[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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