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This article reports that in the quintessential Dutch landscape of the Haarlemmermeer district, southwest of Amsterdam, Santiago Calatrava has designed three bridges over the Hoofdvaart Canal. Named for musical instruments — the Harp, Cittern, and Lute — each is a deftly sketched variation on a structural theme. In the changing environment of this rapidly developing area, the bridges will soon become urban landmarks. The bridges rise out of the flat landscape, dramatically piercing the Dutch sky. Cables and masts draw bold geometric forms in the air.

Focuses on the pedestrian bridge designed by architectural firm Carme Pinos Studio in Alicante, Spain. Synthesis of land and man-made structure.

Chronicles the project to renovate the vaulted space beneath the Manhattan approach to the Queensboro Bridge, called the New York Bridgemarket. Respect for the integrity of the 19th-century bridge; Focus on the bridge and its Guastavino vaults while aiming to create commercial and civic spaces. INSETS: The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company.;Guastavino's Restaurant.;Technical challenges..

Says Piano, "A bridge is not a wall, bridges are unifying. Also included is an interview with Renzo Piano, a Genoa native and the architect of the San Giorgio Bridge, Polcevera's replacement, which opened to traffic a year ago. [Extracted from the article]

Describes the design of the Four Continents Bridge, in Hiroshima, Japan, designed by SITE Projects, Inc. The walkway is divided into four zones of natural vegetation, each representing a microcosm, the climate of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Details.

The article presents news related to new constructions in Great Britain. The latest cultural adornment to a 2.1-million-square-foot mixed-use development in the Paddington region of West London(West London) is a pedestrian bridge that is as much mobile sculpture as engineered structure. Spanning the mouth of a small dock off the Grand Union canal, the Rolling Bridge rests steady for foot traffic, but opens for boat navigation by curling upward and onto its one fixed support, like a scorpion's tail. Since completing his studies in 3D design at Manchester Polytechnic and later the Royal College of Art in London, 34-year-old Heatherwick has adeptly blended art, architecture, engineering, and product design in his work.

The article discusses the design of the replacement for the Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles, California, by architect Michael Maltzan and the firm HNTB.

In spite of its diverse practice, London, England-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects has solidified its reputation internationally as a designer of spectacular bridges. Its Floral Street Bridge at Covent Garden is a fraction of the scale of its award-winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge spanning the Tyne River, but just as powerful. Because the bridge spans a mere 30 feet across an unassuming street in London's Covent Garden, one would assume that the program would call for a modest functional footbridge connecting the back sides of two buildings.

The article discusses the development of architect Peter Zumthor's proposed redesign of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles, California. Details are provided on Zumthor's idea for a single-story building, elevated off the ground, made of black concrete and featuring a bridge to Wilshire Boulevard. The author goes on to describe the influence of the city of Zumthor's design.

This article offers a look at the lighting design installed by Sylvain Bigot at the Langeais Suspension Bridge over the Loire River in France. The bridge connects the town of Langeais to the municipality of Chapelle-aux-Naux since 1849. Bigot used blue atmospheric lighting and bold shadows to highlight the bridge's form and texture. He won the job in May 2006, and realized the design six months later. To pick out the five decks suspended between the bridge's four reinforced-concrete towers, Bigot installed 150 blue, single-watt LEDs on the decks' sides.

The article describes the architectural drawings of architect Jesse Reiser for two bridges. The red pencil drawing, Geodetic Studies of the Footbridge at Alishan, Taiwan, reveals an interest of Reiser since his boyhood days in the work of Sir Barnes Wallace, the English engineer who applied geodetic construction principles to aircraft design. Reiser is also fascinated with the human form, shown both in that sketch and the pen-and-ink wash, Study for Fenchichu Bridge and Station, Alishan, Taiwan.

The article features the 360-view offered by the Station Bridge of Bridgehouse that connects Middleburg's downtown to its outlaying areas in the Netherlands. The architects say the green glass relates to the copper roof of a nearby abbey and that they saw the project as an urban folly on the Walcheren canal.

The article features the weblike bamboo bridge that leads off Los Angeles, California's Silver Lake Boulevard. The work of Workshop Levitas, the bridge, created with advanced design tools and eco-effective materials, aspires to the collaborative's mission of exploring the built world from a perspective of lightness. Delicate in appearance yet robust in character, the structure does, indeed, appear to defy gravity. The bridge transverses the Materials & Applications' courtyard.

Presents news briefs concerning the field of architecture in the U.S. as of November 2005. Creation of a Snowflake for holiday season in New York City by lighting designer Ingo Maurer; Information on the lighting for the Breast Cancer Awareness in Boston, Massachusetts; Revitalization of the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis, Mississippi.

The article reports that Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign to redesign part of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which was damaged severely in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, has sparked a controversy over one of the most expensive and technically challenging bridge projects in the United States history. A plan to rebuild the bridge's eastern span, which extends for almost 2 miles, calls for replacing it with a viaduct, known as the "skyway," that connects with a self-anchored suspension bridge, which has yet to be built, Schwarzenegger and other legislators hope to prevent further delays and cost overruns by extending the skyway instead of building the suspension bridge.

The article reports on the architect Frank Gehry's sinuous BP Bridge at Chicago's new Millennium Park in Illinois. The year's first major snowfall brought attention to the bridge. City officials closed the 925-foot span for several days in January before carefully clearing a path. Shoveling is possible along the bridge, but the Brazilian hardwood surface requires delicacy. The broad acclaim for Gehry's distinctive designs seems to bring equal scrutiny for every minor glitch.

Reports on the reconstruction of the Millennium Bridge, a pedestrian suspension bridge in London, England. Use of a lateral suspension system with no vertical support; Initial problems encountered by the architect and the engineer for the bridge; Approval of test prototypes for the bridge.

Reports on the closure of the Millennium Bridge in London, England on June 12, 2000, two days after pedestrians felt the bridge sway and bounce during its official opening. Companies involved in the bridge's design and engineering; Reason why the bridge wobbled; Tests conducted to re-create the June 10 conditions.

Reports on the federal appeals court's decision rejecting opposition to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge near Washington, D.C.

Discusses the design of the bridge connecting Costa Mesa, California's South Coast Plaza and Crystal Court shopping centers designed by Kathryn Gustafson. Structure's mimicry of a bird in flight; Stroll section; shaded benches; Outriggers suggestive of the bird's outstretched wings; Strata Garden attached to South Coast Plaza as a figurative tableau.

Reports on the reconstruction of the 1961 John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge. Hiring of lighting designers Horton Lees of New York City to light the centerspan arch structure; Description of the lighting concept.

Describes the Wabasha Bridge, a collaborative design project by sculptor James Carpenter's Design Studio, engineer Jorg Schlaich of Stuttgart, Darrel Berkowitz of TKDA Engineering of St. Paul and Sverdup Corp. of St. Louis. Details of design; How the design was chosen; More.

Describes the clear-span pedestrian bridge designed by Wolf+ to connect a park and parking structure in California. The bridge is based on Buckminster Fuller's `tensegrity' principles.

Offers a look at two bridge projects designed to handle heavy traffic. One is the Rainbow Bridge expansion by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer and URS Consultants; The second is the Free Bridge, by Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects.

Reports that Kennedy Violich Architects of Boston is studying the design of temporary pedestrian bridges to use at construction sites. The Interim Bridges Project (IBP) is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).