Stunning Places

Aurland Lookout was designed by Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen. We won first prize to in an invited competition in 2002. This project is part of a national program on tourist routes commissioned by the Norwegian Highway Department. The pictures actually say more than a thousand words. [Source]

This is a wildlife bridge in the Netherlands. Wildlife bridges are designed to help animals cross busy highways in safety. They don’t just protect wildlife from being hit by cars - they also connect fragmented habitats and help populations intermingle and breed. The Netherlands is leading the way in designing these bridges. The country is home to more than 600 similar crossings. [Source]

The history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia. Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture in the 15th century. [Source]

Pulteney Bridge crosses the River Avon in Bath, England. It was completed by 1774, and connected the city with the newly built Georgian town of Bathwick. Within 20 years of its construction, alterations were made that expanded the shops and changed the façades. By the end of the 18th century it had been damaged by floods, but it was rebuilt to a similar design. Over the next century alterations to the shops included cantilevered extensions on the bridge's north and south faces. [Wiki]

The Pont Alexandre III is an arch bridge that spans the Seine, connecting the Champs-Élysées quarter and the Invalides and Eiffel Tower quarter, widely regarded as the most ornate, extravagant bridge in Paris. The bridge was built by the engineers Jean Résal and Amédée d'Alby and inaugurated in 1900 for the Universal Exhibition. The bridge, with its exuberant Art Nouveau lamps, cherubs, nymphs and winged horses at either end, was built between 1896 and 1900. [Wiki]

The Pont Neuf is, despite its name, the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. Its name, which was given to distinguish it from older bridges that were lined on both sides with houses, has remained. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was the heart of medieval Paris.
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The Assut de l'Or Bridge is a suspension bridge, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava, and fully completed in December 2008. The bridge is located in central Valencia, Spain, in its City of Arts and Sciences complex, which also includes a science museum ,a marine park, and an opera house. [Wiki]

Urban design and landscape architects west 8 has sent us images of the recently completed 'garden of 10,000 bridges', a project conceived for the 2011 xi'an international horticulture exhibition in china. the design explores the notion of poetry and narratives through a winding pathway that oscillates from ground level to a raised span. [Source]

Topmost and largest Suspension Bridge In Nepal. Villagers in Parbat district of Nepal couldn't believe when they first heard about this bridge that would connect district headquarter to rest of its VDCs through 344 meters long Kusma-Gyadi suspension bridge above 135 meters. After all, seeing is believing. Everyone benefited from this bridge specially the local commuters. Hours of walk is now reduced to few minutes. [Source]

The Bridge of Sighs (is a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and was built in 1602. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge name, given by Lord Byron in the 19th century, comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells. [Wiki]

The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France. The arch, carved out by the Ardèche River, is 60 m wide and 54 m high. It is usually described as the natural entrance to the Ardèche Canyon. It is a very popular canoeing and kayaking area and is heavily visited by tourists. [Wiki]

This suspension bridge grim and unstable aspect is in Kungur, a Russian city of 68,000 inhabitants located on the banks Sylva River, near the Ural Mountains. [Source]

The Weave Bridge will connect Penn Park with the existing Recreation and Athletic Facilities south of Hollenback Center. The bridge will allow pedestrians to cross the Amtrak rail lines to reach the Hollenback Center and the fields to the south, both during the reconstruction phase of the South Street Bridge and beyond. [Source]

The Rolling Bridge is a type of curling movable bridge completed in 2004 as part of the Grand Union Canal office & retail development project at Paddington Basin, London. The bridge consists of eight triangular sections hinged at the walkway level and connected above by two-part links that can be collapsed towards the deck by hydraulic cylinders. [Wiki]