Forum: Photography


Subject: Photography Forum Challenge - October 2010 - "Bridges"

Meisiekind opened this issue on Oct 08, 2010 · 138 posts


makron posted Sat, 23 October 2010 at 10:58 AM

Princes Bridge of Spain, [1] better known as La Salve bridge is a bridge over the estuary of Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain.

Its opening was held on January 9, 1972 and its author was the engineer John Batanero. It was designed in the late sixties, to solve the traffic problem, which began to saturate in the north of the city. He was also the first in Spain with bracing system and one of the few with steel deck. Is 23.5 meters in height for the passage of ships, being fixed. It is equipped with lifts from its base in the hamlet of La Salve, at the end of the Campo de Volantín. Along with this bridge, on the left bank of the river, is the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. It is also curious to see how the architect of the museum wanted to integrate, in a sense, this bridge in the same building, for this purpose and on his left side, as viewed from the Campo de Volantín, a tall tower with access stairs Museum, which is on the right.