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It is a cable-stayed bridge, whose main structure consists of 25 straps front and 6 rear, with a runway of 124 meters long, 27 meters wide and a single pylon 40 feet tall. The cross section of the board is a box girder with cantilever ribs on each side that can accommodate four lanes of traffic. Its total weight is 5700 tonnes.
- Dublin, Ireland
The bridge was named after Samuel Beckett, Nobel Laureate, to complement the sister bridge, James Joyce, located up stream. It is an asymmetric cable-stayed bridge with a length of 123 m and a span of 95 m, having two pedestrian and cycle tracks, two traffic lanes and two lanes dedicated to buses.
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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 ...
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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 constructed the abutments, river pivot pier and the roadworks.
