Øresund Link Bridge, Denmark Sweden Sea Crossing, Georg Rotne Design
Øresund Link Bridge Denmark
Danish Cultural Institute Lecture: New Sea Crossing for Denmark & Sweden
page updated 3 Sep 2016 ; 27 Mar 2001
Øresund Link
‘The Øresund Link: Bridging Denmark and Sweden’
Georg Rotne, Architect, Associate Professor: School of Architecture,
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Øresund Link Bridge between Denmark and Sweden designed by Georg Rotne:
photo : Hajotthu / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Review by Adrian Welch
Georg Rotne
Georg Rotne started the talk by showing us the Kylesku bridge in the (North-West of Scotland), maybe to form a link in our minds between Scotland and Denmark. The image was to be an important one as the slides focused in on the trusses of the Øresund Link Bridge: the same curvaceous form here repeated not four times, but around four hundred times. After some shots of Venice and Palladian bridges Georg went on to decry the predominating efficiency and economy of the Industrial Revolution bridges, by the likes of Brunel and Stevenson.
The Øresund Link was introduced with a map showing both Denmark and Sweden, followed by a breathtaking satellite photo of the Øresund: the scale of the undertaking was phenomenally large, ranking with Chek Lap Kok (airport) or the Great Wall of China. Georg was proud of the bridge’s solidity and monumentality, not aspects much in vogue of late. He made some good points about the weakness of some of the other five competing consortia:
Calatrava’s three bridges were too detailed and focused on the ‘ship’ bridge forming just 1/8 of the link. Rotne maintained that the bridge will almost always be seen from the distance and should be designed with, ‘simplicity, humanity and straightfowardness’.
Georg finished the lecture by answering a never-ending stream of questions, noting that one good aspect of the new link were the double-sized Schnapps measures now found in some København bars: Swedish measures!
Eighth Danish Cultural Institute Lecture: Øresund Link Talk: 27th March 2001 Edinburgh College of Art
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, northern Europe
Copenhagen Architecture
Contemporary Architecture in the Danish Capital – architectural selection below:
Copenhagen Architecture Designs – chronological list
Key Scottish Bridge: Kylesku Bridge, Sutherland
Georg Rotne designer / Ove Arup engineer
Date of construction: 1985
Copenhagen Building News – Bridge Selection
Cirkelbroen Copenhagen : Olafur Eliasson
image : Olafur Eliasson
Cirkelbroen Copenhagen
Teglværk Bridge, Copenhagen : HVIDT ARKITEKTER
photo from architect firm
Teglværk Bridge
Copenhagen Bridge Competition : Studio Bednarski and Flint & Neill win
picture from architects practice
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