Iryna Nalyvaiko: The main idea of the project was to create an architectural shape with a delicate relation to nature that will highlight and bring attention to its importance and resources. Making nature more accessible will make people appreciate it to a greater extent.
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Crossing links Berkeley housing scheme with Maidenhead
Built by Agirbas & Wienstroer in Leverkusen, Germany with date 2012. Images by Thomas Mayer. The City The Ludwig-buck system is a historical park from the 1930s. The recreation area with artificial ponds, brid...
Completed in 2007 in Deerlyck, Belgium. Images by Daylight. Situated on the Queen Elisabeth Avenue, connecting Knokke with Ostende, this pedestrian bridge full fills two functions. On the one hand, the bridge...
Модулно скеле Layher Allround за изграждане на временен пешеходен мост за възстановяване на достъп. Пространствено укрепване със стандартни скеле елементи.
Katy TrailKaty Trail represents a remarkable resource for the residents […]
Image 7 of 15 from gallery of Moses Bridge / RO&AD Architecten. Photograph by RO&AD Architecten
The fourth in this series of posts regarding East London bridges finally brings us to the bridge which was the reason for my visit. It’s a short distance and a few tube stops east of the Mile End, West Ham and Stratford bridges covered in the last three posts. There must be few schools in Britain which can boast a footbridge of such architectural distinction as this one. It was built in 2000 and links the two halves of a girls’ school across Plashet Grove, providing traffic-free and weatherproof access between the buildings for the students. It cost £560,000. The designers were Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects with Techniker, and to my mind this is easily the best bridge that Techniker have designed (I’ve covered some other examples at Royal Victoria Dock, CanaryWharf, and of course in Sunderland). The footbridge meanders for 67m in an S-curve at first floor level, and the presence of curvature is a recurring motif in the design. Despite the fact that it is fundamentally a hard, metal bridge, comprising a half-through twin girder layout with steel decking, the bridge is overwhelmingly soft in nature, thanks to the use of a fabric membrane roof carried on curved support frames. It looks a little like a series of wagons out of a Western film stuck end to end, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. The support frames for the roof alternate along the length of the bridge, such that from any perspective, the rhythmic geometry is always interesting. The ribbed-tunnel effect is punctured at midspan by two angular steel-and-glass belvederes. These are the only windows on the bridge, which is an unconventional approach on any modern covered footbridge. The conventional wisdom for such bridges is that users prefer transparency, but this is a bridge over an urban road – the truth is that there is not much to see, and the belvederes are therefore more relevant as meeting points than as viewing platforms. The roof membrane is not sealed at its lower edge, with a gap allowing free ventilation. This is covered by a mesh, presumably to keep out pigeons. Concern over pigeons is also apparent from the presence of an anti-perching wire along the outer flange of the main beams, which I suspect was an afterthought. Details like this are a perennial curse of the bridge designer’s life. The roof covering lets in considerable light. It is somewhat covered in grime at present, but apparently gets cleaned every few years. In general the bridge appears well-maintained and the design to have been robust. I was told on my visit that the original drainage (which ran through a tube forming the upper flange of the main beams) failed, and was replaced by separate drain-pipes which deliver water from the roof directly to the roadway below. Drainage is another detail which can challenge even the most conscientious bridge designer. The bridge deck was noticeably prone to vibration when I visited, but not seriously so. The bridge superstructure is visually unusual and attractive, but certainly not the only interesting feature of the design. The steel piers which support the bridge are also possibly unique, being formed out of single steel plates only 32mm thick. They are prevented from buckling by their curvature, and an example of remarkable lateral thinking. I think this is one of London’s best footbridges, highly innovative in its design but not self-consciously so. The unusual design details are all in the service of a clearly-expressed and very attractive aesthetic. Further information: Google maps / Bing maps Structurae LUSAS Architen Landrell Plashet School Footbridge (MacLaurin, The Structural Engineer, 2001) Bridge Builders (Pearce and Jobson, 2002) 30 Bridges (Wells, 2002) An Encyclopaedia of Britain's Bridges (McFetrich, 2010)
Quzhou Luming Park by Turenscape, in Quzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Ing. Jürg Conzett, Chur Here, one can see how the structure of the bridge functions (my interpretation anyway): The supporting flat steel members were pulled back and put under tension (see base-plates for winches in foreground?), were then loaded with the stone slabs (between which there is a thin stainless-steel sheet), which were then wedged together, forming a compression-plane (one can see the wedges jutting out above the 'eyelets'), thus keeping the bridge from swaying. Voila. (am I right?) The railing has nothing to do with the support of the bridge. Check out the 'set' on the right for more pictures of this one.
