The proposed Laguna Garzón Bridge between Rocha and Maldonado in Uruguay. Designed by architect Rafael Viñoly to calm traffic and minimise the impact on the sensitive ecosystem of the lake beneath, it’s described as a ‘lagoon within a lagoon, observatory, tourist attraction and fishing spot’.
The bridge will replace an existing, seasonally hazardous two-car raft connecting the counties.
Ronan F writes:
Expresso van feeling the squeeze, (French) pressed underneath the Quincentenary Bridge in Galway [yesterday] evening.
Above: The World Trade Center in 1970; Sears Tower in 1970) Chrysler Building in 1929, New York Times Building in 1903, Manhattan Bridge in 1909; San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in 1933; the Empire State Building in the early 1930s and Brooklyn Bridge in 1883.
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The sumptuously animated tale of two friends who embark on a project to build a rickety bridge over a huge chasm. Made by Carl Beauchemin, Thomas Chrétien and David Forest of Lightning Boy Studio in Montreal.
Ciaran McGrath tweetz:
Out for a frosty run on the Royal Canal yesterday, by the new bridge.
Gary Byrne writes:
The View from the Beacon Sandyford [Co Dublin] yesterday evening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6qtea27LPg#t=20
London’s newest movable footbridge, designed by Knight Architects and constructed by AKT Engineering spanning 20 metres of the Grand Union canal at Merchant Square on the waterfront development of Paddington Basin, opened to the public this month.
Five counterweighted steel beams of different height that open and close on hydraulic jacks.
Oh.
Karl writes:
“Over the M50…”
The official naming ceremony of the Rosie Hackett Bridge in Dublin will take place at 3pm today and it will be open to the public tomorrow.
For the day that’s in it.
Ms Hackett was the only woman present at Liberty Hall, at the printing of the 1916 proclamation.
In her own words – from an interview that Ms Hackett did with Donncha Ó Dúlaing in ‘Women of the Revolution’, which was first broadcast on April 12, 1971 and is now on the RTE Archive – she said:
They hadn’t much type like, you know, their type was short and they had to patch it up, do you see, and like of course again, they worked all night, do you see, making, doing to The Proclamation, you see. But when I went in there was three men in the printing, where the machine was, in the machine room. And one man walked over and shook hands with me, congratulated me. I was the first that was allowed in to the printing, like during The Proclamation being done. And Madame [Countess Markievicz] herself was kicking up a row because she wasn’t let in. So there was nobody let in and I was only let in with the messages.
A Bridge for Rosie Hackett, Lifelong Activist for Women Workers (RTE Archive)
Previously: Build A Bridge, Guys
Pics: Dublin City Council and Old Dublin Town
