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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:17 -0700

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Puente de la Mujer (Women's Bridge), a rotating footbridge spanning 170-meters across Dique № 3, was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and opened on December 20, 2011. Both a Cantivlever spar cable-stayed bridge and a swing bridge, it is unusual in its asymmetrical arrangement--a single mast with cables suspends a portion of the bridge which rotates 90 degrees on a white concrete pylon, allowing vessels to pass, in less than two minutes.

Tokyo - Odaiba: Teleport Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:40:57 -0700

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Baltimore - Inner Harbor: Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:09:49 -0700

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A cable-stayed pedestrian bridge connects two Piers 3 and Piers 6 near the National Aquarium at Inner Harbor.

Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:00 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:02 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:09 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:13 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:00:05 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:59:41 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:59:48 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:59:37 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Puerto Madero: Puente de la Mujer

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:59:52 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Recoleta: Beautiful Bridge #1

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:03:07 -0700

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A curved concrete pedestrian bridge, crossing Avenida Presidente Figureoa Alcorta, was originally designed in 1960 by architects César Janello and Silvio Grichner and engineer Atilio Gallo to provide access to la Exposición del Sesquicentenario, but demolished the following year. The current version of the bridge, Beautiful Bridge #1, was rebuilt in 1978 by Swiss artists Lang/Baumann (L/B, Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann) under the project of Bridges & Borders, curated by Sigismond de Vajay.

Buenos Aires - Recoleta: Beautiful Bridge #1

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:02:52 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Recoleta: Beautiful Bridge #1

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:02:47 -0700

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Buenos Aires - Recoleta: Beautiful Bridge #1

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 10:02:56 -0700

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Denver - LoDo: Commons Park - Platte River Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:11:59 -0700

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The Platte River Bridge, a cable-stayed pedestrian bridge spans the South Platte River connecting Commons Park and the Commons west Apartments along the former 16th street viaduct. The bridge, the second of three new pedestrian bridges to link Northwest Denver with Downtown, opened in 2004. Its white color and vertical masts mimic the appearance of its larger neighbor, the Millennium Bridge.

The South Platte River is one of the two principal tributaries of the Platte River, forming in Park County, Colorado. It joins the North Platte River in western Nebraska to form the Platte, which then flows across Nebraska to the Missouri.

Commons Park sits along the banks of the Platte River, on the historic site long recognized as the birthplace of Denver. For years, the site sat as a brownfield property until Mayor Wellington Webb created the South Platte River Corridor Project, including commercial, residential and recreational redevelopment along the South Platte River.

Denver - LoDo: Commons Park - Platte River Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:12:08 -0700

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Tokyo - Odaiba: Teleport Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:40:53 -0700

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NYC - Brooklyn - Sheepshead Bay: Ocean Avenue Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (wallyg) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:59:11 -0800

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The Ocean Avenue Bridge is a wooden pedestrian bridge spanning Sheepshead Bay from Emmons Avenue and East 19th Street (one block east of Ocean Avenue) to Manhattan Beach.

In 1880, railroad tycoon, banker, developer and Manhattan Beach Hotel proprietor, Austin Corbin built the first bridge here--a simple wooden drawbridge. Corbin initially kept the bridge closed to keep "undesirables"--particulary Jews and gamblers from the new racetrack--out of his development and ultimately tore it down. Others built it back, and a cycle of demolition and reconstruction ensued. In 1881, New York's Commission of Highways ruled that the bridge was a public highway, and the Supreme Court issued an injunction against tearing it down again.

After the State abolished gambling in 1910, and the Manhattan Beach Hotel was demolished in 1911, developers began replacing the resorts with moderate-income housing. Bait and tackle shops sprang up, and those who didn't board the day boats for deep-sea fishing excursions could set up rod for shallower catch along the bridge.

The current version of the bridge was built, along with Sheepshead Bay's piers, by WPA reconstruction in the 1930s. It used to be lit by mini-versions of the old Belt Parkway "woodie" poles; faux "bishop crook" fixtures were installed in the late 1990s.

In 1998, a group of residents advocated a fishing ban off the bridge.
The fishing community protested, and although casting is now prohibited, it still remains a popular spot for urban anglers.