The Happy Pontist

I saw two more footbridges in Madrid. Both form part of a footway and cycleway connecting the districts of Vicálvaro and San Blas, runni...

In October, I joined a trip to Madrid to see various interesting engineering structures. I've picked three of the footbridges to fea...

I've had time to jot down a few more comments on the papers presented at Footbridge 2011. Again, this is a highly selective bunch, there...

Okay, I thought I would attempt a quick round-up of some of the papers and presentations from Footbridge 2011 which particularly caught my e...

I've been waiting for an opportunity to feature one of the bridges of Xavier Font Solà (of the design firm Alfa Polaris ), and with his ...

To round off this series of posts on the bridges of Eduardo Torroja , I've got two more concrete arch bridges built in the early 1940s. ...

The pre-war years were clearly a busy time for Eduardo Torroja . At about the same time as he was completing the brilliant Alloz Aqueduct i...