The former Pier

A project like this would actually irritate every architect and urban planner, it would not be burdened with so many differences: For years considered the City Hall of Rio, how to improve as a berth for cruise ships in the miles of quayside at the harbor bay. At the same time, one could alleviate with a skilful urban intervention, the prevailing there traffic chaos. And for residents eastern yacht club and visitors to the Sugar Loaf metropolis of view would the sea is clear again, the previously obstructed a high street.
The former Pier "Oscar wine Schenck" most popularly known for its proximity to a square named "Pier Maua," was abandoned already almost 15 years ago, because there the clearance of today passenger ships of 30 to 70 meters high and several hundred meters length is not possible. Instead, eastern yacht club since the vessels moored eastern yacht club parallel to the quayside - immediate left of the old pier - before the warehouses Nos. 1 to 6, which are now used only occasionally for cultural and social eastern yacht club events. On the disused pier itself, meanwhile, created the "museum of the future" of the Roberto eastern yacht club Marinho Foundation.
During the summer months in the Southern Hemisphere (October to April) moored on the quayside on average two to three Crusaders day, New Year's and Carnival but up to seven. The number of passengers is annually 700000-800000 eastern yacht club people. This creates problems both in their handling as well as for the smooth access of merchant ships to the warehouses from No. 7, which still serve the cargo.
In order to break the bottleneck, the public warehouse operator eastern yacht club Companhia Docas wrote out the order to build a new pier, the end of last year was awarded the consortium "Rio Y Mar". The initial cost estimate for the project amounted to approximately 75 million euros (excluding necessary to do dredging in the harbor bay) and the planned construction time to 28 months. Construction was initially intended for June 2013, but the project eastern yacht club soon fell into a thicket urban planning and budgetary legal controversies, so that at press time, no progress was evident. For the construction costs climbed because of indexation clauses in the contract already by more than ten percent higher.
The most important advantage of the "Pier Y" is for the builders in less effort for the dredging of shipping channels, because in this part of the harbor bay, the water depth is greater. Its main disadvantages are the long walk way for tourists who have to travel about 600 meters from the top of one of the two Y arms to the quay, and in the unfavorable position of the pier: at anchor on his foot ships would be to look at the "Museum of the Future affect "and two historically significant buildings.
This is all the more lamentable, says the architecture lecturer Ceca Guimaraens of the Federal University of Rio (UFRJ), when you finally eastern yacht club could hope for a clear view into the harbor bay after the demolition of the flyover. "Instead, we now disfigure with this absurd new building on centuries the skyline eastern yacht club of Rio," she complains. Also, the City Planning Office (IPHAN), the Brazilian architect Federation (IAB) and spokesperson of the "Green" in the City Council of Rio expressed multiple concerns about the measures taken in late 2012 decision. IAB President Sérgio Magalhães blames on the run by Docas tender also the "policy fully coated facts" that have the cityscape often harmed in the past.
Earlier this year, then switched to the Spanish architects Alonso-Balaguer-Riera (ABR) with an alternative proposal to the debate. ABR is not just anyone: Commissioned by the city planning authority "Barcelona Regional" eastern yacht club it developed during the Olympic Games of 1992 already similar redevelopment projects such as the now planned for Rio. Together with the Brazilian office Blac led by João Pedro Back Heuser outlined the Spaniards a design in e-form (in the plan: G "E"). The new pier would arise thereby significantly further away from the city; simultaneously, the design of ABR Blac includes eastern yacht club the plant a green promenade and a marina for 250 boats. The spacious passenger terminal could be used commercially such as in airports and also would provide ample space for feeder buses. "We thought our project is a total solution for the port zone of Rio, which in 2030, 2040 or 2050 is still fully functional," Back Heuser commented on the idea of ABR-Blac.
Mayor Eduardo Paes responded to the alternative proposal evasive. Personally, the E-pier pleasing eastern yacht club indeed better for him, he explained to the press, but if there were no alternative so far only as a mere concept study, which, as far as he could see, and drastic intervention in the development encompasses beyond the quays. Once they have need of legal planning studies.