OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   France   The bridge designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas, connecting the Bégles and Floirac cantons of Bordeaux, has officially opened. It is 548 meters long and 44 meters wide. There are separate lanes for cars, public transport, bicycles, and pedestrians, the one

Burgos & Garrido Bernabeu Ingenieros   Slovenia   The coachmen of Maribor were much relieved when in 1913 the Austrians inaugurated what is known as the Old Bridge over the Drava, which replaced the timber structure that had been a serious bottleneck…

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The Mexican firm Colectivo C733 – Carlos Facio, Eric Valdez, Israel Espín, Gabriela Carrillo, José Amozurrutia – were commissioned to design the Bacalar Eco-Park, which covers 1,900 square meters in an area of 70,000. The main objective was to minimi

Ehl & Koumar Architekti   Czech Republic   The 2023 winner of the Czech Architect Award, given by the Czech Chamber of Architects, this 57-meter-long footbridge replaced the original overpass on the site, built in 1981. A work of the Prague-based practice of Lukáš Ehl and Tomáš Koumar, the st

Zaha Hadid Architects Block Research Group   Italy   El prototipo de pasarela se construye con piezas de hormigón impreso en 3D sin armar, lo que asemeja su comportamiento a las estructuras tradicionales de piedra, resolviendo los esfuerzos a través de la geometría y no con la acumulación de materiales

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   The organization that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory has opened a facility for scientific education and outreach, composed of several blocks pierced by a raised walkway.

Atelier Bridge Structures Blank architekti   Czech Republic   Walking on the Charles Bridge, amid so many baroque saints and the breathtaking views of Prague, one easily forgets about the basic purpose of its construction in the year 1357: to connect the castle to the town core on the opposite bank. It was the

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Crossing a bridge is always an experience, but even more in Switzerland. From the Kappelbrücke in Lucerne with its paintings depicting events of the city’s history to the acrobatic Salginatobel built by Robert Maillart, the country is a fertile field

EFFEKT   Norway   Considered the father of modern skiing, Sondre Norheim turned into a full-fledged sport what up to the mid-19th century was little more than a traditional means of locomotion, and popularized the slalom – in the local dialect, a course along a smooth

Michèle & Miquel Da Vision   Taiwan   Under debate today as are the colonial experiences of other world powers, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan had nevertheless set out to be a ‘model’ domain, and here lies the seed of its modernization. Though aimed at the greater glory of the metropo

Grafton Architects   France   The masterplan for this plateau proposed boulevards, streets, and squares with the poetic integration of landscape and ecology. It referred to the legacy of the great tradition of institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, which were reinte

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   As part of its mission to engage the public in science, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym, CERN) is launching the Science Gateway, a new facility for scientific education and outreach. The purpose of the proj

Bart Lens Maat-Ontwerpers   Belgium   Miraculously unscathed by the industrialization that the Belgian province of Limburg underwent after coal was discovered there early in the 20th century, Hoge Kempen is an extensive land of forests and heaths that in 2006 became the country’s first –

Hugh Broughton Architects   United Kingdom   The efforts to preserve a Norman castle have concluded with the insertion of a timber platform that covers the ruins while tracing a more accessible interior visitor route. The framework raised over four solid pillars also holds up a series of suspen

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   The proposal replaces the concrete bridge from 1949 with a new stone bridge with five openings. The new design is more than a transport infrastructure: it connects the urban tissue and forms a public space at the entrance to the old town...

Antonio López Díaz Ana López Sánchez-Vegazo Carmen López Sánchez-Vegazo   Spain   An undertaking of the foundation that sees to the care of Castilla y León region's natural heritage, the new Peñas Llanas viewing point replaces one which was already much deteriorated. Perched on a high rock overlooking a valley, within the recreati

Foster + Partners   China   In the Nanshan District of southwest Shenzhen, in southeastern China, two towers of 44 and 40 floors rise from podiums surrounded with vegetation. The new headquarters of the robotics company DJI, specialized in drone technology, presents cantileveri

LUO studio   China   In Jiangmen, a city of Guangdong Province in southern China, the Gulou tourist resort recreates a village splashed with ponds and canals to showcase traditional activities related to fishing and husbandry. The resulting eco-cultural theme park thus f

Wilkinson+Eyre   Denmark   This 160-meter-long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians falls under a plan to revitalize part of the Danish capital’s harbor, which has been underused for decades. Built next to OMA’s BLOX building, it allows water traffic through two rotating sectio

