RIALTO BRIDGE MAP
RIALTO BRIDGE MAP Crossing Grand Canal, Venice Designer/Engineer Antonio da Ponte Completed 1591 Span 89 feet (27 meters) Material Marble Type Arch The Rialto is the most beloved bridge …
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NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY ARCHES
NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY ARCHES From wilderness trail to modern parkway, the historic Natchez Trace has witnessed a colorful procession of humanity over the centuries. Hernando de Soto, Andrew Jackson, …
WHIPPLE BOWSTRING TRUSS BRIDGE MAP
WHIPPLE BOWSTRING TRUSS BRIDGE MAP Crossing Normans Kill Ravine, Albany, New York Designer/Engineer Squire Whipple Builder Simon DeGraff Completed 1867 Length 110 feet (34 meters) Materials Cast and wrought …
MILLENNIUM BRIDGE MAP
MILLENNIUM BRIDGE MAP The first horizontal suspension bridge is also the first to cross the Thames in over a century. Presiding over the pantheon of contemporary architects, Norman Foster …
BLOEDEL DONOVAN BRIDGE MAP
BLOEDEL DONOVAN BRIDGE MAP Darius Kinsey, the Ansel Adams of the logging industry, shot the Pacific Northwest’s wooden bridges. The railroad revolutionized bridge building. By the 1850s, when the …
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE MAPS
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE MAPS Communities everywhere are championing bridges designed for the sole enjoyment of those on foot or on wheels. A genre of their own, pedestrian crossings have influenced …
STRAUSS MUSEUM
STRAUSS MUSEUM No city is more attentive to its past composers than Vienna, and among the municipal museums the one dedicated to that prototypical Viennese, Johann Strauss the younger …
MICHIGAN AVENUE BRIDGE MAP
MICHIGAN AVENUE BRIDGE MAP This innovative bridge transformed a desolate street into the “Magnificent Mile. ” As part of their expansive 1909 Plan of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, Edward H. …