Vietnam’s Bà Nà Hills, which attracts over 2.7 million visitors annually, is home to many popular tourist attractions. These include the world’s longest non-stop single track cable car, a replica French medieval village complete with a faux castle, and the perfectly manicured Thien thai gardens. However, none are as exquisite as the newly-built Cau Vang (Golden Bridge in Vietnamese) pedestrian bridge, which opened to lớn the public in June 2018.
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Designed to lớn evoke the feeling of treading on a shimmering thread, the 490-foot-long, eight-section pedestrian walkway sits 4,600 feet above sea level, offering visitors stunning views of the surrounding mountainscape and the resort town below. However, what makes the Cau Vang bridge, which took a year khổng lồ build, chất lượng is the two massive hands holding the structure. Though they appear to lớn be crafted from ancient weathered stone, the palms are made using steel meshes and fiberglass.
“It creates a walkway in the sky, among the foggy and fairy-like lands of Bà Nà mountain,” said Vu Viet Anh, the head designer at TA Landscape Architecture who constructed the bridge. The architect told Dezeen.com the design was inspired by the "world of gods, giant things and living things."
While Anh had hoped his vision would resonate with visitors, even he is surprised at the amount of attention the golden bridge is garnering worldwide. Not one to lớn rest on his laurels, the architect is already busy designing a “sister” bridge – meant to lớn resemble a silver strand of God’s hair that will connect lớn the sparkling gold strand.
The Cau Vang bridge follows a recent trend of unusual footbridges that have been sprouting up across the world. Among them is London’s fan Bridge, a hydraulic structure that resembles a traditional Japanese fan. Unveiled in 2014, the artistic installation is only mở cửa to the public for limited hours on Wednesdays, Fridays, và Saturdays.
Also intriguing is the Lucky Knot Bridge in Changsha, China. The 606-foot-long loop of three interconnected red pedestrian walkways was inspired by ancient Chinese knotting folk art and the infinite structure of the Möbius band — a nonorientable surface with one side & one boundary.
A new footbridge held up by two giant hands has just opened near domain authority Nang in Vietnam, the latest in a line of weird & wonderful structures around the world
A golden bridge held up by two enormous stone-coloured hands has opened in the bố Na hills, near da Nang in central Vietnam. It is the latest in a series of statement footbridges around the world. Cau Vang (meaning gold bridge) opened in June, is 150 metres long và 1,400 metres above sea level, with views across the green mountainscape. It took just under a year lớn construct, with initial designs by TA Landscape Architecture.
The bố Na hills mountain retreat was a favourite holiday location for the ruling French authorities in the early 20th century but fell into ruin after the revolution against colonial rule in 1945. The area is now trang chủ to a replica French village và gardens, along with a 5.8km cable car track – once the world’s longest and highest – as well as a cavernous concrete amusement complex, hidden beneath the kitsch-looking village. Remnants of the original villas have been spotted by travellers riding the cable car.
Cau Vang follows in a line of unusual footbridges, seen everywhere from Iowa to India: structures that are noteworthy as architectural statements in themselves, rather than accessories for an already popular location.
In 2014, the fan Bridge was unveiled in Paddington Basin in London. It currently only operates Wednesdays and Fridays at noon and Saturdays at 2pm, leaving it somewhere between the practical và the artistic. The hydraulic structure, designed by Knight Architects, positions its five steel beams đôi mươi metres across the water, rising in a similar way to lớn a traditional Japanese fan.
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Fan Bridge at dusk, Paddington Basin, London. Photograph: Alamy
The nearby Rolling Bridge (operating Wednesdays và Fridays at noon and 4pm) unfolds its octagonal structure on one side of the canal towpath to form a walkway 12 metres across the water. It was created by Heatherwick Studio và installed in 2004 as a “sculptural object”.
A 185-metre loop of three interconnected red footbridges khung Lucky Knot bridge in Changsha, China, which opened in 2006. Designers Next Architects, were inspired by Chinese knotting folk art & the infinite structure of the Möbius strip.
Lucky Knot bridge in Changsha, China. Photograph: Imaginechina/Rex/Shutterstock
At the opposite kết thúc of the công nghệ scale are the sustainable footbridges made by the Khasi people from living, natural resources in the gorges of Meghalaya, north-west India. The living root bridges are deep in the tropical forest, close khổng lồ village of Mawsynram, the wettest place on earth. The most famous, the Umshiang Double Decker Living Root Bridge, took 15 years lớn craft into its current form. The practice itself is thought to be 180 years old, with the bridges built from rubber tree roots nurtured for years to lớn hold human weight. This material is a preferable alternative khổng lồ wood here, which decays during the monsoon season.
Parting the sea might sound lượt thích an impossible act but how about building a permanent pathway through water? The Moses Bridge in the village of Halsteren, in North Brabant, Netherlands, acts like a dam under the waterline, holding the moat on either side. The “sunken” bridge, crafted from pre-treated, rot-resistant wood, was designed by Ro & Ad Architects khổng lồ provide access to lớn a 17th-century Dutch fort.
Moses Bridge, Halsteren, the Netherlands. Photograph: Alamy
Decades of lovers have transformed a once relatively unremarkable-looking bridge in Serbia, now known as Most Ljubavi – one of the earliest versions of a love bridge. Legend has it that Nada, a teacher, would meet her army officer lover Relja on the bridge khổng lồ pledge their love – but he left her during the first world war and she subsequently died of a broken heart. It is thought lớn have become famous thanks lớn a poem, Prayer for Love, written by Desanka Maksimović in the 1990s. Couples now visit the “Bridge of Love” to lớn attach inscribed padlocks to lớn it. The practice for good luck in love now takes place on bridges around the world.
The modern, tubular Webb Bridge connects in Melbourne’s South Wharf with the Docklands area, và was designed by sculptor Robert Owen and engineered in 2003 by Arup – the company behind the Sydney Opera House. Also by Arup, the Helix Bridge in Singapore is a spiralling 300-metre DNA-inspired design from Cox architecture, which completed the Marina bay walkway in 2010.
Helix Bridge, Singapore. Photograph: Phung Huynh Vu Qui/Getty Images
Best visited after dark to see its glowworm appearance, Henderson Waves, undulates through Singapore, connecting Mount Faber Park to lớn Telok Blangah Hill Park. The 274-metre snake-like structure is made up of Balau wood và curved steel “ribs” which form shelters in its upward curves.
Another delight for dusk, is the High Trestle Trail Bridge in Iowa, which runs half a mile over the Des Moines River Valley. As part of a “rails to trails” project, it helps connect the 25-mile trail from Woodward khổng lồ Ankeny. The illuminated steel beams represent a view through a mine shaft, reflecting the coal mining history of the local area.
