[Closed] Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation Thread! This week- Bridges.

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a bridge that I cross most weeks on one of my favourite local loops
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not quite so architectural.. but a local bridge nonetheless

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This one:

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Not seen it myself. Would love to.

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ARRRGHH!

I knew someone would put up the Millau viaduct. Hardly an architectural masterpiece, Foster just drew a straight line across a valley. It boils my piss that everyone knows it as a Foster designed bridge yet is is the engineers who deserve ALL the credit.

It's not a straight line, is it? And it's certainly elegantly attractive, whether deliberately or by accident.

going here in May - providing I can walk by then 😕

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It does look pretty bloody spectakliar though LB.

(When is your sister gonna make some trousers for me?)

Love this one by Thomas Heatherwick in Paddington Basin. It curls up like a caterpillar or something.

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Brunel’s marvellous structure.

Bridges? Gotta be Calatrava, innit?

You can't get a decent view of this one any more as they've built all around it. Which is a pity,as its beautiful

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designed to look like the mast of a tall ship dontchaknow

Oresund bridge from Malmo to Copenhagen. Should be back there in July too 8)

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This fella knew a thing or two.

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I'm with leggyblonde regarding something being wrong with the plaudits that civil engineers receive compared to the recognition that architects get. Certainly in recent decades. To me, the appearance is the first step, the hard part is making it work.

I don't think architects are just swanning in with a paintbrush and a vision, are they?

I'm quite fond of the Wobbly Bridge, not least cos it's in a wonderful location.

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Saw this bridge last year, or at least its replacement

Ridden over this a few times.
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I can just about see this from my house
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This one goes up and down, don't you know

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And another effort from Mr Calatrava: The Hulme Arch, just darn't road from me

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Does spaghetti count as one big bridge. Always liked it.

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So much money has been spent on this bridge that it will be heading all the way out of Europe hopefully
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loving the [s]pearl necklace bridge[/s] the Pearl River Necklace Bridge Greatape

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I used to walk across this one in Bristol regularly, the horns are counterbalances.

I like this one
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This ones always good for a laugh but apparently its gone now 🙁

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And the much lamented shonky bridge in glen feshie - been shonky for decades but finally succumbed to the winter storms
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I do like these threads Elfin. 🙂 I like bridges too. This one is on the new waterfront at Barcelona:

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And one I took myself:
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Cromwells Bridge near Stoneyhurst College sat on this and eaten my butties on a few walks round there. 8000 of his troops went across it to the [b]Battle of Preston[/b] although why someone would want to fight for Preston I'm not sure 😀 This area is supposedly where some of the Lord of the Rings ideas came from as his son was at college there or he lectured there for a while can't remember the story I was too busy eating my pork pie

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It depends on the architects; some can cause nothing but problems and don't seem to have the faintest idea of what can be designed with respect to bridges. On my last bridge design I had serious headaches trying to get the ruddy thing to work after the architect demanded certain elements.

I'd love to work on a bridge like the Milau Viaduct

Thread title FAIL - bridges are examples of civil engineering, do try harder little Fred.

Anyway I rode this the first time then bottled it the second - both solo.

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druid's underwater bridge has to be the best.

This was meant to be a pic of Le Pont D'Avignon but some other features slipped in. [i]*Cough*[/i]

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TJ its was some german students that brought down the wire bridge up at the glen, I was told by a local that they were trying to get a picture with lots of them on it and they all started bouncing and brought it down!

from what ive heard some folks are trying to raise money to put it back up

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The Lesbury Labia

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Request for a picture of the Transporter bridge in Newport please.

enduro-aid

My dad has in his will ( he ain't dead yet) money to build a new bridge or two in the highlands as he hated the wire bridges of which there are a few to cross to complete the munros- thats one of the ones on the list to be done ( depending on when of course). A nice suspension bridge like the falls of tarf one would be good.

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There is no other better collection of so many stunning bridges so close together anywhere else.

I quite like this in a funny kinda way. This was by all accounts a quick fix by our council. Many decades ago!

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Commute has changed, but I used to cross this once each way every day. One of Britain's few remaining toll bridges. Built tall to allow ships to pass beneath on their way along the Ship Canal to Manchester. Warburton Bridge, Cheshire:

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Warby bridge. It's still 12p each way or all day for 25p!!

Another t[s]r[/s]oll bridge close to me...

