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The Happy Pontist: 10 essential bridges books: 9. Calatrava Bridges
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. 10 essential bridges books: 9. Calatrava Bridges. And so, we come to Santiago Calatrava. Tzonis and Donadei, Thames and Hudson, 272 pp, 2005) is ten years out of date now but remains the most up-to-date guide to this superstar's bridges, both built and unbuilt. As with most other books about the Spanish designer, it is in no sense a critical work, but is a celebration of his P.T. Barnumesque showmanship. In Valencia features some exquisitely shaped curv...
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The Happy Pontist: July 2015
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. 10 essential bridges books: 9. Calatrava Bridges. And so, we come to Santiago Calatrava. Tzonis and Donadei, Thames and Hudson, 272 pp, 2005) is ten years out of date now but remains the most up-to-date guide to this superstar's bridges, both built and unbuilt. As with most other books about the Spanish designer, it is in no sense a critical work, but is a celebration of his P.T. Barnumesque showmanship. In Valencia features some exquisitely shaped curv...
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The Happy Pontist: May 2015
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. Bath Quays Competition Shortlist Announced. The shortlist for the Bath Quays footbridge design competition. Forty-nine entrants have been whittled down to six, and it's a strong field:. AL A / AFA Consult. Flint and Neill / Moxon Architects. Grimshaw / Buro Happold. Heneghan Peng / Ove Arup. Marc Mimram / Webb Yates. Price and Myers / McDowell and Benedetti. Links to this post. London Bridges: 41. St James's Park Footbridge. From 1814 until 1825. A susp...
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The Happy Pontist: August 2014
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. Lancashire Bridges: 3. Penny Bridge, Caton. This bridge spans the River Lune midway between the two former railway bridges in my last post. Built in 1883, it comprises three elliptical sandstone arches. The roadway is level, with straight balustraded stone parapets either side. The bridge was designed by the Lancashire County surveyor, with local architects E.G. Paley and Hubert Austin. The Bridges of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Links to this post. Which ...
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The Happy Pontist: March 2015
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. Bridge competition debris part 27: Nine Elms / Pimlico runners up. Ah, what a wonderful thing is the internet. The organisers of the Nine Elms / Pimlico bridge design competition helpfully made all 74 entries available to the public online. And via public exhibitions. Initially, they made one image of each design available, although this represented only 30% of what each competing team was actually judged on. Ove Arup and Partners participated in a stag...
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The Happy Pontist: 10 essential bridges books: 8. Robert Maillart: Bridges and Constructions
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. 10 essential bridges books: 8. Robert Maillart: Bridges and Constructions. If you're looking for a book about the great Swiss engineer Robert Maillart. Is your man. He's the author of Robert Maillart's Bridges. 1979), Robert Maillart and the Art of Reinforced Concrete. 1991) and the biography Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist. 2008) Maillart also features prominently in his The Tower and the Bridge. The reason Bill's book is still worth sea...
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The Happy Pontist: 10 essential bridges books: 5. Bridgescape: The Art of Designing Bridges
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. 10 essential bridges books: 5. Bridgescape: The Art of Designing Bridges. It seems that bridge designers have been dissatisfied with the appearance of bridges for as long as bridges have been designed. Certainly in the twentieth century, as the divide between the disciplines of architecture and engineering became clearer, it has been a persistent preoccupation. In 1912, Henry Grattan Tyrrell published. Opening his preface with the words:. Concern over a...
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The Happy Pontist: January 2015
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. Irish Bridges: 2. Millennium Bridge, Dublin. There's a website set up to document Lancaster’s Lune Millennium Bridge. Built in 2001, which also attempted to chronicle a number of other Millennial Bridges. Built thanks to funding fever in Britain at the turn of the century. Some of these are significant and well known structures, such as the bridge between St Paul’s Cathedral and Bankside. Remarkably, this seemingly prosaic design was the winner in a des...
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The Happy Pontist: 10 essential bridges books: 6. The Work of Jörg Schlaich and his Team
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. 10 essential bridges books: 6. The Work of Jörg Schlaich and his Team. I was keen to include in my list of 10 essential bridges books a monograph on a contemporary designer. You can fill a bookshop with monographs on contemporary architects, but you might struggle to fill a shelf with books on specialist bridge designers. 2002), Exploring Boundaries. Licht Weit / Light Structures. 2005), but Holgate's monograph still has much to recommend it. Is undoubt...
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The Happy Pontist: October 2014
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A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. French Bridges: 3. Rognonas Suspension Bridge, Avignon. After the second world war, several European countries commenced a programme of reconstruction and development. In France, this led to a series of modern suspension bridges, of which the first was the Rognonas Bridge at Avignon. This bridge spans 255m across the Durance River to the south of Avignon. Completed in 1950, it is very similar to the 238m Ancenis Bridge. It's not just the concrete lattic...
