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China
The Monk Bridge
What does "I would turn into a bridge for 500 years and endure the wind and rain mean?
Flashback Nov 8, 2010. Somehow starting the age of smartphone photos, taken with the infamous Palm Pre. Late at night. Returning home from a bar with close friends. Rather poor quality in a picture that somehow feels important. Originally on Facebook which also felt important back then...
#outerworld #flashback #smartphonephotography #palm_pre #bridges #dresden #fog_and_nights
As of mid-August, the use of pontoon bridges indicate that Russian forces occupying Crimea and Kherson Oblast face logistical issues, weeks after Ukrainian attacks on the bridges that link the two occupied regions, the U.K. Defense Ministry said on Aug. 23.
On Aug. 6, the Ukrainian military confirmed striking the strategically important Chonhar and Henichesk bridges, which connect northern Crimea with Kherson Oblast.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #logistics #bottlenecks #bridges #pontoon #Kherson #Crimea ##Chonhar #Henichesk #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
Today I cycled up to the #vanBrienenoordbrug , one of the three #bridges across the Maas that connect #Rotterdam North and South. I really didn't feel very safe due to the strong wind
#mywork #studyforapainting #cityscape
die 1905 im Jugendstil erbaute Drehbrücke über der Einfahrt zum Rheinhafen in Linn (Krefeld), Juni 2015
#Architektur #Brücken #Linn #Krefeld #Niederrhein #RheinhafenLinn #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#architecture #buildings #bridges
Clouds Along the Path – © 2022 – Robert N. Clinton (aka CyberShutterbug)
#blackandwhite #bridges #clouds #cybershutterbug #desert #new-mexico #santa-fe #trees
Originally posted at: http://cybershutterbug.com/wordpress/clouds-along-the-path/
Bridge Over the Arroyo – © 2022 – Robert N. Clinton (aka CyberShutterbug)
#blackandwhite #bridges #clouds #cybershutterbug #desert #infrared #new-mexico #santa-fe #trees
Originally posted at: http://cybershutterbug.com/wordpress/bridge-over-the-arroyo/
Cloud Bridge – © 2022 – Robert N. Clinton (aka CyberShutterbug)
#blackandwhite #bridges #clouds #cybershutterbug #desert #infrared #miscellaneous #new-mexico #santa-fe #trees
Originally posted at: http://cybershutterbug.com/wordpress/cloud-bridge/
The night is dark and full of terrors ~ Montague St Bridge
#photo #LOLs #yoks #bridges #BridgesVsTrucks #Monty #ReigningChampion #Legend
Sunderland : River Wear from Queen Alexandra to Northern Spire Bridges, (and back again)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPTbdae5Jak
A journey through the interzone (our definition : an area of the city where people go to work, shop or play.. but no-one actually lives there).
Taking in the vanished communities of Deptford, Low Southwick and the medieval hamlet of Pallion, along with the site of the birthplaces of the inventors of the light bulb and the hand grenade...
Wearside Psychogeography Club : https://spiritofplace.weebly.com/
#sunderland #river #wear #bridges #industrial #interzone #psychogeography #deptford #pallion #lowsouthwick #militaryhistory
The latest edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge in Turkey, which has become the world's longest suspension bridge.
With a span of 2,023 metres, the bridge has reached completion and is now open to traffic over the Dardanelles waterway, connecting Turkey's European and Asian shores.
Created by consulting group COWI for contractor DLSY, the structure takes the title of the world's longest suspension bridge from the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, which has a 1,992-metre-long span.
The American Institute of Architects' best homes for 2022 feature in today's Agenda newsletter.
Other stories in this week's newsletter include the American Institute of Architects' best homes for 2022, designer Philippe Starck expressing his "unconditional support" for Ukraine after a yacht he designed for a Russian oligarch was seized, and an opinion piece on Cumbernauld's brutalist town centre by Rory Olcayto.
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The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge has reached completion in Turkey with a span of 2,023 metres, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
Open to traffic over the Dardanelles waterway, the massive structure was created by consulting group COWI for contractor DLSY to connect Turkey's European and Asian shores.
The world's longest suspension bridge has opened in Turkey
The bridge, named after the year of an important Ottoman naval victory against the British and the French during world war one, takes the title of the world's longest suspension bridge from the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, which has a 1,992-metre-long span.
The distinctive 318-metre-high red towers from which the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge's concrete deck is suspended are also the tallest of any suspension bridge in the world, according to COWI.
It features two distinctive red towers
The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge is located south of the Sea of Marmara. It is expected to carry up to 45,000 vehicles across its six lanes each day and support both tourism and commercial activity in the region.
While the main design work was carried out by COWI, the team also included construction companies Daelim, Limak, SK and Yapi Merkezi.
