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    Wild Water Crossings: 14 Bold & Crazy Bridge Concepts

    Article by Steph, filed under Public & Institutionalin the Architecture category.

    Pedestrian Bridge

    Not exactly your average skybridge, the winning proposal for the

    Building to Building Pedestrian Bridge Challengeis a shape-shifting

    helix that responds to the movements of the people walking across it.

    Made of flexible tensile materials, the bridge shifts as tension isapplied to various points.

    Inflatable, Jumpable Bridge for Paris

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    Why just walk across a regular pedestrian bridge when you could

    bounce across an inflatable one? This concept by Paris-based studio

    AZC creates an urban playground that aims to bring city dwellers back

    to a state of pr imal happiness, of ancestral times when body andspirit were essentially free.

    Garden Bridge Over the Thames by Thomas Heatherwick

    The Thames River would get a new elevated park in the form of a

    sculptural pedestrian bridge in this concept by Thomas Heatherwick.

    The design has been selected by Transport for London to become a

    reality, forming a new public green space for the city of London.

    Too Crazy for a Bridge Design Competition?

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    This concept for a Rotterdam Bridge by Bureau SLA turns a road into

    scissor-like blades that rise up to allow ships to pass. But according to

    competition officials, its just too crazy.A spokesperson said, The

    citys engineers still cannot believe it. This is too difficult, surely this is

    madness! The best thing to do and be done with the whole

    conundrum is to disqualify the entry.

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