Showing posts with label Bridges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bridges. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
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Are you afraid of bridges? I wouldn’t blame you if you were. While most bridges we see and travel across on a regular basis are soundly engineered and reasonably safe, not all bridges are alike.
Bridges go far beyond the sturdy structures you drive across each day. And some of the world’s most dangerous bridges (not to mention scariest-looking ones) were intended for foot traffic. That’s what we’re going to explore here. But more specifically, we’re going look at hanging foot bridges — you know, the kind that leave you dangling above a rushing river, gorge, or some other bit of nature you wouldn’t want to come face to face with on a fall. Before we take a look at some of the most dangerous bridges in the world, let’s explore some of the basics about these rope-style hanging bridges,
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Ghasa Bridge is a suspension bridge on the south side of the Annapurna circuit. It was created out of necessity and in hopes of eliminating the congestion in Ghasa town due to herds of animals constantly being walked up and down the narrow roads.
09. U Pain Bridge.
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U Pain Bridge, one of the favorite spot of Mandalay’s Thingyan festival goers, was found jammed packed with visitors all over during the holidays of Thingyan Water Festival. Especially under bridge, visitors found themselves enjoying food at make-shift temporary “floating” restaurants. The stall were selling coconut juice, Beer-like Palm liquor, Beers, all kind of hard liquors and variety of Burmese traditional snacks and salads.
08. Monkey Bridges, Vietnam.
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It may seem that only monkeys could make it across traditional monkey bridges—after all, they’re typically made of a single bamboo log and one handrail. However, the name comes from the stooped monkey-like posture you have to maintain when crossing, so as not to plunge into the river below.
Where: Various points across the Mekong Delta at the southern tip of Vietnam.
Stats: These bridges are built by hand by local residents and vary from town to town. Newer ones are made of concrete.
07. Midday Pick Bridge (Pont de l'Aiguille du Midi), France.
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This bridge connects the two rocks. Midday Pick a small bridge over the length, but due to the height at which it is located (3842 meters above sea level), seems to be endless and terribly dangerous, especially for those who are afraid of heights. Deliver tourists to the bridge on the cable car. The bridge is an excellent viewing platform of the massif of Mont Blanc, with his very visible peaks of France, Switzerland and Italy. Bridge Pont de l'Aiguille du Midi - one of the main attractions of the western part of the Mont Blanc massif.
06. Thrift Bridge, Canton Bern, Switzerland.
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The longest and most terrifying suspension bridge in Europe. Built in 2004, the energy company for maintenance work on the glacier Thrift, and in 2009 renovated. During the reconstruction of the cable car system was reinforced bridge, then the bridge was opened to public access, and immediately became a place of pilgrimage for travelers seeking thrills. The bridge has a length of one hundred seventy meters, a width of one meter and is situated on an altitude of about a hundred feet above the lake Thrift. Bridge at walking shakin that adds excitement. Although architects and assure that the bridge is safe, that it can withstand winds of up to 200 km / h and a mass of snow and 500 tons of Thrift Bridge opened only in calm weather. Perhaps the organizers of these trips over the bridge spare feelings and the vestibular apparatus tourists. From the bridge of Thrift Bridge offers spectacular views of the Alps and even on the part of Italy.
05. Suspension Bridge, Canopy Walk, Ghana.
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Kakum National Park has walking paths, bridges or rather, from which you can explore the wildlife from above. The most famous bridge Canopy Walk. This bridge was completely gossip from ropes, has a length of more than three hundred meters and a height of about forty meters. To pass through it, the person is not to be fear height. In addition, the bridge is very narrow, and it can go on just one person, counter travelers categorically excluded. A narrow wooden plank so much wobble in the air that rope fence in the growth of the person does not give a sense of security.
04. Suspension bridge over the River Capilano, North Vancouver.
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Capilano built in 1889. This bridge has a height of 70 meters and a length of 337 meters, is located in the evergreen forest near Vancouver over the river. The bridge is a rather precarious construction - cedar strips are connected by steel cables and much shaking when walking on them. With the opening of the bridge are great views of the nature of Canada, which, in spite of strong instability of the bridge, it attracts a lot of tourists.
