The Kingsgate Footbridge over the Wear
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Description
"This footbridge designed by Ove Arup was completed in 1963. It is 17 metres high and 106.7 metres long. Arup considered this bridge his finest work. He planned every detail, including the unusual way it was constructed. The need for scaffolding on the river was eliminated by casting the bridge in two halves, one for each bank. The halves were then swivelled out from the banks to meet. Concrete Quarterly described the result as "A thin, taut, white band stretching horizontally across the valley, resting on a pair of slender tapered fingers in a V-shape rising from each side of the river". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsgate_Bridge http://www.arup.com/Projects/Kingsgate_footbridge.aspx http://www.engineering-timelines.com/who/arup_O/arupOve9.asp" Photo by David P Howard, 2013. -
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License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3634627
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 7 years, 8 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2013-08-27 -
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