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There is no evidence that Miguel Rosales "collaborated" on the design of the Leonard Zakim Bridge. A search of the Boston Globe archives does not turn up any references to Rosales' work on the bridge. Among numerous articles about the bridge, this one clarifies the role of the designers and engineers: CELLUCCI HAILS DESIGNER OF NEW CHARLES BRIDGE SWISS ARCHITECT RESOLVED CRISIS: [THIRD Edition] Palmer, Thomas C, Jr.Boston Globe; Boston, Mass. [Boston, Mass]04 Nov 2000: B.5.

"Yesterday, Governor Paul Cellucci stood on the nearly finished deck of the 10-lane structure, under its sweeping white cables, and thanked the bridge's architect, Christian Menn of Switzerland."He put architectural form and engineering function into one," Cellucci said of Menn, 72. The bridge, Cellucci said, "will quickly become the signature of this city, if not of the entire Commonwealth.In the early 1990s, Menn, a world-renowned bridge architect, solved one of the early crises of the Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel project. After community opposition forced the state to dump a complex and unsightly 18-lane design for the river crossing, Menn was hired as a consultant. The challenge was figuring out how to design a span that would fit the comparatively tight space between the old double-deck Interstate 93 bridge and the MBTA's underwater Orange Line tunnel. What won the day was Menn's idea for configuring the cables out of the way of obstructions and using white sheaths to recall an image of Boston's sailing heritage. "He came back with this beautiful model," said Anthony Ricci, the Big Dig's chief bridge engineer. "Everybody fell in love with it." In fact, some critics, who all along wanted tunnels rather than bridges linking Boston and Cambridge, were not mollified. But the cable-stayed structure has drawn mostly praise as it has taken shape, its two 30-story towers also recalling another prominent piece of Boston history, the Bunker Hill monument. Cellucci proclaimed yesterday Christian Menn Day in Massachusetts, signed a color photograph of the span for its author, and repeated his hope that the Legislature will pass legislation naming it the Leonard B. Zakim Freedom Bridge, after the late civil rights activist. Menn has kept an eye on construction of the $94 million bridge, which was designed in detail by HTNB Corp. and is being built by Kiewit/Atkinson. Ca2sha3 (talk) 15:36, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

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Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, you may be blocked from editing. Materialscientist (talk) 16:37, 14 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Apologies for not leaving an edit summary when I first edited this page -- I am new to editing. There is no evidence that Miguel Rosales "collaborated" on the design of the Leonard Zakim Bridge. A search of the Boston Globe archives does not turn up any references to Rosales' work on the bridge. Among numerous articles about the bridge, this one clarifies the role of the designers and engineers: CELLUCCI HAILS DESIGNER OF NEW CHARLES BRIDGE SWISS ARCHITECT RESOLVED CRISIS: [THIRD Edition] Palmer, Thomas C, Jr.Boston Globe; Boston, Mass. [Boston, Mass]04 Nov 2000: B.5.

"Yesterday, Governor Paul Cellucci stood on the nearly finished deck of the 10-lane structure, under its sweeping white cables, and thanked the bridge's architect, Christian Menn of Switzerland."He put architectural form and engineering function into one," Cellucci said of Menn, 72. The bridge, Cellucci said, "will quickly become the signature of this city, if not of the entire Commonwealth.In the early 1990s, Menn, a world-renowned bridge architect, solved one of the early crises of the Central Artery/Ted Williams Tunnel project. After community opposition forced the state to dump a complex and unsightly 18-lane design for the river crossing, Menn was hired as a consultant. The challenge was figuring out how to design a span that would fit the comparatively tight space between the old double-deck Interstate 93 bridge and the MBTA's underwater Orange Line tunnel. What won the day was Menn's idea for configuring the cables out of the way of obstructions and using white sheaths to recall an image of Boston's sailing heritage. "He came back with this beautiful model," said Anthony Ricci, the Big Dig's chief bridge engineer. "Everybody fell in love with it." In fact, some critics, who all along wanted tunnels rather than bridges linking Boston and Cambridge, were not mollified. But the cable-stayed structure has drawn mostly praise as it has taken shape, its two 30-story towers also recalling another prominent piece of Boston history, the Bunker Hill monument. Cellucci proclaimed yesterday Christian Menn Day in Massachusetts, signed a color photograph of the span for its author, and repeated his hope that the Legislature will pass legislation naming it the Leonard B. Zakim Freedom Bridge, after the late civil rights activist. Menn has kept an eye on construction of the $94 million bridge, which was designed in detail by HTNB Corp. and is being built by Kiewit/Atkinson. Ca2sha3 (talk) 20:24, 15 July 2020 (UTC)