03. Rope Bridge Carrick-a-Rede, Northern Ireland.
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This is popular with tourists bridge near the town of Ballintoy in County Antrim. Cable bridge was built by local fishermen. Initially the bridge railing was only on one side. When he became popular with thrill-seekers, the National Trust of Ireland slightly upgraded bridge, providing it with the second-row railing. In the entire history of the bridge Carrick-a-Rede there were no cases of falling from it, the bridge is absolutely reliable. But despite this, the transition across the bridge so extreme as some travelers who are able to cross it in one direction, do not dare start the return journey, but prefer a ferry boat. The height of the rope bridge nearly thirty meters above the rocks, the length of twenty meters.
02. Bridges of vines in the Iya Valley, Japan.
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On the island of Shikoku, the smallest island of Japan, there are three exotic bridges woven from vines over the river Iya-gawa. They were originally made ??of wooden planks that are fastened together with vines. Now fortified strong wire bridge and railing, but that does not make it less extreme. The fact that the bridges swing when walking, as in the good old days.
01. Hanging Bridge Hussaini, Pakistan
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Oh, and, finally, the most dangerous suspension bridge in the world. This suspension bridge Hussaini (Pakistan). Hussaini bridge over the River Hunza has a lot of gaps between the planks, and some boards are absent altogether, and the bridge has a rather impressive amplitude of oscillation. In addition, some starting rope bridge rot. The bridge is very old, but the local population is still successfully uses this crossing of the river, and it attracts tourists who want to get a little adrenaline.
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Commissioned by the Province of Friesland, Oak (Onix and Achterbosch Architecture) has developed a road bridge that connects 2 districts of Sneek on either side of the A7 motorway. The bridge was designed for a municipality that wished to establish a new city marker along the motorway. Framework The Department of Public Works, the user of the bridge, stated that it wished to use more wood in its constructions.
We regarded it as important to elaborate the wooden bridge in such a way that it would be both recognizable and new to Sneek. The contours call to mind the traditional cheese-cover farmhouses of Friesland; the construction evokes reminiscences of the building expertise that it still abundantly present in the old city; the wooden beams reflect the shipbuilding industry, with Sneek as the water recreation city par excellence in the North Netherlands. All these aspects led to the first uncovered wooden bridge in the heaviest load class. This bridge is not only a novelty for the Netherlands but also for countries such as Canada, Norway and Switzerland where the covered bridge is a well-known feature. The bridge consists of Accoya wood, an acetylated type of wood that has been produced in a factory in Arnhem for around one year now. The acetylation of wood is a process that makes wood almost imperishable. The design of the bridge is a fusion of infrastructure, construction, art and architecture. As a component of the renewed A7 motorway, the wooden bridge was envisaged at two positions.
The second wooden bridge will be realized in 2010. The interface of the A7 with the inner city is thus defined for the motorist, for whom, when on the motorway, the bridge is a city marker. For passers-by crossing over the motorway, it is a gateway between the inner city and the suburbs. Besides motorized traffic, pedestrians and cyclists also make use of the bridge. The two wooden trusses have been coupled together at the centre to ensure stability. The arched form arose by optimizing the cross-section of the bridge for traffic. In conjunction with the triangular structure of the framework, this offers surprising visual perspectives. The bridgehead on the suburb side is a green dike element, whereas on the inner-city side it is a concrete span that bridges a waterway. The bridge was created as the result of an intensive and integrated design process. In consultation with the client, we were able to compile a team of professions and critics who made it possible to realize the bridge. The bridge was built by a contractor from the town of Schwäbisch Hall in southern Germany, where the tradition of producing half-timber houses, and also bridges, is well known. The bridge is the first wooden constructed bridge in a high traffic class. The first of it’s kind in the whole world. OAK Architects: Haiko Meijer, Alex van de Beld, Hans Achterbosch. More Images.
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The Ringvaart (known in full as Ringvaart of the Haarlemmermeer Polder) is a canal in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. The Ringvaart (Dutch meaning “ring canal”) is a true circular canal surrounding the Haarlemmermeer polder and forms the boundary of the Haarlemmermeer municipality. Ringvaart is also the name of the dike bordering the canal.
Near Roelofarendsveen, the Ringvaart crosses the A4 Highway by means of an aqueduct. It was built in 1961, making it the oldest aqueduct in the Netherlands. In 2006, construction was completed of two new portions: on the east side for crossing new north-bound lanes for the expanded highway; and on the west side for the new HSL-Zuid high-speed railway. The new aqueduct is 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) long.
The Ringvaart is used for commercial and recreational boat traffic. A portion of it forms part of the sailroute from Hollands Diep to the IJsselmeer, passable for ships with masts over 6 meters (20 ft) tall.
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