Taller architects LOLA Landscape Architects L+CC   China   Faced with the unrelenting growth of Shenzhen – half a century ago a simple fishing village but now a cutting-edge megalopolis – a rigorous environmental policy was implemented, unprecedented in the country, to regulate the proliferating industrial a

estudioHerreros   Spain   One hundred years after the arrival of the railroad to Santiago de Compostela, the trench occupied by the extramural rails continues to be an almost insurmountable barrier between the historic center and the neighborhoods that emerged along the roads

William Matthews Associates   United Kingdom   A fruit of collaboration between the engineering firm Ney & Partners and the architecture practice William Matthews Associates, this footbridge over a 58-meter drop between cliffs recreates the structure that in the past connected the two sides of th

Onda Arquitectura Checa Arquitectura    Spain   With a total length of 283 meters, the footbridge designed by Onda Arquitectura and Checa Arquitectura presents three 63-meter stretches between supports, and the effect is an unexpected impression of lightness. The wavy form, initially a response t

For Thailand Biennale, Junya Ishigami proposed an architectural project, “Rainbow Carpet,” an arcshaped bridge crossing over the old moat of ancient Korat city. The bridge measures 77m wide and 30m long, with an area of 2,310 square meters. The “Carp

GCR   The pedestrian bridge, which was first announced in 2015 (see further reading), was printed by Dutch additive construction specialist MX3D over the Oudezijds Achterburgwal canal in the city’s Red Light District. According to Imperial, it will be a “l

Alberto Ballesteros   Like the children of Oedipus, the San Giorgio Bridge is the fruit of tragedy. That of 14 August 2018, when the Morandi Bridge collapsed, killing 43 and leaving hundreds homeless. The destruction dramatically cut two neighborhoods apart and eliminated

The "Ruyi Bridge" in the Shenxianju Scenic Area in Eastern China's Taizhou city has recently become an internet hit. Spanning 100 meters across the Shenxianju valley, the bridge is more than 140 meters high and is shaped like a jade Ruyi, an ornament

The tragedy of 14 August 2018, when 43 people were killed by the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, was a heavy blow to the city, to Italy, and to the prestige of Italian engineering. So the recent inauguration of the rebuilt infrastructure – t

Piano’s Bridge in Genoa

youtube.com   On 3 August, the city of Genoa inaugurated its new bridge, designed by Renzo Piano to reconstruct the Polcevera Viaduct, also known as the Morandi Bridge, which collapsed on 14 August 2018, killing 43.

On view through 13 September at the Matadero Madrid Design Center is an exhibition showing twenty footbridges and bridges built in the past twenty years by the Spanish firm Fhecor Ingenieros Consultores, which in 2019 received a Special Mention in th

The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa killed 43 people and exposed deficiencies in both its design and its maintenance. It was a big blow to Italian politics and engineering, and there has been a clear endeavor to make amends through a fast-tra

Alejandro Bernabeu   Jorge Bernabeu   Footbridges are not just for crossing. They long ago ceased to be mere structures for overcoming obstacles. Footbridges now are experiences, more than constructions. They give places a fresh narrative, creating new spaces, reinterpreting structural t

Giving spectacular panoramic views of the Qatari capital, Santiago Calatrava’s Sharq Crossing will interconnect three bridges through underwater tunnels in Doha Bay. With a total length of 12 kilometers, the new set of arteries will take pressure off

Los madrileños Francisco Burgos yGinés Garrido están de buena racha; a los proyectos ganados en Toledo y Camberra (véase Arquitectura Viva 127 y AV Proyectos 35) se une otro en Maribor, Eslovenia: una pasarela pea­tonal y ciclista sobre el Drava, sit

Como primera parte de una serie de mejoras en las infraestructuras de la ciudad italiana de Reggio Emilia, Santiago Calatrava ha diseñado un conjunto de tres puentes colgantes, destinados a conectar la Autovía del Sol con el núcleo urbano. El puente

Jerusalén inaugura nuevo acceso en el extremo este de la ciudad: un puente de 360 metros proyectado por Santiago Calatrava que se eleva sobre un nudo viario y que combina el paso de trenes ligeros —un sistema de transportes impulsado por el Ayuntamie

Los habitantes de Venecia y las tropas de turistas que colman la ciudad cuentan con el nuevo puente diseñado por Santiago Calatrava para cruzar el mítico Gran Canal. La obra del arquitecto e ingeniero valenciano, con una luz de 81 metros, conecta la

Before 1996, Foster’s symbolic presence in London had been limited: a luminous gap in the Royal Academy and a clearing job at the British Museum. Most of the other works were offices of varying quality: from the laconic elegance of his own office, th