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The Carrick A Rede rope bridge in County Antrim

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Kylesku Bridge, way up north - I just love that graceful sweeping curve
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Ponte Vecchio, Florence
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Just up the canal from Warby Bridge, Barton High Level Bridge. It was built for (what is now) the M60 to cross the Ship Canal, and as such the bridge was also built tall to permit ships to pass beneath. Now, however, there is no ship traffic in Salford and Manchester's docks, so the elevation is vestigial. Scary driving across it in a heavy wind, though..!

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Technically not a bridge, but here's the Glenfinan Viaduct with obligatory steam train
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It's still 12p each way or all day for 25p!!

Genius, huh..!

Free for bikes, though, which annoys the queuing drivers. 😀

Made famous by Kevin Cummins' iconic album cover for Closer, *another* bridge in Hulme, Manchester:

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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, beautiful. And just down the road from me:

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Bregante - yeah, reminds me of an Escher drawing, although it does work.

TJ - if you like the Steall wire bridge, try this one in Glen Etive. You are supposed to sit in the (now virtually bottomless) cart and pull yourself across!

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Bridge of sighs, Oxford

These two are quite close to my house and both cross the same stretch of water within half a mile of each other.

The elegant solution: This one spins!
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The volume traffic solution:
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TJ is that wire bridge near Steall Falls? I think I've used that one in winter when the falls were ice axe territory.

Also, it would appear (from this thread and the power station thread) that the leg end that is TSY lives close to me. Should I leave the county now?

*puts Macgyver on the stalking list*

Please say you live Eynsham side of the toll bridge?

TSY I used to commute over that toll bridge every day! My Gran still lives round there

I've been over that toll bridge. And this one:

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This one's only a couple of miles from me.
Victoria Bridge on the Severn Valley Railway.
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Me too Toab. Not any more though. I go over this one instead...

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apparently it was originally put together with no nails or screws or anything. It was taken down by a bunch of engineers so they could see how it worked, but then they couldn't put it back together again. So it no uses screws etc.

I'm not sure of the truth behind that one, but if it is true its a great shame 🙁

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Eynsham side??? noooo, I'm a city dweller in the slums of Jericho

What you need is a bit of East Coast action: The Orwell Bridge.

Looked lovely when it was built and stopped all those lorries going through town when I was a lad.

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One local to me now in St. Ives... Very picturesque...

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Another one what is near me. Been in side this one...

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You should come and move out west side Macgyver, it's nice over this way.

Blenheim Palace that last one?

Did the big building in the background give it away? 😉

And city livings pretty good where I am. Canal a minute or two away, Port Meadow 10 minute walk. I hardly ever use the car and the Mrs can paddle to work. What's not to like!

Still pretty local...

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Stangely I've never really looked at the house. Only been to Blenheim to run round it for the OX5 or party at it (Wakestock to see Groove Armada!)

I had a friend who grew up in the grounds there... driving across that bridge towards the house smashed of your face can be very trippy indeed.

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Now no more, replaced by the great St Ives to Cambridge (mis)Guided Bus Route.

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And the much lamented shonky bridge in glen feshie - been shonky for decades but finally succumbed to the winter storms

Actually, it was swept away in [url= http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/carnachuin-bridge-glen-feshie-swept-away/00936/ ]September 2009[/url], so hardly during winter storms. 🙂

It was supposed to be an integral part of a ride that I did there a week or two later, oh well the bit of the ride I did do was fun at least. 🙂

Crossed regularly in my salad days. Kingsgate Bridge, Durham.

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TJ the Steall wire bridge re-opened last August. I'm not sure I'd want to see it replaced with an easier crossing though at present smaller kids struggle to reach the hand cables.

Another great Scottish bridge. There's a great photo of this Harry Henniker's book with a couple of guys on bikes on top of it - needs someone on it to show it off properly. It's railed off now.

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And another. Bridge just visible at the top:

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Forth Bridge, one from the top and one from below:

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And a Roman bridge near Pollenca, Majorca:

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TJ the Steall wire bridge re-opened last August. I'm not sure I'd want to see it replaced with an easier crossing though at present smaller kids struggle to reach the hand cables.

If / when I am looking to build a bridge or two I will take advice from concerned parties such as the MCofS and the national parks authorities

I don't see why a better bridge would not be a decent idea tho. Perhpas there are batter candidates.

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