According to COWI, the position of the bridge posed many design challenges, including high winds and high seismic activity. It achieves its aerodynamic stability partly through a twin-box girder.
The clearance between the water and the deck was engineered to accommodate high-stacked container ships and cruise ships that need to pass under it.
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"The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge has been a fantastic project to work with," concluded COWI's project director Inger Birgitte Kroon.
"Not just for all the technical challenges that we as engineers love but also for the strong collaboration with DLSY, the owner and other involved parties," he continued. "Only with a collaborative mindset from all parties has it been possible to design and construct a world record suspension bridge in less than five years.”
Suspension bridges are one of the seven main types of bridges that feature in the Dezeen guide to bridge design and architecture. The structures feature a deck suspended from vertical ties or suspension cables, attached to tensile cables slung between towers.
Other recent suspension bridges featured on Dezeen include the world's longest glass bridge in China and a 516-metre-long pedestrian suspension bridge in Portugal.
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#all #architecture #infrastructure #bridges #turkey #suspensionbridges
#Montague St Bridge scores again! RRRrrrrRRReigning Champion!
the #Napier St Bridge kindly checked on Monty's health and well-being.
https://twitter.com/MontagueStBridg/status/1502095724938665985?s=20&t=K6XF8-LydUyXPNhlrfPBKg
#bridges #invisible-bridges #crashes #LOLs #yoks #YAY4MONTY #oz #funny #mirth #merriment #humour #humor
Hundreds of wooden elements are bolted together to form Timber Bridge in Gulou Waterfront, the latest project by Chinese architecture office LUO Studio.
The 25-metre-long bridge is located in Gulou, a water village in Jiangmen, China. This unusual manmade landscape, formed of a network of waterways and ponds, once provided an infrastructure for fishing and farming.
The bridge is arched to allow room for boats to pass underneath
With the area now being rebranded as an eco-tourism resort, Gulou Waterfront, LUO Studio was tasked with creating a new pedestrian bridge in the heart of it.
The Beijing-based studio chose to predominantly use wood, paying tribute to the traditional construction techniques employed in rural villages of southern China where the material is in plentiful supply.
Its structure is made from simple wooden lengths
It was essential for the bridge to allow enough room for boats to pass underneath. This led to the design of an arch shape, with four metres clearance between the underside of the bridge and the typical water level.
"During the fishing civilisation period, roads were poorly developed, so water systems became the key route for transportation and logistics," said the studio, which is led by architect Luo Yujie.
"Since bridges need to be walkable while also ensuring more space for boats underneath to pass through, traditional bridge construction techniques in China adopted arches to create space for the passage of boats under bridges, and enhance the effectiveness of the structure."
Metal panels provide integrated rainwater drainage
Despite the shape of the bridge, very few of its components are curved. Apart from the three arched beams that form the underside, the structure is almost entirely made from small, regular lengths of pine.
"Small wooden components are interlocked and anchored to the three main arched beams, functioning as sub-beams on upper and lower levels," said LUO Studio.
"In addition, the two ends of these sub-beams are combined with upward components to form a stable triangle of forces."
The bridge span is 25 metres
Metal plates are slotted into the wooden framework, which create shelter and provide natural rainwater drainage.
The result is a structure with an intricate structure. Not only does it provide a walkway across the water, but also provides shelter to those crossing.
Wide staircases create an inviting route for pedestrians
On both sides, the wooden bridge's entrance is a wide staircase with open treads. A smaller staircase is set into the centre of each one, leading up to viewing platforms slotted within the bridge's structure.
"This project inherits the construction wisdom of ancient covered bridges," said LUO Studio.
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"The covered corridor enhances the overall structural stability and protects the arched wooden structure beneath from exposure to sun and rain."
Steel-strengthened bolts give the structure an additional layer of strength.
Viewing platforms are slotted into the structure at both ends
Timber Bridge in Gulou Waterfront is the latest in a series of innovative projects designed by Luo Yujie, a rising star of the Chinese architecture scene.
His studio won a Dezeen Award for Party and Public Service Center, a community centre built over existing foundations in Yuanheguan, while other projects include the geodesic canopy, Luotuowan Pergola.
With this project, he hopes to inject new interest into an area whose fishing heritage is gradually disappearing.
The area is being rebranded as an eco-tourism resort
It is one of several new bridges that are planned as part of the Gulou Waterfront development, with the aim of making the area accessible for pedestrians without causing disruption to fishing boats.
"While passing through the platforms from two ends to reach the centre of the bridge corridor, visitors can fully experience the light and shadows from the top, feeling calmness and openness in the mind," added the studio.
The photography is by Jin Weiqi and the video is by Jin Weiqi and Xiao Shiming.
