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Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mind

by DoDo
Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 at 06:40:29 AM EST

Today I jump in for PeWi.

Santiago Calatrava is a European star architect from Spain, who seems above all bent on building cable stays and arches in all kinds of seemingly improbable forms, whatever kind of building he was entrusted with designing. His work includes a number of bridges around the world. Here is the 'leaning arch' of the Pont de l'Europe in Orléans, France:

Even stranger is the Three Holland Bridge near Amsterdam's Schipol airport:

What strange bridges do you know?

Earlier bridge bloggings in PeWi's diary.

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Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mind | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mi (4.00 / 3)

I always liked Rotterdam's Erasmusbrug

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by Thor Heyerdahl (thor.heyerdahl@NOSPAMgmail.com) on Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 at 07:56:16 AM EST

Re: Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mi (4.00 / 3)

Calatrava build a similar one in Sevilla. The picture doesn't really show its beauty - in nature it is much more beautiful. (btw. this is a picture from a site about the bridge)

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 at 09:12:01 AM EST
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Re: Tokyo ca 1874 (4.00 / 3)

We got a few nice bridges, too:

(Source: University of the Air Library)

I will become a patissier, God willing.

by tuasfait on Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 at 08:50:20 AM EST

Re: Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mi (4.00 / 3)

I always thought this one looked strange, but I can't really explain why:

--Mostar Bridge--
Built by Ottoman Turks (1566), blown to bits by Bosnian-Croats (1993), blocks and pieces located and hoisted out of water by Hungarian military divers (1997-1999), blocks studied for reconstruction (2000-2001), and finally bridge rebuilt (2001-2004)

by Alex in Toulouse on Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 at 10:28:38 AM EST

Re: Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mi (none / 1)

Calatrava's work is impressive...a piece of art that is a bridge too. Then there's Mostar...what a contrast!!

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by whataboutbob on Fri Dec 2nd, 2005 at 04:49:14 PM EST
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Re: Friday Bridge Blogging: Calatrava's Twisted Mi (4.00 / 2)

A bridge that is going have its 100th anniversary in 2009, the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Canada.

It is 1839 meters long and rises 105 meters above the river bed. The bridge contains 12 500 tonnes of structural steel and it took 31 920 litres of paint to give it the original two black coats.

According to Canadian government collections, it is still the highest and longest steel railway bridge in the world. The Canadian Pacific Railway continues to use it to this day.

1960 photo.

Click here for a Virtual Reality panorama.

"now this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." W. Churchill

by Thor Heyerdahl (thor.heyerdahl@NOSPAMgmail.com) on Sat Dec 3rd, 2005 at 04:47:15 AM EST

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