from him on this one: Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, is a booming place. It has its charms, including beautiful rivers and lakes. Development is happening everywhere, including the Meixi Lake District to the west of town. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/30\/impressive-is-not-the-same-as-beautiful\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}