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A bridge is a link between two worlds, a point of tension between two separate and often disparate locations. Free, belonging neither to one region or another, the bridge imposes upon the landscape and defies nature. Its existence embodies the will of mankind to construct these necessary bonds between people and places. A symbol of progress and innovation, the bridge, anonymous demonstration of the mastery and the durability of new techniques, is gradually becoming more and more light and fluid, constantly defying stateoftheart technology. As veritable aesthetic creations, bridges appear today not only as examples of masterful engineering, but also as incredible works of art. With its magnificent photographs, this book invites the reader to rediscover these modernday sculptures.
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Publish dateDec 31, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Our Earth Our Earth
2Layout:
3© Rwaleson | Dreamstime.com
4Introduction
5Was the first bridge perhaps an accident of nature?
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6Suspended Bridge Location: Mustang, Annapurna, Nepal Material: Steel
7I. Stone and Brick
8Airan rivers, near the town of Uzès, to the city of Nîmes.
9monastery, then to the collegiate church of St. Didier of
10Avignon at the end of the 19th century.
11gold jewellery.
12scalloped staircases, and two small fortresses, one of which
13Borgo Ticino neighbourhood on the river’s right bank.
14The Charles Bridge (Karlùv most) over the Vltava, one of
15The Rialto Bridge spanning Venice’s Grand Canal was built
16The Rialto Bridge’s pure lines and rich ornamentation
17Contino, one of the architects responsible for the Rialto
18Palace in Beijing, the former summer residence of the Chinese
19In 1894, the United Kingdom’s Builder Magazine called
20landmarks in London.
21rests between the Swan Islands in the landscape park of
22workshop of Vincenzo Tortori, close to Tsarskoye Selo, where
23of the river or stream.
24II. Wood
25River. At the bridge’s centre point, the Water Tower, an
26monuments in Switzerland.
27only wood. In spite of these precautions, a large flood in
28the magnificence of its previous incarnations.
29Old Wooden Bridge Location: El Calafate, Argentina
30The Sam Wagner Covered Bridge or Gottlieb Brown Covered
31III. Metal
32The Ha’penny Bridge, a pedestrian bridge over the River
33The Menai Suspension Bridge links the Isle of Anglesey
34The Clifton Bridge, a symbol of the city of Bristol, crosses
35limestone and Rosendale cement.
36The Greig Street Bridge in Inverness crosses the River Ness.
37A gift to the nation of France from the Russian tsar whose
38Dalou or Georges Récipon; the statues along the downstream
39as for BASE and bungee jumpers.
40The Victoria Falls Bridge crosses the Zambezi River and
41Due to the significant increase in traffic and congestion that
42The original Kinzua Bridge, the highest bridge in the world
43the transport of passengers and vehicles across the canal
44At the time of its opening in 1931, the George Washington
45(Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White, 1937)
46Sydney Harbour. Thousands of vehicles and pedestrians
47De Groot, a member of the New Guard political party, rode
48and Balboa after the building of the Panama Canal. It
49highway across the canal.
50famous by the film The Longest Day by Darryl Zanuck.
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