Infrastructure

The new London Cable Car / Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Analysis / Solution / System,Building on the water,City Space,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,FUNCTIONAL,Green Project,Harmony With The Context,Infrastructure,Landmark,Public Facilities,SOLUTION,Steel,STRUCTURAL,SUSTAINABILITY,Travel,USABILITY,ViewPointJuly 20, 2012No comments

The infrastructure was designed by London-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects, and the Emirates Air Line cable car will lift passengers up to 90 metres above theriver Thames as they travel the 1.1km route between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks…

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Banqiao MRT footbridge / AMBi studio

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Bridge,Circulation,City Space,Exotic Idea,Footbridge,FUNCTIONAL,Harmony With The Context,Infrastructure,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,MATERIALS USED,Pedestrian / Street,Public Facilities,SOLUTION,Steel,Step / Stair,STRUCTURAL,SUSTAINABILITY,Travel,USABILITYJuly 19, 2012No comments

Designed by Taiwanese Architects – AMBi studio,This is Public infrastructure’s undulating steel body is dictated by the user’s experience, accentuating views towards points of interest in the encompassing urban landscape while helping pedestrians safely traverse xian-min road…

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Sheikh Zayed Bridge / Zaha Hadid Architects

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Architecture Award,Bridge,Building on the water,Concrete,Famous / Popular / Great / World : Building,Featured,FUNCTIONAL,Harmony With The Context,Infrastructure,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,MASS & SHAPE,SCALE & SIZE,SOLUTION,Steel,STRUCTURAL,SUSTAINABILITY,Travel,USABILITYJuly 17, 2012No comments

Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, about a half-mile long, this bridge connects Abu Dhabi Island to the mainland. The shape is a sine wave, a series of undulating curves that soar almost 200 feet above the water. From the perspective of motorists on the structure’s eight-lane highway, the massive steel waves form a parade of spectacular monuments…

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Kurilpa Bridge / Cox Architecture

Posted by DesignalmicPosted in Activity / Multipurpose Area,Architecture Award,Bridge,CANTILEVERED,Deck / Terrace / Plaza,Editor's Picks,Featured,Footbridge,Infrastructure,Landmark,LIGHTING EFFECTIVE,SOLUTION,STRUCTURALDecember 13, 2011No comments

Kurilpa Bridge is the world’s largest structure to be based upon the principles of ‘tensegrity’, the term coined by Richard Buckminster Fuller to describe a system of balanced compressive and tensile forces.The architecture that this structure…