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Bridge Architecture : Architectural Structures
Major Crossing Projects from around the world
post updated 11 October 2021
Architecture of Bridges
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Bridge Architecture. We cover completed bridges, new crossing designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the world. The focus is on contemporary bridges.
We have 4 pages of Bridge Design selections.
Contemporary Bridge Designs : A-E
Bridge Architecture : F-P (this page)
Bridge Structures : Q-S
Bridge Designs : T-Z
Major Bridge Architecture
Recent Bridge Design additions to this page:
Garden Bridge, London, England, UK
Design: Thomas Heatherwick Studio
image from designers
London Garden Bridge across the River Thames
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is to investigate the £200m Garden Bridge project. The scrapped proposal was promoted under former London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Grand Canal Bridge, Venice, northeastern Italy
Design: Santiago Calatrava
www.palladium.de, Barbara Burg/Oliver Schuh
The first bridge to be built across Venice’s Grand Canal in almost 75 years. Designed by architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava, the bridge will take its place up-stream from the famed Rialto Bridge, the first bridge to span the Grand Canal.
Infinity Bridge, north east England, UK
Design: Expedition Engineering
photograph : James Newton
The brief called for an iconic structure as part of the Stockton-on-Tees regeneration of the North Shore site. The resulting footbridge now links the north and south shores and provides better access to business and jobs in the area.
Kurilpa Bridge, Australia
Design: Cox Rayner + Arup
photo © David Sandison
Designed by the Queensland division of Australia’s Cox Rayner Architects with Arup, the £35.5 million pedestrian and cycle bridge connects Brisbane’s Central Business District with the city’s South Bank and its major cultural precinct. This is the second project the two practices have collaborated on in the last decade following the completion of the Goodwill Bridge in 2000.
Lee Valley Bridges, Hackney, London, UK
Design: Amin Taha Architects
image from architects
Lee Valley Bridge Designs – 20 Jul 2011
Two bridge designs close to the London Olympics site – both bridges are intended as very economic solutions to long running access problems. The architect was instructed to develop the bridge designs to planning submission level.
Bridge Designs from around the globe, alphabetical:
Gateshead Millennium Bridge, UK
Design: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
This river crossing is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne in England. It spans this major English river between Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter and the Quayside of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Glasgow Bridge, Scotland
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership / Atkins
picture : Steve Hosey Graphics
Golden Gate Bridge, USA
Design: Irving F. Morrow / Gertrude C. Morrow
photo © Andrew McRae
Karolina Bridge, Czech Republic
Design: Eva Jiricna Architects
picture from architect
Lee Valley Bridge Designs, London, UK
Amin Taha Architects
image from architects
A new bridge will service the proposed Cricket and Rugby changing facilities and new pitches, relieving the New Community Centre. The proposal economically retains abutments, adds cycle and disabled access through the use of landscaping leaving Currently on site and due for completion within six months.
Lintas Bridge, France
Ian Ritchie Architects
image © Jocelyne Van den Bossche
A thin argon lighting strip reinforces the ‘tension’ of the design, and creates at dusk and evening a ‘virtual ceiling’ across the landscaped courtyard. Two asymmetrical masts suspend a simple braced horizontal steel roof plane, which in turn suspends by cables a horizontal steel floor plane.
London Millennium Bridge, England, UK
Foster + Partners
picture © Adrian Welch
Lower Hatea Bridge, New Zealand
Knight Architects
image from architects
Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, USA
Santiago Calatrava
picture : Santiago Calatrava LLC
Passerelle Valmy, Paris, France
DFA | Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
photo : David Boureau
Peace Bridge Calgary, Canada
Santiago Calatrava
picture : Santiago Calatrava LLC
Puentes Cascara, Spain
Designers: West 8 & MRIO
photo © West 8 urban design & land. architecture
More new Bridge Designs online soon
Bridge Architecture – No Images
Fabian Way Bridge, Port Tennant, Swansea, Wales, UK
2007
Studio Bednarski
Fenghua Bridge, Tianjin, China
2007
Marc Mimram Architects
Newport City Footbridge – over River Usk, Newport, Wales, UK
2006
Grimshaw with Atkins
Piazzale Roma Bridge, Venice, Italy
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Santiago Calatrava Architects
Puente del Alamillo, Sevilla, Spain
1992
Santiago Calatrava Architects
Calgary Bridge Design Competition
Calgary Bridge Design Contest
image from architect
Calgary Bridge Design Competition
San Diego Coronado Bridge, California, USA – Lighting Contest Winners
image from Peter Fink
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