18 April 2011

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
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
Technical long
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.
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3 comments:

  1. Helena RussellApril 19, 2011 at 1:53 PM

    Thanks for the mention of the awards. You were right in your assumption that some bridges you would have assumed to be natural finalists were missing because of a lack of nominations - rather disappointing from our point of view. Luckily there were plenty of other very strong entries.

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  2. The Happy PontistApril 20, 2011 at 9:21 AM

    I think it's nice not to just see the better known structures on a list, but to be introduced to bridges which have perhaps not had the publicity they deserve.

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  3. footbridgeMay 16, 2011 at 6:00 PM

    You have info about the Butarque footbridge here:

    http://esemasjota.wordpress.com/

    It is designed by Cesma Ingenieros (www.cesmaing.com) in collaboration with s+j arquitectos.

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