STRANGEST BRIDGES
1. ROLLING BRIDGE
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act as a walkway over a small section
of London's Grand Union Canal
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39-foot timber and steel bridge
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Created by UK-based design firm Heatherwick
Studio in 2004
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Why It's Innovative: A hydraulic system built into the bridge's handrail allows it to
retract and curl into an octagon. The retractable design allows for boats to
cruise through the canal unobstructed, and the bridge rolls up every Friday at
noon
2. HENDERSON WAVES
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Singapore's tallest pedestrian bridge
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linking Mount Faber Park with Telok
Blangah Hill Park
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118-foot tall
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about 900 feet long
3. JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK BRIDGE
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crosses Lake Paranoa, Brazil
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asymmetrical bridge
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Completed in 2002
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3900-foot-long bridge
4. MILLAU VIADUCT
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one of the world's tallest bridges
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its deck is 885 feet above sea level,
drivers often find themselves above the clouds on foggy days
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its apex at 1125 feet
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to carry travelers over the valley of
the Tarn River
5. PONT GUSTAVE-FLAUBERT
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Europe's tallest lift bridge, stand 282 feet
tall
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crosses the Seine, one of France's
major commercial waterways
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Why It's Innovative: Instead of separating in the middle like a drawbridge, the Pont
Gustave-Flaubert's deck is lifted straight up by a butterfly-shaped pulley
system so tall ships can pass through. The deck takes about 12 minutes to be
pulled all the way up, which happens about 30 or 40 times per year.
6. LANGKAWI SKY BRIDGE
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curved pedestrian bridge is 2000 feet
above sea level at the top of Mount Mat Cincang in Malaysia
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to walk across the 400-foot long
structure must ride up to it in a cable car
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Set above the treetops, is one of the highest
elevated single-stay bridges in the world
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the deck is less than 6 feet wide and its curved
shape gives travelers a panoramic view of Langkawi, an archipelago of 99
islands.
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each end is fitted with triangular observation
decks
7. DA VINCI BRIDGE
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pedestrian bridge opened in 2001 and
crosses the E18 highway
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300 feet long and built the walkway
from Norwegian pine
8. PYTHONBRUG
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linking Amsterdam's Sporenburg area with Borneo
Island
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opened in 2001 and is about 300 feet long
9. GATESHEAD MILLENNIUM BRIDGE
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award-winning tilt-bridge is the
brainchild of Wilkinson Eyre, a London-based architecture firm
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crosses the River Tyne, connecting
Gateshead and New Castle
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Why It's Innovative: A system of six hydraulic rams can pivot the bridge's walkway at a
40-degree angle in order to let boats pass. Wilkinson Eyre describes the
bridge's movement as looking like a "slowly opening eyelid" when it
raises, a process that takes fewer than 5 minutes
10. ORESUND BRIDGE
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crosses the Oresund strait and joins
Sweden with Denmark
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total length of 4.8 miles and was
completed in 2000
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begins as a cable-stayed bridge in
Sweden and ends as a tunnel in Denmark
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A small artificial island was built
around the tunnel's entrance to keep water from creeping in
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equipped to handle four lanes of traffic, also
has a double-track railway
11. SLAUERHOFFBRUG
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a tail bridge that can quickly be raised to allow ships to pass
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completed in 2000
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spans a small section of the Harlinger Vaart
Riverthe Slauerhoffbrug is lifted up by a dual hydraulic system that is built
into its pylon.
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Why It's Innovative: The Slauerhoffbrug is L-shaped, with its foundation sitting
adjacent to the road
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