The World’s Longest Single-Mast Bridge Has Arrived
At the mouth of Taiwan’s Tamsui River, a new landmark has quietly redrawn the skyline. The Danjiang Bridge, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, has opened...
This week, Taiwan cut the red ribbon on a giant infrastructure project its own construction team once deemed "impossible:" the 3,000-ft-long Danjiang Bridge.
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Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Infrastructure, Bridge, Taiwan, Zaha Hadid, Building and Construction
If you're at all familiar with the district of Bonnington then you may well know a burnt-out ruin on Newhaven Road. It's been this way long enough that you might not remember it being anything else. It certainly poses many questions. For a start; what was it, and how did it come to be in this sorry state? What are those over-grown terraces on the riverbank beneath it? And just what does the…
This House in Rural India Is Actually a Bridge — and It’s Covered in Scales
Most architects would see a seven-metre-deep gorge cutting through a site and call it a problem. Vinu Daniel and his studio, Wallmakers, looked at it...
Somewhere in the hills outside the city of Karjat in India, there is a marvelous house that bridges the gap between two pieces of land. Built by Wallmakers, the Bridge House spans 100 feet (30 m) across two streams that have carved a 30-ft (7-m) gorge through the landscape, and expertly combines mud, steel and thatch to create a simple yet functional four-bedroom home.
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The iconic bridge has reopened to traffic after a major restoration that included a full concrete deck overhaul and replacement of 1,200 rivets
The world's longest suspension bridge is currently in Turkey but a new record could be held if the government in Italy gets its way and the Messina Bridge project is completed by 2033 as planned
Finland's just inaugurated its longest bridge, and not a single a car or motorcycle will ever be allowed on it.
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Category: Architecture, Engineering
Tags: Infrastructure, Bridge, Finland, Cycling, urban transport, Urban Planning
The White House warning that it could halt or condition the new binational bridge connecting Michigan and Ontario deepens the deterioration of relations between the United States and Canada. In a corridor through which nearly a quarter of bilateral trade…
Claudia Aranda
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Hollywood agent and producer Alan Greenspan (Fever Pitch) is launching Munich and London-based management and production firm Bridge MP. Greenspan, a longtime ICM packaging agent and partner at UK production company 6 Degree Media, was a producer on Colin Firth starrer Fever Pitch and an executive producer on movies including High Fidelity and […]
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