Tallest Bridge
The world's highest road bridge has been inaugurated in southern France by President Jacques Chirac.
The Millau bridge over the River Tarn in the Massif Central mountains is more than 300m (984ft) high - taller even than the country's Eiffel Tower.
The bridge, which opens to traffic on Thursday, was built to clear summer traffic jams around the town.
Seven slender piers support the roadway, rising into seven graceful pylons bound to the bridge with what look like cobwebs of steel."The bridge is just on the clouds," Millau Mayor Jacques Godfrain told the BBC's World Today programme. "The architect, Norman Foster, gave us a model of art."
Mr Foster said the bridge was designed to have the "delicacy of a butterfly". "A work of man must fuse with nature. The pillars had to look almost organic, like they had grown from the earth," the world-renowned British architect said in an interview with regional daily newspaper Midi Libre.
Like Concorde and the Channel Tunnel, the bridge is Franco-British. French construction group Eiffage - that built the Eiffel Tower - financed the project in return for the right to collect receipts from a bridge toll for 75 years.
*Lifted from news.bbc.co.uk. Here's the website of the bridge.
posted by Pon @ 7:15 PM
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6 Comments:
ganda! para siyang set ng futuristic o fantasy movie
are these actual pics of the finished structure, or computer rendering lang?
This bridge design seems to be very popular nowadays. There are about 3 bridges here in Florida that look the same but none of them are at that height.
The bridge doesn't appear to have an efficient or innovative transportation system incorporated into its design (like a monorail or even a light rail). so unless we develop cars that run on alternative fuels, the bridge may ultimately serve as a monument to man's over-dependence on fossil fuels. it may look progressive, but to me it is just a relic of a fading era of "plenty."
woohoo!!! go raymond go!!! herald of sustainability issues and environmental concerns =D but it's true, we should be thinking of alternative forms of transport because cars that run on gas are evil!!! (okay, not that i don't drive...) and yes, ben, that bridge design is very commonplace. recycled maybe. phooey.
kb: i think it's a real pic. na-inaugurate na e :)
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