So much so, in fact, that they sometimes disappear – parts of the bridge are “hydrophilic” and lie a small distance below the surface of the water to bring the sky reflectively down to earth. Compared to the Christo/Jeanne-Claude installation, the “floating sky islands” appear rather restrained. The pontoon bridge by unarchitecte connects the C9 Food Street of LUXES’ Island in Luxelakes Water City – a tourist-oriented artificial recreation area – with the artwork “Chengdu Rainbow Hut” by Japanese artist Tsuneo Sekiguchi. Many will be reminded of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Floating Piers, but unlike the large-scale temporary installation, the Floating Islands of Sky in Chengdu are designed to last ten years before being renewed and transformed at the same time. A distinctive hull-like edge on the underside provides soundproofing against the highway below. The curves not only allowed trees to remain on site, but also avoided expansion joints in the bridge. Over its total length of 283 meters, the work by the offices of Checa Arquitectura and Onda Arquitectura comprises three column-free bridge spans, each 63 meters long. Onda Atlántica Pedestrian Bridge, Checa Arquitectura, Onda Arquitecturaĭepending on where you are coming from, the Onda Atlántica pedestrian bridge in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria elegantly describes first a small, then an enormously sweeping arch – or vice versa – with which it sinuously connects Las Canteras beach with the Sanapu wharf. Accordingly, the wave-shaped work of art was prefabricated by machine in an environmentally friendly manner and then lifted into place and installed by crane.
The design was based on the premise of including the use of sustainable materials and creating minimal impact on the natural habitat on site. In fact, Volkan Alkanoglu’s approximately 19-meter-long wooden bridge is so “naturally” shapely that it also adds tremendous visual interest to the creek landscape. That changed in 2021 with the Drift Bridge, which benefits more than just the neighborhoods on either side of the water it connects.
Traditionally, there was no crossing over a creek in Fort Worth, Texas for a distance of seven residential blocks. Below we present five iconic pedestrian bridges that were built in 2021. How handsome and original this can sometimes be was once again demonstrated last year. We present five iconic examples of them.Īrchitects do not only plan and design buildings no, sometimes they also devote themselves to the beautiful form of bridges. 2021 was a good year for pedestrian bridges.
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