Calais Border Crossing

By Melanie Brooks

Actually, they prefer you call it a Port of Entry rather than a border crossing, but you get the idea. The new Port of Entry between Calais, Maine and New Brunswick, Canada opens today! All commercial traffic will be re-routed to the new Port of Entry with the hopes of improved efficiency for both truckers on their way south and citizens who want to hop over the border for some shopping.

You can read the Breaking Ground story in the December Bangor Metro here. To see my first blog post about my trip up to Calais click here.

We couldn't publish all of the photos in the magazine (we only have so much space) so I'm including some here. These were provided by Robert Siegel Architects.

This is the shell of the building -- what you see from the outside. It's made from steel shaped to resemble rock formations. As you can see from this photo, the colors and shadows change with the light.

The outer shell provides privacy and security for the people working inside. People on the inside can pretty clearly see out of the building but those on the outside can't see in.

The construction crew used rock that had been blasted from the site to make way for the building's foundation as natural landscaping.

A beautiful sunset over the construction site.

Another view of the outside of the building.