OMGEVING: Working in a historical context, of the continental Europe where the architecture of the past is still very much present, architects are often faced with the question of whether they should restore the physical or rehabilitate the conceptual. This question came to the fore in response to the combined decision of the city of […]
Image 1 of 15 from gallery of Footbridge in Maribor / Ja Studio + Tadj-Farzin Studio.
Background Isthmus: Until recently the site of an NZ Air Force base, Hobsonville Point is a new suburb of Auckland designed to generate a socially successful and sustainable community. After a decade of development thousands of people are already living in new homes on safe streets connected to transport networks, schools, parks, playgrounds and public […]
Image 2 of 40 from gallery of Tintra Footbridge / Rintala Eggertsson Architects. Photograph by Dag Jenssen
If you are afraid of heights you will probably want to look away now. Here are some of the most precarious or plain scary bridges that face brave adventurers around the world.
** Picture Overload!** ♫ Beat Connection- Think/Feel ♫ First of all these pictures don't do it justice of how AMAZING this park was. This was the perfect evergreen escape and I was left speechless. Capilano Suspension Bridge Park had been on my bucket list for a while and I'm so glad I finally got to check it off my list because it was one of the highlights of my trip. The feeling was so surreal! This park is located in Northern Vancouver which is only a couple minutes from Downtown Vancouver. There are a couple bridges throughout the park but Treetops Adventure was my favorite because it had many different bridges connected to each other decorated with orange lights. I felt like I was on an actual tree house, which offered some of the best aerial views! To be honest though the whole park was simply magical, every corner was picture-worthy! :) If you guys ever get a chance to visit Vancouver don't pass up the opportunity to visit Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, you won't regret it ....I'm already wishing I could go back! x StephC
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Chongqing is a city born in the mountains. People in Chongqing have developed their own way of using lands with topography, and have created unique urban landscape and lifestyle. Atelier Scale has carried and extended this wisdom, in the landscape of the Hill Residence, 10.7-ha residential community. Return of the Hill There is an existing […]
Melkwegbridge by NEXT Architects is an ingenious combination pedestrian and bicycle/wheelchair bridge in the Dutch city of Purmerend. via Contemporist &
Rosa Barba has become the most renowned prize for landscape architecture in Europe. It is organized within the European biennial of landscape architecture that goes on every 2 years in Barcelona. For more details please visit website of the biennial. This year jury of Rosa Barba Prize reviewed 427 projects from which 9 finalists were […]
Up until the end of the 1970s, building rubble, domestic refuse and industrial waste had been deposited in the Georgswerder landfill. In the early 80s it had already been established that leachate water from the landfill site contained particularly hazardous dioxins, which is why this site gained a sad fame in that time. In the years to follow, concepts for the remediation of the landfill have been elaborated and implemented ...
Interior And Access Refurbishing for Public Use. Karst Complex Natural Monument Ojo Guareña. T. M. De Cueva. Merindad De Sotoscueva (Burgos). Design: Manuel Fonseca Gallego. Architect. Promoter: Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Medio Ambiente, en colaboración la Consejería de Educación y Cultura. Work managers: Santiago Cid Cuartero. Architect. Jesús Rodríguez Jiménez. […]
