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The 25 cables front cord 60 mm are closed and six rear cord also closed 145 mm. Reinforced concrete was used for counterweights, for supports of the hydraulic systems and also in the 18 cells that support the pile caps. Finishes used in asphalt, and granite white paint in areas that link the bridge to the docks.
- Dublin, Ireland
The designer, Santiago Calatrava Arquitects & Engineers, together with the local engineering firm Roughan & O’Donovan, made the shape of the pylon and its cables as to evoke the image of the national symbol of Ireland: the harp.
The bridge (re)presents the city as an archive, suggesting that the structure has an inherent connection to the past and that of the future. The weaving of past and present is formally (re)presented as a constructional device in the form of the woven mesh framework of structure and structural skin. The notion of shadow (re)connects the bridge ...
The Samuel Beckett bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 123m over the Liffey. Designed by Santiago Calatrava in conjunction with Roughan O’Donovan (Dublin); the bridge was built by Graham Hollandia Joint Venture Contractors.
- Graham Hollandia Joint Venture
- Steel
- Santiago Calatrava
- Cable-stayed (swing)
Samuel Beckett Bridge isn’t the first swing bridge designed by Calatrava. Mixing together Calatrava’s style and the traditional Irish harp to create a landmark structure of unmistakable modernity with a unique character, would provide a symbol at the maritime gateway of Dublin.
Architect Santiago Calatrava was the lead designer of the bridge. [2] He was assisted with the civil and structural aspects of the design by Roughan & O'Donovan consulting engineers. [4] This was the second bridge in the area designed by Calatrava, the first being the James Joyce Bridge, which is further upriver. [5]
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