Project credits
Client: Jiangmen OCT
Design studio: LUO studio
Design/construction instruction: Luo Yujie, Lu Zhuojian, Wang Beilei
Structural consulting: LaLu Structural Consulting
Construction firm: Shenzhen Zhenhui Architectural Engineering
Wood material suppliers: Shengtehaosen, Kingspine-House
Lighting fixture supplier: Meteor Shower
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Our latest Dezeen guide explains the seven key types of bridges including beam bridges, tied-arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges and cantilevered bridges.
Bridges are structures that are built to cross or span physical obstacles without blocking or obstructing movement below. These structures often provide a way above an obstacle that might otherwise be difficult to cross.
There are seven main types of bridges, with each suited to particular circumstances. Read on to learn about the different types of bridges:
Beam bridges are the simplest type of bridge and feature a horizontal beam supported by abutments or piers.
For single-span beam bridges, which include footbridges constructed from wood or stone across small rivers, weight and load are transferred through the endpoints of the bridge.
Longer bridges are created by placing single spans next to each other, with modern beam bridges usually built from a combination of steel and reinforced concrete.
In 2018, Italian architect Renzo Piano designed a €202 million beam bridge for his hometown of Genoa (pictured), after the previous bridge collapsed in a storm.
Brearley Architects + Urbanists recently completed a beam bridge in China that incorporates spaces for play and resting.
As the name suggests, arch bridges feature a loadbearing arched structure. Traditionally these were made from masonry, but they can also be made from concrete, iron, timber and steel.
These bridges work by using the arched form to transfer weight to abutments on either side of the structure. Longer bridges can be created by repeating a short arch, as was the case for Roman aqueducts.
Today, arch bridges are often used for short pedestrian crossings such as Santiago Calatrava's glass-stepped Ponte della Constituzione in Venice while university students in Shanghai used robotic fabrication techniques to 3D-print a metal arch bridge (pictured).
Tied-arch bridges are bridges that have arched structures that usually rise above the bridge's deck to support it from above via ties or hangers.
Typically each span will either have a single arch with decks slung on each side or a double arch located on either side of the deck.
Richard Meier's Citadella Bridge in Italy is an example with a single arch in the centre of the bridge while Useful Studio used weathering steel to build Chiswick Park Footbridge (above), which features double arches with a deck in between.
Truss bridges feature a load-bearing superstructure made from steel elements interconnected in triangular arrangements to act as a single structural member.
British architecture studio Moxon Architects collaborated with engineering firm Arup to build a red footbridge with a lower truss system (pictured) across Regent's Canal in King's Cross, London.
ARCVS recently proposed a two-deck truss bridge for Novi Sad in Serbia that features offices and a hotel as well as a pedestrian crossing.
Suspension bridges feature a deck that is suspended from vertical ties or suspension cables attached to tensile cables slung between towers.
Some of the world's most famous bridges use this structural arrangement including the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol and the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
Completed in 1998, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Kobe has a main span of 1,991 metres, which is the longest in the world.
Recent suspension bridges featured on Dezeen include the world's longest glass bridge in China and a 516-metre-long pedestrian suspension bridge in Portugal that claims to be the longest in the world (above).
A cantilever is a structure that projects horizontally and is supported at only one end. Cantilever bridges are formed by arms that extend outwards to meet at the centre or outwards from either side of a central tower.
The Forth Bridge in Scotland is a well-known example of a cantilever bridge.
In Cornwall, England, architecture studio William Matthews Associates along with engineers Ney & Partners built the Tintagel Castle Bridge (pictured), a cantilevered bridge comprised of two 30-metre spans that do not touch at the middle.
A cable-stayed bridge has one or multiple towers or pylons from which cables extend to support a bridge deck. The cables on these bridges often have a fan-like design or pattern caused by the cables forming parallel and regular lines as they extend to the deck.
This type of bridge contrasts to suspension bridges as the cables span directly from the towers or pylons as opposed to being suspended vertically from a cable.
The Foster + Partners-designed Millau Viaduct (pictured) in France and the eight-kilometre-long Øresund Bridge that connects Danish capital Copenhagen with Swedish city Malmö are well-known examples of cable-stayed bridges.
This is the latest in our series of Dezeen guides. See previous guides toplastic, biomaterials, carbon and timber.
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Blick von der Rockelsberghalde in Rheinhausen auf das Rheinufer, Januar 2010
der Duisburger Außenhafen, im Hintergrund die Salvatorkirche (mitte) und das Duisburger Rathaus (rechts)
#Skyline #Rhein #Brücken #Winter #Natur #Schnee #Homberg #Niederrhein #Essenberg #Duisburg #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#rhine #nature #snow #skylines #bridges
