The Happy Pontist

A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design

28 July 2013

£4m to design white elephant

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Thomas Heatherwick's proposal for a "garden bridge" across London's Thames has been in the news again . BDOnline reports ...
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25 July 2013

"Pedestrian Bridges" by Andreas Keil

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This new book on the design of footbridges is part of Detail’s Practice series, a line of guidance notes aimed mainly at architectural desi...
14 July 2013

Sunderland's River Wear Crossing: A Post-Mortem

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Okay, while the dust slowly settles on this week's announcement that Sunderland's hubristic River Wear Crossing scheme has been canc...
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12 July 2013

Ding dong

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I will hopefully have more to post about this at the weekend, but for now: Sunderland City Council scraps plan to build £118million bridge...
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04 July 2013

Bridges news roundup

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Alfenz Bridge / Marte Marte Architects Intriguing concrete truss bridge with truss diagonals which vary geometry according to the intensity...
03 July 2013

Pont Jean-Jacques Bosc bridge design competition

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The lengthy design contest for a new 110m euro highway bridge over the River Garonne at Bordeaux is heading for its concluding stage. Launch...
26 June 2013

Salford Meadows Bridge design competition

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What amazing timing, for a new bridge design competition to follow so quickly after IABSE's design contest guidelines event ! Salford ...
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