Shortlist announced for Footbridge Awards 2011

The shortlist has been announced for the 2011 Footbridge Awards. The winners will be announced at the Footbridge 2011 conference in Poland on 6th July.

I've included links below only if I've covered the bridge on this blog previously.

Aesthetics short

• Bracklinn Footbridge, Scotland
• Buitengragt Pedestrian Bridge, Cape Town, South Africa
• Castleford Footbridge, England
• Glass Bridge, Lisbon, Portugal
• Hillhouse Pedestrian Bridges, New Haven, CT, USA

Aesthetics medium

• Butarque Footbridge, Leganes, Spain
• Knokke Heist Footbridge, Belgium
• Lyon Confluence Footbridge, France
• Paloma Footbridge, Madrid, Spain
• Riverside Footbridge, Cambridge, UK
• Sant Fruitos Footbridge, Barcelona, Spain
• Te Rewa Rewa Bridge, New Plymouth, New Zealand

Aesthetics long

• Center Street Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
• College Bridge, Kortrijk, Belgium
• Esch-sur Alzette Footbridge, Luxembourg
• Footbridge la Defense, Paris, France
• Rhein-Herne Canal Footbridge, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Technical short

• Buitengragt Pedestrian Bridge, Cape Town, South Africa
• Castleford Footbridge, England
• Glass Bridge, Lisbon, Portugal
• Marinic Bridge, Slovenia
• Stahlhillebrug, Belgium

Technical medium

• Bridge of Peace, Tblisi, Georgia
• Knokke Heist Footbridge, Belgium
• Paloma Footbridge, Madrid, Spain
• Riverside Footbridge, Cambridge, England
• Robert I Schroder Overcrossing, California, USA
• Tradeston Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland

Technical long

• College Bridge, Kortrijk, Belgium
• Center Street Bridge, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
• Footbridge la Defense, Paris, France
• Forthside Bridge, Stirling, Scotland
• Kurilpa Bridge, Brisbane, Australia
• Rhein-Herne Canal Footbridge, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Last October, I put together my own list of bridges that I would have liked to see nominated for these awards. Particularly significant omissions from the shortlist are the Infinity Bridge and Ponte della Costituzione, although this may simply be because nobody bothered to nominate them.

I'll be attending the announcement of the winners, and will hopefully find time to cover them in more detail here when that happens. I haven't yet had a chance to look for details of the several shortlisted bridges which are unfamiliar to me, so I won't hazard any guesses as to which bridges will do well in the awards.